• Grade: Kindergarten
• Origin: France – Folk Song
• Key: G Major
• Time: 2/4
• Form: ABAC
• Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti | ta ta | ta (ta) |
• Pitches: beginners: do re mi fa so, stepping up and down the staff between tonic and dominant
• Intervals:  beginners: so\mi, beginning Orff interval
• Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; introducing beamed eighth notes, adding eighth notes to quarter and quarter rest, beginning five finger keyboard exercise
• Key Words: world geography: France; river, singing, flows, nature
• Keyboard: beginners: excellent five finger keyboard exercise

Extend the experience by mastering “Finding Do-Mi-So” Pitch Warm-up in G Major, prior to reading “The Happy River.”

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