Coral

Discovering the tonic arpeggio, excellent after Pitch Warm-up “Finding Do-Mi-So” in D Major.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: USA – Folk Song
Key: D Major
Time: 2/4
Form: AABC
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ti ti | ti ti ta | ti ti ti ti |
Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi So La – pentatonic scale
Intervals: beginners: So\Mi\Do, descending tonic arpeggio
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; eighth and quarter note rhythms, introducing the half note
Key Words: earth science, coral colors, insects, sea, sailor, ground, red, white, ocean life

**“Coral”**
O sailor come ashore. What have you brought for me? Red coral, white coral, coral from the sea. Did not take it from the ground, Nor pick it from a tree; Little insects made it in the stormy, stormy sea.

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Come on Through Miss Sally

Contrasting rhythms, syncopated and straight, and rhythmic patterns | ti ti ta | and | ta ti ti | while moving to a steady beat.

Description

Grade: Third
Origin: USA – Folk Song
Key: D Major
Time: 2/4
Form: staves: ABCD – song: AB
Rhythm: beginners: | ta/ ri ti ti | syncopation,
| ti ti ta | ta ta | ta/a | ta ti ti | – contrasting the song’s section A rhythm: | ti ti ta | with section B rhythm: | ta ti ti |, contrasting the syncopation in Section A with straight rhythms in section B
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Do La Ti Do
Intervals: intermediate: Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio, La\Do, La\Mi, Do/Do ascending tonic octave skip, La/Do8
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; syncopation, tonic octave skip, contrasting rhythms
Key Words: game song, playground song, camp song, moving to music, moving to steady beat, pull away, through, all day long

**“Come on Through Miss Sally”**
This is the way we pull away, pull away, pull away, This is the way we pull away, all day long. Come on through, Miss Sally, Miss Sally, Miss Sally; Come on through, Miss Sally, all day long.

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Come Let Us Gather

Stepping down the dominate octave So\So.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: Traditional Round, USA
Key: G Major
Time: 4/4
Form: AAB
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti/ ri ta ta | ta ta ta/a |
| ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti | ta ta ta/a |
Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So
Intervals: intermediate: Mi\Do, Re\So, So/Do, Do/Mi, Fa\Re
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth; three part round
Key Words: sacred, prayer, gather, sing, heart, spirit

**“Come Let Us Gather”**
Come let us gather now to sing, Sing from your heart, great joy to bring, Body mind spirit voice come let’s sing.

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Colorado Trail

Advanced syncopation, descending submediant arpeggio (vi, Am),
using an extended pentatonic scale.

Description

Grade: Fifth
Origin: USA – Cowboy Song
Key: C Major
Time: Common Time, 4/4
Form: Aa – verse/refrain
Rhythm: advanced: | ta/a ti/ ri | syncopation,
| ti ta/ ta/a | syncopation, | ta/a ta ta | ta/a/a/a |
| ti ta/ ta/ ti | syncopation, | ti ta/ ta ta | syncopation, | ta ta ti ta/ | syncopation
Pitches: beginners: La Do Re Mi So La Do – extended pentatonic scale
Intervals: intermediate: Mi/So (m3), So\Re (P4),
La8/Do8 (m3), Do8\So (P4), La8\Mi (P4), Do\La/Do (m3), La\Mi\Do descending submediant (vi, Am)
Musical Elements: notes: whole, half note, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; syncopation, submediant arpeggio, vocal slurs, verse/chorus
Key Words: USA history, westward expansion, USA geography: Colorado, Abilene, Texas; lover’s lament, cowboy song, morning star, rose cheeks, pretty, God, Almighty, weep, rains, winds, wail, along, lonely night, through, herd, dark, stormy night, dark sky, warm and dry, climate: abbreviation: movin’ (a moving); possessive adjective: its; contraction: I’d (I would)

**“Colorado Trail”**

	1.	Eyes like a morning star, Cheeks like a rose, Laura was a pretty girl, God Almighty knows.
		Chorus:
		Weep all you little rains, Wail, winds, wail. All along, along, along, That Colorado Trail.
	2.	Ride, all the lonely night Ride through the day, Keep the herd a-movin’ on Movin’ on its way.
		Chorus
	3.	Dark is the stormy night Dark is the sky, Wish I’d stayed in Abilene Nice and warm and dry.
		Chorus

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Cock-A-Doodle-Doo

Introducing 6/8 time, counting syncopated eighth notes, descending tonic arpeggio, and feeling duple meter in 6/8.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: Traditional English Nursery Rhyme
Key: C Major
Time: 6/8
Form: AABC
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ta ti | syncopation,
| ta/a ti | syncopation | ti ti ti ta ti | syncopation
| ta/_a/ | (_=tie)
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi So La Ti Do
Intervals: intermediate: Do/Mi, Mi\Do, Mi/So, So/Do8, So\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio (triad)
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; tied notes, 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: English rhyme, animal science, rooster call, barnyard animals, master, fiddling stick (bow), dame (wife), shoe, dance, without; contraction: doesn’t (does not); possessive: master’s

**“Cock-A-Doodle-Doo”**
Cock-a-doodle-doo! My dame has lost her shoe, My master’s lost his fiddling stick, And doesn’t know what to do. Cock-a-doodle-doo! What is my dame to do? Till master find his fiddling stick, She’ll dance without her shoes.

