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View Music Samples A Stormy Sail Listen to Melody
Welsh Folk Song
 
2/4 pick-up beat, tempo: andante, mode: minor, poco ritardando, G sharp, C sharp Intervals: Mi-La, Do-La, Mi-Do, Do-Mi, Re-Fa
Key: G minor, A minor,
Pitches: La Ti Do Di Re Mi Si
 
Introduces raised tonic (Di) and raised dominate (Si)
 
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View Music Samples Aiken Drum Listen to Melody
Scottish Folk Song
 
Man in the Moon - 2/4 pick-up beat Form: ABABAB Intervals: Mi-Do, Do-Fa, Fa-Re, Re-So, So-Do
Key: G Maj.
Pitches: So Do Re Mi Fa So 

A Ladie is short for a Ladle, which is a spoon.
 
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View Music Samples All Through the Night Listen to Melody
British Isles Folk Song
 
Lullaby - guardian angels, God 4/4 dotted rhythms Form: AABA Intervals: La-Do, Do-Mi
Key F Maj.
Pitches So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La 

Excellent for experimenting with dynamic levels and phrasing.
 
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View Music Samples Amen Listen to Melody
African American Spiritual
 
Christmas - 4/4 D.C. al Fine, tied notes and slurs, solo voice and chorus Form: ABCB Intervals: Do-La, So-Do, Mi-So-Mi, La-Mi
Key F Maj.
Pitches: Do Re Mi Fa So La 
 
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View Music Samples America, the Beautiful Listen to Melody
Word by Katherine Lee Bates
Music by Samuel A. Ward
 
Patriotism, character education, nation, liberty, justice, law, pilgrim, God, heroes, strife, mercy, nobleness, divine, alabaster, grace, brotherhood, majesty | 4/4 pick-up beat, dotted rhythms, octave skip, lowered tonic (De) continuous melody (no rests) | Rhythm Form: AAAA | Intervals: So\Mi/So, So\Re, Re/Re ( ascending octave skip), Mi\La, La/Re, So/Mi, So/Do, Do\La/Do, Do\So, So/Re
Key: B flat Major
Pitches: Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do Re Mi 

Tune begins in the Dorian mode, centered around the second pitch of the scale Re; note the leading tone B natural.
The words are by Katharine Lee Bates, an English professor at Wellesley College, after a trip across the US In 1893. The Hymn tune composed in 1882 by Samuel A. Ward, was generally considered the best music as early as 1910 and is still the popular tune today.
 
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View Music Samples Ash Grove, The Listen to Melody
Welsh Folk Song
 
Beautiful melody! 3/4, free flowing melody with no rests, repeat sign Form: AABA Intervals: So-Do-Mi-So, Mi-Do, Re-Fa, Ti-So, Fa-Re
Key G Maj.
Pitches: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa Fi So La
 
Introduces raised fourth, (Fi).
 
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View Music Samples Aura Lee Listen to Melody
American Folk Song
 
4/4 dotted rhythms, Form: AABa Intervals: So-Do, Re-La, La-Re
Key F Maj.
Pitches: So La Ti Do Re Mi 
 
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View Music Samples Away in a Manger Listen to Melody
Traditional Carol
 
Christmas, Lord, Jesus 3/4 pick-up beat, continuous melody (no rests) Form: ABAC Intervals: So-Re, Re-Ti, So-Do-Mi, So-Fa (7th)
Key G Maj.
Pitches:So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So 
 
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View Music Samples Barges Listen to Melody
Traditional
 
Boating, shipping, starboard (right), port (left), ocean, pirates 4/4 continuous melody (no rests) Form: AABB Intervals: Re-So, Fa-Re, So-Mi, Mi-Do, Do-So
Key C Maj.
Pitches: Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do 

Excellent advanced recorder tune!
 
