- Grade: Fifth
- Origin: Mexico – Traditional
- Key: C Major
- Time: 3/4
- Form: rhythm: AAABB – pitches:ABCDd
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ta/a/a_|_a/a ta | (_=tie)
| ta ta/a_|_a ta ta | ta ta ta | ta ta/ ti |
| ta/a/a_|_a/a/a_|_a/a/a_|_a (ta) (ta) | long ties
- Pitches: advanced: melody: re mi fa so la te ti do – lowered/flat leading tone (7, te, B flat), blue note
harmony: ti do re mi fa so
- Intervals: advanced: melody: mi/so (m3), re/fa (m3), fa/la (M3), la/te\la (m2), so/ti (P4) harmony: do/mi (M3), ti/re (m3), re/fa (m3)
- Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter, first and second endings, repeat signs, harmony in thirds, singing in parts, tied notes, flat, blue note, long phrases foster breath control/support
- Key Words: world geography: Mexico; Fiesta, Cinco de Mayo, language: Spanish; celebration song, colors, song of colors, springtime, seasonal colors, colors of birds, feather colors, happy, colors of the filed, colors of the rainbow
- Recorder: advanced: introducing B flat, playing in thirds, playing in harmony, reading two part harmony, playing alone and with others, duet
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