- Grade: Kindergarten
- Origin: England – 18th-century Nursery Rhyme
- Key: C Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: ABAC
- Rhythm: advanced: | ti ri ti ti ti ti ti ta | ti ti ti ti ti ta/ | ta ti ti ta/a | ti ti ti ti ta ta | ti ri ti ti ti ti ti ti | ti ti ti ti ta/a |
| ri ti/ ti ti ti ti ti ti| syncopation
- Pitches: advanced: ti do re mi fa so la ti do – extended range
- Intervals: advanced: so\mi\do descending tonic arpeggio, do/do ascending tonic octave skip, ti\re, re\ti, ti/la, so\do, mi\do
- Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth, dotted sixteenth, sixteenth; ascending tonic octave, running eighth notes, tonic arpeggio, extended vocal range
- Key Words: world geography: England; nonsense rhyme, four, twenty, blackbirds, pie, dainty dish, king, counting house, money, queen, parlor (parlour – French), maid
Sixpence: known colloquially as the tanner, or half-shilling, a British pre-decimal coin, worth six pence, or 1/40th of a pound sterling.
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