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Practicing sixteenth divisions, extended pentatonic scale,
adding dance movements to known rhythms.
Description
- Grade: First
- Origin: USA – Traditional
- Key: F Major
- Time: 2/4
- Form: ABAC
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ri ti ri ti ti | ti ti ti ti |
| ti ti ta | - Pitches: intermediate: So La Do Re Mi So La – extended pentatonic scale
- Intervals: intermediate: Do/Mi, Mi/So8, So\Do, Do\La, So/Do
- Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth, sixteenth; repeated melodic rhythm patterns, stepping down from the submediant to the tonic (La-Do), adding dance movements to music
- Key Words: USA history, play-ground song, play song, chicken, fence post, dance, choose, partner, chew, gum, shoestring, broke, mule, while; contraction: shoestring’s (shoestring is)
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Chicken on the fence post, can’t dance Josey, Chicken on the fence post, can’t dance Josey, Chicken on the fence post, can’t dance Josey, Hello Susan Browny-o! |
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Choose your partner and come dance Josey, Choose your partner and come dance Josey, Choose your partner and come dance Josey, Hello Susan Browny-o! |
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| 3. | Chew my gum while I dance Josey, Chew my gum while I dance Josey, Chew my gum while I dance Josey, Hello Susan Browny-o! |
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| 4. | Shoestring’s broke and I can’t dance Josey, Shoestring’s broke and I can’t dance Josey, Shoestring’s broke and I can’t dance Josey, Hello Susan Browny-o! |
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| 5. | Hold my mule while I dance Josey, Hold my mule while I dance Josey, Hold my mule while I dance Josey, Hello Susan Browny-o! |
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Dance Instructions:
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Form a double circle with partners facing each other.
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