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"To A Snowflake"
       
     
"To A Snowflake"
 
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"To a Snowflake" Lyrics, Text Format



Introducing poco ritardando and a tempo.

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Description
 
  • Grade: First

  • Origin: Emilie Poulsson, Eleanor Smith

  • Key: D Major

  • Time: 4/4

  • Form: AB

  • Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta ta ta | ta/a ta ta |
    | ta/a/a ta | ta ta ta/ ti |

  • Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do

  • Intervals: advanced: Mi/La, So/Do, Do\La, La\Fa, Do/Do (ascending tonic octave skip)

  • Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, tempo: lightly, poco ritardando, dynamics: crescendo, decrescendo

  • Key Words: weather, earth science, seasons, winter, frosty, snowflake, lightly, floating, travel, sky, window, far, children, love, filmy, star

  • Recorder: intermediate: upper grades: excellent tune following the five Beginning Recorder Songs

 


"To A Snowflake"

           
   
1.
Oh little frosty snowflake,
So lightly floating by,
A long, long way you travel
In coming from the sky.
   
           
   
2.
Come rest upon our window;
How could you float so far?
We children love to see you,
You pretty filmy star!
   
           

 

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