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View Music Samples Big Corral, The Listen to Melody
American Folk - Cowboy Song
 
Herding cattle, round-up terms; chute, branded, snoot, britches, wrangler, chuck wagon, brute 4/4 dotted rhythms, continuous melody (no rests) Intervals: So-Do-So, Mi-Do, Re-So, So-Mi-So, So-Mi-Do (arpeggio), So-Re
Key G Maj.
Pitches: So La Do Re Mi So 
 
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View Music Samples Blow Ye Winds in the Morning Listen to Melody
American Sea Song
 
Whaling, New York, Buffalo, New Bedord (NH) 2/4 continuous melody (no rests) dotted rhythms Intervals: So-Do, Do-Mi-So (arpeggio) Mi-Do-La, La-Re, Fa-La, La-Mi, So-Re-So
Key F Maj.
Pitches: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La 
 
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View Music Samples Breezes Are Blowing Listen to Melody
Luiseno Indian Rain Chant
 
Clouds, water, raining - 4/4 continuous melody (no rests) Form: AABA Intervals: So-Re, Re-Fa, Re-So Re-Re (octave skip)

Key: C Maj.
Pitches: Re Fa So Do Re 

Dorian Mode: Built on the second pitch (Re) of the Major scale -Whole Step - Half Step - Whole Step - Whole Step - Whole Step - Half Step - Whole Step
 
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View Music Samples Buckeye Jim Listen to Melody
American Folk Song
 
4/4 Form: ABCD Intervals: Do-La, Mi-So, So-Mi, Mi-La, La-Mi, So-Do, La-Do
Key: C Maj.
Pitches: Do Re Mi So La 
 
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View Music Samples Buffalo Gals Listen to Melody
American Folk Song
 
Whimsical text - 2/2 pick-up beat Intervals: So-Do, Fa-La, So-Mi, Re-La, Fa-Re, Mi-So
Key D Maj.
Pitches: Do Re Mi Fa So La To Do 

Excellent advanced recorder tune.
 
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View Music Samples Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie Listen to Melody
Traditional Cowboy Song
 
3/4, 3 pick up beats, Phrase indicators, breath marks | Intervals:So/Do/Mi, Mi\Do, Do\La/Do, Mi\Re
Key: F Major
Pitches: So La Do Re Mi So La 

EXCELLENT for introducing harmony, and splitting the chorus. Music concepts introduced, longer musical phrases, and breath marks. Challenging lengthly phrases for greater breath control.
Singing was one of the responsibilities of the cowboy. The singing soothed the cattle and distracted them from sudden noises, causing a stampede. One of the best known cowboy ballads can also be found listed as the Cowboy's Lament or The Dying Cowboy. Based on a poem by Universalist clergyman, Edwin Hubbel Chapmin, as The Ocean Buried, a sea ballad from 1839, music attributed to George Allen. Often sung to the old tune, Hind Horne. Folklore tells us migration of sailors to the west help change the text to Bury me Not on the Lone Prairie.
 
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View Music Samples California Song, The Listen to Melody
American Folk Song
 
Geography, Sacramento, mining gold, wolves - 2/2 pick-up beat Form: ABaBCDE Intervals: Mi-So, So-Mi, So-Re, Mi-Do, So-Do, Do-Mi-So (arpeggio) So-Re, So-Mi-Do (arpeggio) Do-La
Key: D Major
Pitches: So Do Re Mi So La 
 
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View Music Samples Cotton Eyed Joe Listen to Melody
American Cowboy Song
 
2/4 repeat sign, continuous melody (no rests) Intervals: So-Do-Mi, Fa-So (7th), Mi-Do, Re-Ti, So-Mi-Do, Do-La, Mi-La
Key: F Maj.
Pitches: So Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La 
 
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View Music Samples Derby Ram, The Listen to Melody
English Folk Song
 
Whimsical song - 6/8 pick-up beat, eighth-quarter rhythm pattern, dotted rhythms, tied notes Intervals: La-Do, Do-La, So-Do, Do-Mi-So, So-Mi
Key: F Maj.
Pitches: La So Do Re Mi So La 

Excellent tune for mastering La-Do and Do-La interval!
 
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View Music Samples Dundai Listen to Melody
Hebrew Folk Song
 
Torah song - 4/4 repeat signs, dotted rhythms, Form: ABABCDCD Intervals: La-Mi, Mi-La, Do-Mi-So
Key: D minor
Pitches: La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La
 

Excellent tune for reinforcing minor modes built from the sixth (La) pitch of the major scale.
 
