• Grade: Fourth
• Origin: Ireland – Folk Song
• Key: G Major
• Time: 6/8
• Form: ABab
• Rhythm: beginners: | ta ti ta ti | ti ti ti ta ti | ti ti ti ti ti ti |
• Pitches: beginners: so do re mi so partial pentatonic scale
• Intervals: intermediate: so/do/mi/so ascending tonic (I) arpeggio (G) with repeated pitches; so\re (P4), mi\do (M3), re\so (P5), fa\re (m3)
• Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; pickup beat, syncopation, ascending tonic arpeggios, recognizing so\re and a P4 and re\so as a P5, variations in rhythm patterns to match lyric syllables
• Key Words: world geography: Ireland, United Kingdom; Saint Stephen’s Day: St. Stephen’s Day, or the Feast of St. Stephen, is a Christian saint’s day to commemorate Saint Stephen, celebrated on 26 December in the Western Church and 27 December in the Eastern Church; Wren, king of birds, although, honor, great, me lads, treat, followed, three miles, through, hedges, ditches, leaps of snow, six o’clock, morning, hunt upon, wattle brought, show up all, box, under, tuppence, penny, no harm, boys, St. Stephens’s Day; abbreviation: ‘ll (will), possessive: Stephen’s

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