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Cobbler, Cobbler

Introducing half beats with eighth note divisions.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: England – Nursery Rhyme
Key: Non-Pitched
Time: 2/4
Form: by staff: AAAAAA – by phrase: AAA
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ta | ti ti ti ti |
Pitches: none
Intervals: none
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; eighth note divisions, form by line; by phrase
Key Words: world geography: England; time of day, rhyming words, cobbler, shoe, half, two, eight, stitch, up, down, crown (money)

Cobbler, cobbler, mend my shoe.
Get it done by half past two
Half past two is much too late!
Get it done by half past eight.
Stitch it up, and stitch it down,
And I’ll give you half a crown.

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Clocks – NEW

Excellent practice for reading/practicing the divisions of the beat into halves and quarters.

Description

• Grade: First (1)

• Origin: Traditional

• Key: C Major

• Time: 2/4

• Form: ABCD

• Rhythm: beginning: | ta ta | ti ti ti ti | ti ri ti ri ti ri ti ri |

• Pitches: intermediate: Do Mi So Do

• Intervals: intermediate: Do/Mi, Mi\Do (M3), Mi/So So\Mi (m3), So/Do (P4)

• Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth, sixteenth; rests: none; excellent practice for reading/practicing the divisions of the beat into halves and quarters.

• Key Words: Clock sounds, tick tock, tick, tocky, marking time, measuring time

**“Clocks”**
Big clock mark time slowly, tick-tock, tick-tock, Small clocks mark time faster, tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock And little watches mark time ticky-tocky, ticky-tocky, ticky-tocky, ticky-tocky.

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Clap Your Hands

Practicing a steady beat with body movements,
introducing the perfect fifth (P5) Do/So.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: USA – Folk Song
Key: F Major
Time: 2/4
Form: ABAC
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta | ti ti ta| ti ti ti ti |
Pitches: intermediate: So Do Re Mi So
Intervals: intermediate: Do/So, Mi\Do, Do\So
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; clapping steady beat
Key Words: clap, hands, shake, roll, flap, pat, knees

**“Clap Your Hands”**

		1.	Clap, clap, clap your hands, Clap your hands together. Clap, clap, clap your hands, Clap your hands together.

		2.	Shake, shake, shake your hands, Shake you hands together. Shake, shake, shake your hands, Shake your hands together.

		3.	Roll, roll, roll your hands, Roll your hands together. Roll, roll, roll your hands, Role your hands together.

		4.	Flap, flap, flap your hands, Flap your hands together. Flap, flap, flap your hands, Flap your hands together.

		5.	Pat, pat, pat your knees, Pat your hands together. Pat, pat, pat your hands, Pat your hands together.

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Circle ‘Round the Zero

Extending the vocal range with a circle game song.

Description

Grade: Second
Origin: USA – Traditional Playground Song
Key: G Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti ti ti (ta) |
| ta ta ti ti (ta) |
Pitches: intermediate: La Do Re Mi So La Do – pentatonic scale, more than an octave range
Intervals: intermediate: So/Do8, Do8\So, So\Mi, Mi/Do, Do\La, La/Do
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; rest: quarter, each fourth beat is a quarter rest
Key Words: playground song, circle game, front, back, side, zero; abbreviations: ’round (around), lovin’ (loving)

**“Circle ‘Round the Zero”**
Circle ’round the zero, Find your lovin’ zero, Back, back zero, Side, side zero, Front, front zero, Tap your lovin’ zero.

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Cindy

Excellent for assessing grade level beginning reading skills.

Description

Grade: Fifth
Origin: USA, North Carolina – Folk Song
Key: F Major
Time: 4/4
Form: AB – verse/refrain
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta ta | ta ta/a ta |
| ta/a/a ta | ta/a ti ti ta | syncopation,
| ta/a ta/ ti | syncopation, | ta ta ti ti ta ta
| ta ta/a ta | syncopation
Pitches: beginners: So La Do Re Mi So La – extended pentatonic scale
Intervals: beginners: So\Mi (m3), Do/So8 (P5), Mi/So (m3), Mi\Do (M3), Do\La/Do (m3), Do\So/Do (P5); distinguishing between the minor third (m3) Do\La/Do and the perfect fourth (P4, Do\So/Do)
Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, straight and dotted syncopation, pentatonic scale, verse/refrain
Key Words: USA history, USA geography: Appalachia, North Carolina, mountain music, courting song, love song, apple, passed, bite, along, needle, sew, fine, coat tails, road, ought, down south, sweet, honeybees, swarm, shapped, parlor, coolded, mortal man, mouth; abbreviations: hangin’ (hanging), ev’ry (every), contractions: she’d (she would), I’d (I would) pret’ist (prettiest), that’s (that is)
Recorder: intermediate: syncopated repeated pitches

**“Cindy”**

	1.	I wish I was an apple, A hangin’ from a tree, And ev’ry time my Cindy passed, She’d take a bite of me.
		Refrain:
		Get along home, Cindy, Cindy, Get along home, Cindy, Cindy, Get along home, Cindy, Cindy, I’ll marry you some day.
	2.	I wish I had a needle, As fine as I could sew, I’d sew that gal to my coat tails And down the road I’d go.
		Refrain
	3.	You ought to see my Cindy, She live away down south, She’s so sweet the honeybees All swarm around her mouth.
		Refrain
	4.	She took me to her parlor, She cooled me with her fan, She said I was the pret’ist thing That’s shaped like mortal man.
		Refrain

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