French Cradle Song -

Introducing a dotted quarter in 6/8; ritardando and fermata,
with a new interval So\Re.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: French Folk Song (French Cradle Song)
Key: G Major
Time: 6/8
Form: AaBbAa
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ta ti | ti ti ti ta ti |
| ti ti ti ta/ | ti ti ti ti ti ti |
Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi Fa So
Intervals: beginners: Mi\Do, So\Re
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; ritardando, fermata
Key Words: lullaby, France, sleep, brother, mother, tenderly, evening, Pierrot (a stock comic character of old French pantomime usually having a whitened face and wearing loose white clothes)
Keyboard: intermediate: excellent five finger exercise for left/right and two hands at the same time.
Recorder: intermediate: wonderful exercise for mastering left hand pitches, following the color coded Beginning Recorder Songs.

**“French Cradle Song”**
Go to sleep, my dear little brother, Go to sleep, my little Pierrot; Mother will watch, tenderly near, Father will come when the evening is here, Go to sleep, my dear little brother, Go to sleep, my little Pierrot. Pierrot: a stock comic character of old French pantomime usually having a whitened face and wearing loose white clothes.

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