Bossy Cow

“Songs of a Little Child’s Day”
The Farm

Introducing intervals Fa\Re and Re\Ti.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten, First Grade
Origin: Emilie Poulsson, Eleanor Smith
Key: F Major
Time: 2/4
Form: ABAB
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta | ti ti ta | ti ti ti ti |
| ta (ta) |
Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi Fa So
Intervals: beginners: So\Mi, Fa\Re, Mi\Do, Re\Ti
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; tempo: allegretto; dynamics: mezzo forte, crescendo, decrescendo
Key Words: bell sounds, milkman, cow, bossy, milk, strolling, lane, fresh

**“Bossy Cow”**

		1.	Ting! ting! tinkle ting! Tinkle ting again. Here comes Bossy Cow Strolling down the lane.

		2.	Good old Bossy Cow! What does Bossy bring? Fresh milk for us all, Tinkle, tinkle, ting!

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The Bold Snow-Man

“Songs of a Little Child’s Day”
Fair Days and Stormy

Challenging intervals with all the pitches of the major scale.

Description

Grade: First Grade
Origin: Emilie Poulsson, Eleanor Smith
Key: E Flat Major
Time: 2/4
Form: AABC
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti | ta ta | ti ti ta | ta/a |
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do
Intervals: advanced: So\Mi, Mi\Do, Do/So, La\Re, Re/Ti, Do\So, La\Re, Re/So, So\Do
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; dynamics: mezzo piano, mezzo forte, forte, crescendo, decrescendo; tempo: con expressione (with expression)
Key Words: snowman, sturdy, grand, thro’ (through), frozen, winter, bold, melting, feeble, shrank, sank, limp, lank, ’tis (it is), wept
Recorder: challenging recorder selection once the Beginning Color Coded Recorder Songs are mastered

**“The Bold Snow-Man”**

		1.	There he stood, the snow-man. Oh! the sturdy snowman. Grand and white Thro’ the night, Frozen quite. “I am bold in the cold!” Thought the snowman.

		2.	Melting stood the snowman. Such a feeble snowman! Then he shrank Till he sank Limp and lank. “Bold I’m not when it’s hot!” Wept the snowman.

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Bobby Shafto’s Gone to Sea

Complete ascending tonic arpeggio, minor sixth (m6) Do\Mi,
and an augmented fourth (A4) Fa\Ti.

Description

Grade: Second
Origin: England – Old Nursery Rhyme
Key: D Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta ta | ta ta ta/a |
| ta ta ta ta | ta/a ta/a |
Pitches: intermediate: Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do
Intervals: advanced: Mi/So, So\Do, Ti/Fa, Fa/La, La\Re, Do/Mi/So/Do ascending tonic arpeggio, Do\Mi (m6), Re/Fa, Fa/Ti8 (augmented fourth A4), Fa\Ti, Ti/Re
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter; ascending tonic arpeggio, ascending augmented fourth (Fa/Ti), descending minor sixth (Do\Mi)
Key Words: world geography: England;sea, buckles, knee, marry, bright, fair, yellow, evermore, love; contractions: he’ll (he will), he’s (he is)

**“Bobby Shafto’s Gone to Sea”**

	1.	Bobby Shafto’s gone to sea, Silver buckles on his knee. He’ll come back an marry me, Bonny Bobby Shafto.

	2.	Bobby Shafto’s bright and fair, Brushing out his yellow hair; He’s my love for evermore, Bonny Bobby Shafto!

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Bluebird, Bluebird

Diminution of a melody is the opposite of augmentation.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: Texas Folk Song, US
Key: C Major
Time: 2/2 (counted in 4/4)
Form: ABab – (diminution of AB)
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta ta ta | ta/a ti ti ti ti |
| ta/a ta (ta) | ti ti ti ti ta ta |
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La Do
Intervals: intermediate: So\Mi, Mi/So, Fa\Re, Re/Fa, Mi/Do, Do\La, Mi\Do
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; rests: quarter; vocal slur, diminution (melody is presented in shorter note values than were previously used)
Key Words: blue, bird, window, through, shoulder, tired

