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"Engine, Engine, Number Nine" Text Format

Excellent beginning tune for non-readers!
Excellent for beginning Orff interval So\Mi.

 

 

Description

  • Grade: Kindergarten
  • Origin: USA – Traditional
  • Key: D Major
  • Time: 2/4
  • Form: rhythm: AAAA – pitches: AAAb
  • Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti | ti ti ta |
  • Pitches: beginners: Mi So
  • Intervals: beginners: So\Mi, Mi/So
  • Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; simple rhythms, introduce/reinforce beginning Orff interval, So\Mi
  • Key Words: rhyming words: nine, line, track, back – vocabulary: engine, train, railroad, money
  • Keyboard: beginners: two finger exercise for the right, left, and, two hands together

 


“Engine, Engine, Number Nine”

 

Engine, engine number nine,
Going down the railroad line!
If the train goes off the track,
Will I get my money back?

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