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View Music Samples Fed My Horse Listen to Melody
Southern Appalachian Folk Song
 
2/4 repeat sign, dotted rhythms Rhythm form: AAABC Pitch form: ABACD Intervals: Mi-So-Mi, Mi-La, Do-Mi
Key: F Maj.
Pitches: Do Re Mi So La 
 
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View Music Samples For He's A Jolly Good Fellow Listen to Melody
Traditional
 
6/8 pick-up beat, dotted rhythms,fermata, continuous melody (no rests) Da Capo al Fine, Fine | Form: AAABBBAAAB Intervals: Mi\Do/Mi, Fa/La, Fa\Re
Key: G Maj.
Pitches: Do Re Mi Fa So La 

Excellent for strengthening the vocal range of boys.
 
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View Music Samples For Health and Strength Listen to Melody
Old English Round
 
prayer, health, Lord - Two parts - two versions - 4/4 First: straight rhythms; Second: dotted rhythms Interval: So-So (octave skip)
Key: F Major
Pitches: So Ti Do Re Mi Fa So 
 
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View Music Samples Free at Last Listen to Melody
Spiritual
 
African American Civil Rights Song - God, Jesus - 4/4 first and second endings, repeat sign, dotted rhythms, syncopation, continuous melody (no rests)   Form: AABb    Intervals: Do-Mi-So (arpeggio) So-Mi-Do (arpeggio) Do-La (6th), La-Mi, So-Do
Key: F Major
Pitches: Do Re Mi So La 
 
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View Music Samples Git Along, Little Dogies Listen to Melody
Cowboy Song
 
Cowboy vocabulary: spurs, cowpuncher, dogies (cows), chuck-wagon, Wyoming - 6/8 pick-up beat, dotted rhythms patterns Form: AaAaBbCa Accidental: flat 7th Te Intervals: Do-Mi, Do-Fa, So-Do, Do-Te-So, So-Do, Fa-Te
Key: C Major
Pitches: Do Re Mi Fa So Te Do 

Excellent for introducing the lowered 7th where Ti is sung as Te. Two pages - Additional verses on second page
 
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View Music Samples Git on Board Listen to Melody
African American Spiritual
 
2/4 syncopation, pick-up beat, dotted rhythms,fermata, continuous melody (no rests) Da Capo al Fine, Fine Intervals: Mi-Do, Do-La, La-Do, Do-Mi, Do-So
Key: G Major
Pitches: So La Do Re Mi 

Underground Railroad song, later used during the civil rights movement of the 1096's. Excellent tune for mastering the distinction between Do-La and Do-So.
 
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View Music Samples Golden Slumbers Listen to Melody
17th Century Cradle Song
 
3/4 dotted half-note, slurs, tied notes Intervals: So-Mi, So-Mi, Do-La, Do-Mi, Mi-La, La-Re, Re-So, So-Ti, Re-La
Key: A Major
Pitches: Mi Fa So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So 
 
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View Music Samples Goodbye Old Paint Listen to Melody
Cowboy Song
 
Cowboy vocabulary - stir-up, bridle Geography: Montana, Cheyenne 3/4 pick=up beat, dotted rhythm Form: AABBAA Intervals: La-Do, So-Mi-Do, Do-La, So-Do, Do-Mi
Key F Major
Pitches: So Do Re Mi So La 
 
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View Music Samples Great Big House Listen to Melody
Louisiana Play Song
 
Geography, New Orleans - 2/4, grace notes, slurs Form: ABAB Intervals: Mi-So, La-Mi, So-Mi
Key: F Major
Pitches: Do Re Mi So La 
 
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View Music Samples Harvest Listen to Melody
Danish Folk Song
 
Seasons, Fall, Autumn, harvest, apples 2/4 pick-up beat, running eighth notes Intervals: Do-So, So-Mi, Fa-Re
Key: C Major
Pitches: Do Re Mi Fa So La Do 

Excellent for feeling the melody pausing on a passing tone.
 
