Tied notes, a major seventh (Ti/La),
minor sixth (Fa\La), and syncopated rhythms in 6/8 time.

Description

• Grade: Kindergarten
• Origin: England – Nursery Rhyme, 1725
• Key: G Major
• Time: 6/8
• Form: ABAC
• Rhythm: advanced: | ti ti ti ta ti | syncopation,
  | ta/_a (ti) ti | syncopation, | ti ti ti ti ti ti |
• Pitches: advanced: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La – extended range
• Intervals: advanced: 3 perfect fourths (P4): So/Do, La/Re, Ti/Mi; Ti/La (M7), Fa\La (m6)
• Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: 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: world geography: England; Christmas, sacred, corner, eating, pie, thumb, plum, self-esteem, Christmas Pie, character education

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