Description

• Grade: First
• Origin: Traditional English Nursery Rhyme
• Key: C Major
• Time: 6/8
• Form: AABC
• Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ta ti | syncopation,
  | ta/a ti | syncopation | ti ti ti ta ti | syncopation
  | ta/_a/ | (_=tie)
• Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi So La Ti Do
• Intervals: intermediate: Do/Mi, Mi\Do, Mi/So, So/Do8, So\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio (triad)
• Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; tied notes, 6/8 time: eighth note receives one beat, divisions of a dotted quarter note: three eights (3 ti’s), feeling duple meter (2) in 6/8: where three eights would be a triplet if the beat is represented by a dotted quarter
• Key Words: English rhyme, animal science, rooster call, barnyard animals, master, fiddling stick (bow), dame (wife), shoe, dance, without; contraction: doesn’t (does not); possessive: master’s