Introducing 6/8 time, counting syncopated eighth notes, descending tonic arpeggio, and feeling duple meter in 6/8.
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- Grade: First
- Origin: Traditional English Nursery Rhyme
- Key: C Major
- Time: 6/8
- Form: AABC
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ta ti | syncopation,
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ta/a ti | syncopation | ti ti ti ta ti | syncopation
| ta/_a/
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- Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi So La Ti Do
- Intervals: intermediate: Do/Mi, Mi\Do, Mi/So, So/Do8, So\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio (triad)
- Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; tied notes, 6/8 time: eighth note receives one beat, divisions of a dotted quarter note: three eights (3 ti's), feeling duple meter (2) in 6/8: where three eights would be a triplet if the beat is represented by a dotted quarter
- Key Words: English rhyme, animal science, rooster call, barnyard animals, master, fiddling stick (bow), dame (wife), shoe, dance, without; contraction: doesn't (does not); possessive: master's
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"Cock-A-Doodle-Doo"
Cock-a-doodle-doo!
My dame has lost her shoe,
My master's lost his fiddling stick,
And doesn't know what to do.
Cock-a-doodle-doo!
What is my dame to do?
Till master find his fiddling stick,
She'll dance without her shoes.
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