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Contrasting straight and dotted syncopation, expanding the vocal range while singing in parts, and practicing the intervals
of the tonic chord/arpeggio in voice and on xylophones.
Description
- Grade: Fourth
- Origin: Czech Republic – Folk Song
- Key: E flat Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: rhythm: AABB – phrases/song: AB
- Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta/ ti | dotted syncopation, | ti ti ti ti ti ti ta | straight syncopation
- Pitches: advanced: So Do Re Mi Fa So Do
- Intervals: intermediate: So/Do, Mi\Do, So8/Do8\So8, Mi/So\Mi, Do\So – all intervals of the tonic chord/arpeggio, E flat Major (Bb-Eb-G-Bb-Eb), or I (one)
- Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, four part round, singing in parts, verse/refrain, recognizing the intervals associated with the I chord
- Key Words: world geography: Czech Republic (formerly Czechoslovakia – now the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic), plain, gold, green, young, plainly, swiftly, flowing, river, lifted, head, spires, instead, pleasure, grand, castle, deep, shade
- Xylophones: intermediate: Letter Names Format is presented in G Major; practicing tonic chord intervals
Same song as “Above the Plain,” fifth grade, two parts.
| 1. | Above the plain of gold and green, A young boy’s head is plainly seen; |
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| A huya, huya, huyaya, Swiftly flowing river; A huya, huya, huyaya, Swiftly flowing river. |
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But no, ’tis not his lifted head, ‘Tis Ifca’s castle spires instead. |
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| Refrain | |||
| 3. | For our pleasure it was made This grand old castle deep in shade. |
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| Refrain | |||
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