Pat-A-Cake -

Introduces dotted quarter, beamed sixteenths,
a full tonic arpeggio, and uncommon intervals.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: England – Nursery Rhyme
Key: E flat Major
Time: 6/8
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: advanced: | ti ti ti ti ti ti | ti ti ti ta/ |
| ti ri ti ti ti ti ti | syncopation, | ti ti ti ta ti | syncopation
Pitches: advanced: Ti Do Re Mi Fa So Do – extended range
Intervals: advanced: Do/Mi/So, ascending tonic arpeggio, Fa\Ti, Ti/Re, Mi/So/Do8 ascending tonic arpeggio, Re/Fa, Do8\So\Mi\Do full descending tonic arpeggio, Do/Fa, Fa\Re\Ti descending leading tone arpeggio
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, eighth, sixteenth; vocal slur, 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, children’s clapping rhyme, bake, baker, cake, prick, mark, oven, baby