Introducing harmony while practicing major and minor thirds.

 

Description

• Grade: Third (3)

• Origin: United States: Tennessee Folk Song

• Key: F Major

• Time: 3/4

• Form: AB

• Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta |ta (ta) ti ti | ta/a/a |

• Pitches: beginners: Mi So La Do Re Mi So – pentatonic scale

• Intervals: beginners: Do/Mi\Do (M3), Do\La (m3), So\Mi/So (m3), La/Do (m3), So8\Mi (m3)

• Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, quarter, eighth; rests: quarter; harmony, pickup beat, pentatonic scale

• Key Words: Geography: United States; Tennessee, horses, hungry, hay, feeding horses, pony, whoa, contractions: ain’t (are not), I’m (I am), I’ll (I will), won’t (will not)

 

 

“My Horses Ain’t Hungry”