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"Down by the Bay" Lyrics, Text Format


Mastering the intervals of the tonic arpeggio,
with ascending and descending arpeggios and four
examples of syncopation with a very quick tempo.

 

Description

  • Grade: Fourth
  • Origin: USA – Shaker Song
  • Key: C Major
  • Time: 2/4
  • Form: rhythm: ABCD – pitches: ABCb
  • Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ri ti ti ri | syncopation
    | ti ti ti ti | ti ri ti ti ri ti | syncopation,
    | ti ri ti ri ti ti | ti ti ri ti ti | syncopation,
    | ti ri ti ti ti | syncopation
  • Pitches: intermediate: Do Mi So La Do
  • Intervals: intermediate: Do\So, So\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio, Do/Mi/So/Do ascending tonic arpeggio, Do/Do ascending tonic octave skip, Do\La, So\Mi, Mi\Do, Mi/So
  • Musical Elements: notes: eighth, sixteenth; tempo: (BPM 152), arpeggios, octave
  • Key Words: USA history, Shaker religion, USA geography: New York, sacred, Shaker dance song, jump, whirl, gather love, flowing, catch, reach high and low, reach down; abbreviation: ’round (around)
  • Recorder: Advanced: mastering intervals of the tonic triad including ascending and descending arpeggios
  • Keyboard: Advanced: mastering intervals of the tonic triad, including ascending and descending arpeggios; right, left and two hands together


“Hop Up and Jump Up”

Hop up and jump and whirl ’round, whirl ’round,
Gather love, here it is all ’round, all ’round,
Here is love flowing ’round, catch it as you whirl ’round,
Reach up high and reach down, here it is a
’round.


Movements:

Divide class into two groups. First group moves during the first two lines; second group moves to the last two lines. Each group will hop up, jump, turn around and around, then sit; the second group adds reaching up high and down before sitting.

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