“Songs of a Little Child’s Day”
At the Farm
At the Farm
Short, fun, and quite challenging!
Singing octaves leaps and octaves that step down.
Description
- Grade: First
- Origin: Emilie Poulsson, Eleanor Smith
- Key: D Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: AaBCD
- Rhythm: advanced: | ta ti/ ri ta ta | ti/ ri ta ta ta |
| ta ti/ ri ta (ta) | ta ti ti ta ta | ti ti ti ti ta (ta) |
| ti/ ri ti/ ri ti ti ti (ti) | - Pitches: advanced: Do Re Mi Fa So La Te Ti Do Re
- Intervals: advanced: Do\Do descending tonic octave leap, Mi\Do, Do/Do ascending tonic octave leap, La\Fa, Fa/La, Do\La, La/Re, Do/Do descending tonic octave by steps, lowered 7th
- Musical Elements: notes: quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; rests: quarter, eighth; lowered 7th (Te), tempo: pomposo/grand dignified, dynamics: forte/loud, mezzo forte/medium loud, fortissimo/very loud, decrescendo; poco ritardando, ad libitum (make-up cockle)
- Key Words: barnyard, farming, strutting, struts, proud, to and fro, farmyard, farmer, chickens, chicken coop