**“Bluebird, Bluebird”**
Bluebird, bluebird, through my window. Bluebird, bluebird, through my window. Bluebird, bluebird, through my window. Oh, Johnny aren’t you tired? Choose a little girl/boy and tap her/him on the shoulder Choose a little girl/boy and tap her/him on the shoulder Choose a little girl/boy and tap her/him on the shoulder Oh, Johnny aren’t you tired? Directions: All but one student form a circle holding hands with arms held high to make windows. All sing “Bluebird..” as the one student flies in and out of the windows. All sing “”Choose…” as the one student goes around the circle before choosing a partner. They run around the circle, returning to the own window. The selected student becomes the new “bluebird.”

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Bluebells

Easy intervals and words help to introduce complex rhythms with syncopation.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: American Jump Rope Song/Rhyme
Key: E Major
Time: 2/4
Form: Through Composed
Rhythm: advanced: | ta ta | ti ti ta | ti ti ti ti |
| ti ri ti ri | ta ti ri (ti) | ta ti (ri) ri | ta ti ri (ri) ri |
| ti ri (ri) ri ti ri (ri) ri | ti ri (ri) ri ti ti |
Pitches: beginners: Mi So
Intervals: beginners: So\Mi, Mi/So
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth, sixteenth; rests: eighth, sixteenth; running sixteenth notes, syncopation, beginning Orff interval
Key Words: months of the year, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December, cockle shells

Bluebells, cockle shells, eevy, ivy overhead.
My mother said that I was born in
January, February, March, April,
May, June, July, August,
April, May, June, July,
August, October, November, December.

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Blow Ye Winds in the Morning

Syncopation occurring on the first quarter of the second beat and
a descending minor arpeggio built from the sixth, Dm (Mi\Do\La).

Description

Grade: Fourth
Origin: USA – Sea Chanty
Key: F Major
Time: 2/4
Form: AB, verse/chorus
Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ti | ta/ ti | syncopation, | ti ti ri ti/ | syncopation | ti ti ti ti ri | syncopation, | ta/a |
Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La
Intervals: intermediate: So/Do, Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio, Mi\Do\La descending vi (Dm) arpeggio, La/Re, Fa/La, La\Mi, So\Re/So, So\Do
Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; pickup beat, syncopation on the second half of the second beat (and of 2) and the first quarter of the second beat, verse/chorus
Key Words: Americans, USA geography, Boston, New York, Buffalo, NY, New Bedford, sea song, sailors song, sea chanty, chanty, advertised, becoming a whaling sailor, whaling, running gear, whaling port, land-sharks, board, fit you out, clipper-ship, ship’s watch; contractions: you’re (you are), we’re (we are); ’tis (it is)

**“Blow Ye Winds in the Morning”**

	1.	‘Tis advertised in Boston, New York and Buffalo, Five hundred brave Americans a-whaling for to go.
		Chorus:
		Singing, blow, ye winds in the morning, And blow ye winds high-ho clear away your running gear, And blow, boys, blow.
	2.	They send you to New Bedford, that famous whaling port, And give you to some land-sharks to board and fit you out.
		Chorus
	3.	They tell you of the clipper-ships-a-going in and out, And say you’ll take five hundred whales before you’re six months out.
		Chorus
	4.	It’s now we’re out to sea, my boys, the wind comes on to blow; One half the watch is sick on deck, the other half below.
		Chorus

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Blow the Man Down

Tonic and dominate 7th arpeggios with dotted eighth and sixteenth note rhythms.

Description

Grade: Second
Origin: Sea Chanty
Key: F Major
Time: 6/8
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: advanced: | ti/ ri ti ti ti ti | ta/ ta/ |
| ti/ ri ta ti | ti ti ti ta/ | ti/ ri ti ta ti ri |
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La
Intervals: advanced: Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio, So\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio, La\Fa, Fa\Re, So\Fa\Re\Ti descending dominate 7th arpeggio, Ti/Re/Fa ascending dominate 7th arpeggio, Re/La (perfect 5th)
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth, feeling duple meter in 6/8 time, pickup beat
Key Words: sailing songs, parts of a ship, geography, Black Ball Lines, fellows, trim, preparing, aft (rear), poop (roof of the rear cabin), tinker, tailor, sights, shoemaker, sailors, aboard; abbreviations: you’ll (you will), I’ll (I will), there’s (there is)

**“Blow the Man Down”**

	1.	Come all you young fellows that follow the sea, To me way hey, blow the man down! Now pray pay attention and listen to me, Give me some time to blow the man down.