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View Music Samples Harvest Song Listen to Melody
Danish Folk Song
 
Grain, wheat, barn, wend - 4/4 dotted rhythms Form: ABABCB Intervals: Do-So-Mi-Do (arpeggio) Do-Mi-So-Do (arpeggio) Fa-La, La-Mi, Re-Fa, So-Re, Ti-Re, Re-So
Key C Major
Pitches: Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do Re 

Excellent tune to master the Tonic Chord (arpeggio).
 
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View Music Samples Hey, Ho! Nobody Home Listen to Melody
English Melody
 
Halloween - 2/2 - counted in 4/4 - dotted rhythms, repeat sign, coda, fermata Mode: minor Form: ABC coda:A Intervals: La-Mi, Mi-La
Key: A minor
Pitches: So La Ti Do Re Mi 

Can also be taught as a round, with all sections singing the coda together.
 
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View Music Samples Hold On! Listen to Melody
African American Spiritual
 
Heaven, farming, slave work 4/4 pick-up beat, tied notes Mode: minor (w/raised 7th) Variations on a theme: La Do Mi Re Do La Intervals: La-Do, Do-Mi, Do-La, Mi-Si, Si-Mi, Mi-La, So-Mi
Key: D minor
Pitches: La Do Re Mi So Si La 

Introducing a sharped 7th in a minor scale, fifth of the major scale - So to Si. The feeling of a Major mode, before returning to minor. Note the use of pitches, in the same order, using different rhythms (variations).
 
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View Music Samples Home on the Range Listen to Melody
Traditional
 
Patriotic song of the mid-western United States. 3/4, pick-up beat, dotted rhythms | Intervals: So/Do, Mi\Do, La/Fa, So\Do, Re\So
Key: G Major
Pitches: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So 

State song of Kansas, US. Dr. Brewster M. Higley originally wrote the words in the early 1870's for a poem called "My Western Home." The music was written by a friend of Higley's named Daniel E. Kelley (1876), however the words were different, but similar. The current text is a combination of the original and versions by William and Mary Goodwin (1904), and John A. Lomax (1910).
 
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View Music Samples Hop Up and Jump Listen to Melody
Shaker Song
 
Emotions, Love 2/4 Form: ABCD Melody centered on tonic chord. Intervals: Do-So, So-Mi, Mi-Do, Do-Mi-So-Do (arpeggio) Do-La
Key: C Major
Pitches: Do Mi So La Do 

Challenging recorder tune!
 
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View Music Samples I Don't Care if the Rain Comes Down Listen to Melody
American Folk Song
 
2/4, fast paced, rest at end of each phrase Form: AABB Intervals: Do-Mi, Do-So-Mi, Mi-So, So-Do Do-Do (octave skip)
Key: C Majr
Pitches: Do re Mi Fa So Do 

Challenging advanced recorder tune!
 
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View Music Samples I Love the Mountains Listen to Melody
Traditional Round
 
Flowers, rolling hills, daffodils, fireside - 4/4 dotted rhythms, repeat sign Form: AAAB (ascending phrases) Intervals: La-Re, So-Mi, Do-Fa, Ti-So, Mi-La, Re-So
Key: F Major
Pitches: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La 
 
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View Music Samples I Want a Girl-Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad Listen to Melody
Words by William Dillion
Music by Harry Von Tilzer
 
Mothers Day, courting | 2/4, raised second (Ri) | Intervals: So\Mi, So/Do, Do\La, La/Do, Do\So, La/Re, Re\Do, Ti\So
Key: B flat Major
Pitches: Mi So La Do Re Mi 

Rhythm: intermediate
Pitch: intermediate
Popular chorus to the American Tin Pan Alley song.
Perfect addition to your boy's Tin Pan Alley favorites.
 
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View Music Samples I've Been Working on the Railroad Listen to Melody
American Work Song
 
4/4 dotted rhythms, syncopation, Introduces sharped tonic Di Intervals: Do-So, So-Do, Mi-Do, Do-Fa, Fa-Do, So-Fa (7th) Pitches: So La Ti Do Di Re Mi Fa So
Key: G Major
Pitches: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa 

Great for reading, hearing, and playing the minor tonality of the third phrase, returning to major on the last phrase.
 
