“Songs of a Little Child’s Day”
At the Farm
At the Farm
Introducing tempo and tempo changes.
Description
- Grade: First
- Origin: Emilie Poulsson, Eleanor Smith
- Key: E Flat Major
- Time: 2/4
- Form: ABCCDE
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ti | ta/ ti | ta ti ti |
| ta ta | ta (ti) ti | - Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do
- Intervals: intermediate: So\Mi, Re/Do, Ti\So, So/Do, So\Mi, Fa\Re
- Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: eighth; tempo: allegro moderato, poco ritardando (slow tempo), a tempo (resume tempo); 1st and 2nd endings, repeat, pickup beat
- Key Words: farming, raising chickens, biddy hen, animal science, grand air, hen, cackle, queen, egg
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“Good day, my biddy hen, good day! What does your grand air mean? You step about so proudly, You cackle out so loudly; Have you been made a queen? Have you been made a queen?” |
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2. | “Look. look, look, look!” said biddy hen; “Look in my nest, I beg. I step about so proudly, I cackle out so loudly Because I have laid an egg! Because I have laid an egg!” |
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