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"Little Miss Muffet" Lyrics, Text Format


Syncopation in 6/8 time, feeling duple meter in 6/8 time,
introducing the raised tonic (Di), and a right hand keyboard exercise.

 

Description

  • Grade: Kindergarten
  • Origin: England – Nursery Rhyme
  • Key: F Major
  • Time: 6/8
  • Form: ABCB
  • Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ta ti | syncopation,
    | ti ti ti ti ti ti | ta/_a ti | syncopation
  • Pitches: advanced: Ti Do Di Re Mi Fa So – raised tonic Di
  • Intervals: advanced: Fa\Re, Mi\Do, Do/Fa, Re\Di/Re, Re/So (P4), So\Mi, Re/Fa
  • Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: eighth; tied notes, eighth rest, counting eighth notes, running eighth notes, raised/sharped tonic Di, C#; 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; tuffet, curds, whey, spider, frightened
  • Keyboard: intermediate: five finger exercise for right handindex or middle finger crosses over thumb to play the seventh (Ti), playing C#

tuffet – piece of furniture used as a footstool or low seat.
curds – soft, white substance formed when milk sours for making cheese.
whey – the watery part of milk that remains after the formation of curds.

“Little Miss Muffet” 

Little Miss Muffet
Sat on a tuffet,
Eating her curds and whey;
There came down a spider,
Who sat down beside her
And frightened Miss Muffet away.

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