"Songs of a Little Child's Day"
At the Farm
Introducing tempo and tempo changes.
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- Grade: First
- Origin: Emilie Poulsson, Eleanor Smith
- Key: E Flat Major
- Time: 2/4
- Form: ABCCDE
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ti | ta/ ti | ta ti ti |
| ta ta | ta (ti) ti |
- Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do
- Intervals: intermediate: So\Mi, Re/Do, Ti\So, So/Do, So\Mi, Fa\Re
- Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: eighth; tempo: allegro moderato, poco ritardando (slow tempo), a tempo (resume tempo); 1st and 2nd endings, repeat, pickup beat
- Key Words: farming, raising chickens, biddy hen, animal science, grand air, hen, cackle, queen, egg
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"The Cackling Hen"
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"Good day, my biddy hen, good day!
What does your grand air mean?
You step about so proudly,
You cackle out so loudly;
Have you been made a queen?
Have you been made a queen?" |
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"Look. look, look, look!" said biddy hen;
"Look in my nest, I beg.
I step about so proudly,
I cackle out so loudly
Because I have laid an egg!
Because I have laid an egg!" |
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