Three (3) pages
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View Music Samples Ifca's Castle Listen to Melody
Czechoslovakia Folk Song
 
Four part round/canon - 4/4 pick-up beat, Rhythm Form: AABB Pitch Form: ABCC Intervals: So-Do, Mi-Do, Do-Mi, So-Do-So, Mi-So, Do-So,
Key: E Flat Major
Pitches: So Do Re Mi Fa So 

Same song as Above the Plain
 
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View Music Samples In the Good Old Summertime Listen to Melody
Words by Ren Shields
Music by George Evans
 
Strolling through New York in the early twentieth century, courting, tootsey wootsey, | 3/4, pickup beat | Intervals: So\Mi, tonic arpeggio Mi/So/Do/Mi, Do\La, Do\So
Key: B flat Major
Pitches: Mi So La Do Re Mi 

Rhythm: beginners
Pitch: beginners
Popular chorus to the American Tin Pan Alley song first published in 1902. This tune can be heard at carnivals, fairs, and from neighborhood ice cream trucks across the United States.
 
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View Music Samples Jubilee Listen to Melody
Kentucky Play Song
 
Verse, Refrain, 2/4 dotted rhythms, Rhythm Form: ABABC, Pitch Form: ABACD - Intervals: Mi-So, La-Mi, Do-La, La-Do, Mi-Do
Key: F Major
Pitches: La Do Re Mi So La 
 
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View Music Samples Let Us Sing Together Listen to Melody
Czechoslovakia Round
 
4/4 round/canon, dotted rhythms, sharped tonic (Di) Intervals: Do-Mi-Do, Do-So, So-Fa (7th), Fa-Re, Re-Ti, Ti-So, Mi-So, Re-Fa, Re-So
Key: F MaJor
Pitches: So La Ti Do Di Re Mi Fa So 

Excellent tune for introducing the raised tonic Di.
 
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View Music Samples Lonesome Valley Listen to Melody
African American Spiritual
 
Jesus, Civil Rights, 2/2, pick-up beats, tied notes, doted rhythms, triplet, syncopation- Intervals: La-Do, Do-Mi, Mi-So, So-Mi, Do-La-Do, Do-So
Key: G Major
Pitches: So La Do Re Mi So La 

Introducing a triplet, and multiple phrases starting on the second have of the first beat.
 
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View Music Samples Michael Finnigan Listen to Melody
Traditional Irish Folk Song
 
St. Patrick's Day, whiskers. chin, fishing, fat, thin, died, rhyming words- 2/4 pick-up beat Intervals: So-Do, Do-Mi-So, So-Mi, Re-Ti-Re, Re-So
Key: F Major
Pitches: So La Ti Do Re Mi So 

Michael Finnegan is an example of an unboundedly long song, which can continue with numerous variations until the singer decides (or is forced) to stop. Challenge your students to make up additional verses.
 
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View Music Samples Mr. Frog Went Courtin' Listen to Melody
American Folk Song
 
2/4 pick-up beat, tied notes - Intervals: So-Do, Mi-Do, Do-La, Mi-So, So-Mi
Key: F Major
- Pitches: So La Do Re Mi So La 
 
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View Music Samples New River Train Listen to Melody
American Folk Song
 
Counting song, 4/4, fast, Form: AABC, Intervals: Do-Mi-So, So-Mi-Do, Do-Fa, La-Mi
Key: D Major
Pitches: Do Re Mi Fa So La 

Excellent tune for older brother's and sister's to teach numbers to their siblings.
 
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View Music Samples Night Herding Song Listen to Melody
American Cowboy Song
 
Dogies (cows), 6/8, pick-up beat, dotted rhythm, tied notes, through composed, octave skips, rare interval Ti-Mi, Intervals: Do-Mi, Mi-Do, La-Do, So-Mi-So, So-So octave, Ti-Mi, La-Do-La
Key: F Major
So La Ti Do Re Mi So 

Counting eighths as one beat.
 
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View Music Samples Now We Shall A-Feasting Go Listen to Melody
Icelandic Folk Song
 
Christmas, kings, dance, minor mode, 2/4, Allegretto, poco meno mosso, fermata, dotted rhythms, tied notes Intervals: La-Do, Mi-Do, Do-Mi,
Key: G Minor
Pitches: La Ti Do Re Mi Fa 

Singing or playing a pitch for nine and a half beats.
 
