Take Me Out to the Ball Game -

Introducing the sharped fourth (Fi, F#) and fifth (Si, G#)
in voice and recorder.

Description

Grade: Fourth
Origin: USA – words: Jack Norworth – music: Albert Von Tilzer, 1908
Key: C Major
Time: 3/4
Form: through composed
Rhythm: beginners: | ta/a ta | ta ta ta | ta/a/a |
Pitches: advanced: Do Re Mi Fa Fi So Si La Ti Do Re
Intervals: advanced: Do/Do8 ascending tonic octave skip (x3), Do8\La (m3), So\Mi/So (m3), So\Re (P4), La\Si/La (m2), La\Mi (P4), La\Fa\Reascending (ii, Dm) arpeggio, Re/La (P5), Re\Ti (m3), Mi/So (m3), So\Fi/So (m2)
Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, quarter; tied notes, raised/sharp fourth (Fi), raised/sharp fifth (Si), ii arpeggio (Dm), octave skip
Key Words: USA sports: baseball, ball game, crowd, seeing a baseball game, rooting for the team, national pastime, peanuts, Cracker Jack®, care, never, back, home team, visiting team win. shame, three strikes you’re out, old ball game
Recorder: advanced: introducing F# and G#

**“Take Me Out to the Ball Game”**
Take me out to the ball game, Take me out to the crowd. Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack, I don’t care if I never get back, Let me root, root, root for the home team, If they don’t win it’s a shame, For it’s one, two, three strikes, your out At the old ball game. Chorus of the original Tin Pan Alley song.

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