	2.	When a trim Black Ball liner’s preparing for sea, To me way hey, blow the man down! You’ll split your sides laughing such sights you would see, Give me some time to blow the man down.

	3.	Come quickly, lay aft to the break of the poop, To me way hey, blow the man down! Or I’ll help you along with the toe of my boot, Give me some time to blow the man down.

	4.	There’s tinkers and tailors, shoemakers and all, To me way hey, blow the man down! They’re all shipped for sailors aboard the Black Ball, Give me some time to blow the man down.

The Black Ballers were fast ships of the American Black Ball Line that sailed between New York, USA and Liverpool, England in the second half of the nineteenth century. When a sailor said that a man was blown down, it meant that he was knocked to the ground. Blow the Man Down is a song about the unfair treatment of sailors aboard these ships.

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Bingo

A fun tune for clapping melodic rhythms and improving memory.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: USA – Traditional Folk Song
Key: G Major
Time: 2/4
Form: ABCCcD
Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ti | ti ti ta | ta ti ti |
Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa
Intervals: intermediate: So/Do, Do\So, Mi\Do, Fa\Re, Ti\So
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; pickup beat, clapping melodic rhythm
Key Words: farmer, dog

**“Bingo”**
There was a farmer, had a dog, And Bingo was his name-o. B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O, And Bingo was his name-o.

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Big Bunch, a Little Bunch

Introducing syncopation while mastering the intervals of the tonic arpeggio.

Description

Grade: Second
Origin: Bahamian Folk Song
Key: E Flat Major
Time: 2/4
Form: ABAB
Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ta ti | ti ti ta | ta ta |
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La
Intervals: beginners: Mi/So, Mi\Do, So\Mi, Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; intervals of the tonic arpeggio, syncopation
Key Words: Bahamas, geography, Caribbean, lard-stand, bunch, wagon team, Valentine’s Day, bunch, stand, darling, roses

**“Big Bunch, a Little Bunch”**
Big bunch, a little bunch, Big bunch o’ roses, Big bunch, a little bunch, Big bunch o’ roses. Here stands my wagon team, Here stands my lard-stand, Here stands my Valentine, Here stands my darling.

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Billy Boy

Rhythm changes to match verse syllables.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: United States of America – Traditional
Key: D Major
Time: 2/4
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ti | ti ti (ta) |
| ta_ ti/ ri | | ti ti ti ti | (ta) ti ti | ti ti ta |
Pitches: intermediate: Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La Do – structured around the fifth (So) of the major scale
Intervals: intermediate: So/Do, Do\Mi, Do\So, Do\La, So\Mi, Mi/So, Fa\Re, Re\Ti, Ti/Re
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth, dotted eighth, sixteenth; rest: quarter; pickup beat, fermata, tied notes, vocal slur
Key Words: bid, bade, charming, cherry pie, courting, dimple, chin, quick’s (quick as), three, six, seven, twenty-eight, eleven, learning numbers, young, mother, wink, eye, cat

**“Billy Boy”**

		1.	Oh, where have you been, Billy Boy, Billy Boy, Oh, where have you been, charming Billy? I have been to seek a wife, She’s the joy of my life, She’s a young thing and cannot leave her mother.

		2.	Did she bid you to come in, Billy Boy, Billy Boy, Did she bid you to come in, charming Billy? Yes, she bade me to come in, There’s a dimple in her chin, She’s a young thing and cannot leave her mother.

		3.	Can she make a cherry pie, Billy Boy, Billy Boy, Can she make a cherry pie, charming Billy? She can make a cherry pie, Quick’s a cat can wink her eye, She’s a young thing and cannot leave her mother.

		4.	How old is she, Billy Boy, Billy Boy, How old is she, charming Billy? Three times six, four times seven, Twenty-eight and eleven, She’s a young thing and cannot leave her mother.

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