Practicing sixteenth divisions, extended pentatonic scale,
adding dance movements to known rhythms.
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- Grade: First
- Origin: USA - Traditional
- Key: F Major
- Time: 2/4
- Form: ABAC
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ri ti ri ti ti | ti ti ti ti |
| ti ti ta |
- Pitches: intermediate: So La Do Re Mi So La - extended pentatonic scale
- Intervals: intermediate: Do/Mi, Mi/So8, So\Do, Do\La, So/Do
- Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth, sixteenth; repeated melodic rhythm patterns, stepping down from the submediant to the tonic (La-Do), adding dance movements to music
- Key Words: USA history, play-ground song, play song, chicken, fence post, dance, choose, partner, chew, gum, shoestring, broke, mule, while; contraction: shoestring's (shoestring is)
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"Can't Dance Josey"
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Chicken on the fence post, can't dance Josey,
Chicken on the fence post, can't dance Josey,
Chicken on the fence post, can't dance Josey,
Hello Susan Browny-o!
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Choose your partner and come dance Josey,
Choose your partner and come dance Josey,
Choose your partner and come dance Josey,
Hello Susan Browny-o!
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3. |
Chew my gum while I dance Josey,
Chew my gum while I dance Josey,
Chew my gum while I dance Josey,
Hello Susan Browny-o! |
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4. |
Shoestring's broke and I can't dance Josey,
Shoestring's broke and I can't dance Josey,
Shoestring's broke and I can't dance Josey,
Hello Susan Browny-o! |
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5. |
Hold my mule while I dance Josey,
Hold my mule while I dance Josey,
Hold my mule while I dance Josey,
Hello Susan Browny-o! |
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Dance Instructions: |
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Form a double circle with partners facing each other.
- Measure 1: step to the right in front of a new partner
- Measure 2: clap hands twice (2 eighths), and clap partners hands twice (2 eighths)
- Measure 3-4: repeat measures 1-2
- Measure 5-6: repeat measures 1-2
- Measure 7: step to the right in front of a new partner
- Measure 8: pat knees twice (2 eighths), clap hands twice (2 eighths) and clap partners hands three times (2 eighths-1 quarter)
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