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There Was An Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe

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Introducing the raised 5th (Si) in a minor tonality.

 

Description

  • Grade: Kindergarten
  • Origin: England – Nursery Rhyme
  • Key: G minor – pitched in B flat Major
  • Time: 4/4
  • Form: ABCA
  • Rhythm: advanced: | ti/ ri ta ti ta ti | syncopation,
    | ta ti ti ta/ ti | syncopation, | ti ri ti ti ti ta/ ti | syncopation, | ti ti ti ti ta | ti/ ri ti ti ti ta ti | syncopation | ti ti ti ti ta (ta) |
  • Pitches: advanced: Mi Si La Ti Do Re Mi Fa – raised dominant (F#, Si)
  • Intervals: advanced: Mi/La, La/Do, Do/Mi, Mi8\Do, Do/Fa, Fa\Re, Ti\Mi, La\Si/La
  • Musical Elements: notes: quarter, dotted quarter, eighth, dotted eighth, sixteenth, pickup beat, raised 5th (Si), minor tonality, raised dominant imitates the feeling of ending in G Major (happy)
  • Key Words: world geography: England; family, raising children, broth, bread, wrapped, soundly, bed, family members, spooky, Halloween, All Hallows Eve, sad songs

 


“There Was An Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe”

 

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.
She had so many children, she didn’t know what to do;
She gave them some broth without any bread,
Then whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.

 

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