Minding Their Mother -

“Songs of a Little Child’s Day”
At the Farm

Extending the vocal range with advanced intervals.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: Emilie Poulsson, Eleanor Smith
Key: D Major
Time: 2/4
Form: AB
Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ti | ta/ ti | ti/ ri ti ti |
| ti (ti ti) ti |
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do Re
Intervals: advanced: Fa\Re, So\Mi, Ti\So, So/Do, Do\La, La/Re, Re\So, Do\Mi, Mi/So, So\Re, Re/So, So\Do
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; rest: eighth; tempo: allegro moderato/moderately fast (97-110 BPM); fermata, pickup beat, repeat signs, 1st and 2nd endings, dynamics: mezzo forte/medium loud; syncopation
Key Words: farm animals, cat, kitten, chicken, quickly, obedient, cluck, mewed, character education

**“Minding Their Mother”**

		1.	When Mother Kitty mewed “Come here!” Her kitten quickly went. How very small that kitten was, But how obedient!

		2.	“Come here,” cluck-clucked the Mother Hen; At once her chickens went. What tiny little things they were! But how obedient!

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