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"It's Raining, It's Pouring"
       
     
"It's Raining, It's Pouring"
 


"It's Raining, It's Pouring" Lyrics, Text Format



Mastering the Orff interval So\Mi with diminution.

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Description
 
  • Grade: First

  • Origin: American, US Traditional

  • Key: C Major

  • Time: 4/4

  • Form: Aa (matches the diminution, larger to smaller note values)

  • Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ti ta ti ti | ta ti ti ta |
    ti ti ti ti ri ti ti ti ti ri | ti ri ti ti ti ri ta ti |

  • Pitches: beginners: Mi So La

  • Intervals: beginners: So\Mi, Mi/La, Mi/So

  • Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth, sixteenth; pickup beat, diminution: the motif's note values are shortened

  • Key Words: nursery rhyme, raining, pouring, snoring, bumped, morning, contraction: couldn't (could not)

  • Recorder: beginners: one of the color coded Beginning Recorder Tunes

  • Keyboard: beginners: excellent three finger exercise for left, right and two hands together

 
 


"It's Raining, It's Pouring"


It's raining; it's pouring.
The old man is snoring.
Went to bed and he bumped his head,
And he couldn't get up in the morning.


 

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