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View Music Samples O No, John Listen to Melody
Traditional English Folk Song
 
Courting Song, boys and girls sections, 4/4 pick-up beat, Tempo: Giocoso (merry, humorous) and Animato (animated) Intervals: So-Do, Re-So (ascending/descending) Fa-Re, Mi-Do, Ti-So, Do-Mi, Mi-La, La-Do, Ti-So, Octave skip: So-So
Key: G Major
Pitches: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So 

As recorder tune, introduces F sharp.
 
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View Music Samples Oh, Won't You Sit Down? Listen to Melody
African American Spiritual
 
Lord, Heaven, Israel, hypocrites, Moses, 4/4, pick-up beat, call/response, verse/refrain, D.C.al Fine, syncopation, dotted rhythms, tied notes Form: AAABCBCB Intervals: So-Do, Do-Mi-Do,
Key: G Major
Pitches: So La Do Re Mi 

As a performance song, boys sing part of the Lord while girls sing the part of a visitor to Heaven.
 
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View Music Samples Old Ark, The Listen to Melody
African American Spiritual
 
Noah's Ark, 2/4, Moderato, syncopation Form: ABA Intervals: Do-Mi, Mi-So-Mi, Do-La, So-Mi-So,
Key: F Major
Pitches: Do Re Mi So La 

An excellent intermediate recorder tune for individual assignment or added to the Recorder Center/Station.
 
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View Music Samples Old Folks at Home Listen to Melody
Stephen Foster (1826-1864)
 
The official song of Florida (1935) | 4/4 | Form: ABCB | Intervals: Do/Mi, Do/Do ascending octave, Do\La, So\So, So\Mi, Re\So, So/Do, La\Fa/La
Key: C Major
Pitches: Do Re Mi Fa So La Do 

Phrase markings for breath control.
The choice of the Suwannee River, was made by Mr. Foster's brother while looking through an atlas to find river names which would match the melody, however the composer misspells the river's name: Swanee to more closely match the melody. Also know by the first line, Way Down Upon the Swanee River.
 
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View Music Samples Old Joe Clark Listen to Melody
American Folk Song
 
Nonsense dance tune, verse/refrain, 2/4 dotted rhythms, D.C. al Fine Intervals: So-Re (ascending/descending), Ti-So, Ti-Re, So-Ti, Ti-So-Ti,Key: B flat Major (see below)
Pitches: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa 

Centered around the fifth pitch of the scale this tune is written in the Mixolidian mode where the dominate tone will be Re. The Major and Minor tonalities can easily be heard sing the refrain and verse.
 
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View Music Samples On Top of Old Smoky Listen to Melody
American Folk Song
 
Smoky Mountain, courting, question/answer 3/4, pick-up beat, tied notes Intervals: Do-Mi-So-Do ascending arpeggio, La-Fa, So-Re
Key: D Major
Pitches: Do Re Mi Fa So La
 
Melody phrases end on leading tones, Re and La, dominate So and end on Do.
 
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View Music Samples Pay Me My Money Down Listen to Melody
African American Work Song
 
Sailor's song, 4/4, pickup beat, syncopation, rhythm patterns, silent down beat Intervals: So-Mi, Mi-La
Key: C Major
Pitches: Do Re Mi Fa So La 

Intermediate recorder tune, individual assignment or added to Recorder Center/Station
 
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View Music Samples Polly Wolly Doodle Listen to Melody
American Folk Song
 
Southern United States, Louisiana, verse/refrain 4/4, pickup beat Form: AA - ABAB Intervals: Mi-Do, Re-Ti-Re, Re-So, Fa-Re
Key: F Major
Ti Do Re Mi Fa So 
 
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View Music Samples Push the Business On Listen to Melody
English Singing Game
 
Dance and sing, horse, jig 6/8, pickup beat, rhythm pattern, dotted rhythms, tied notes Intervals: So-Do-So, Mi-Do-Mi, Fa-Re Form: ABCB
Key: G Major
Pitches: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa 

Game/dance instructions included.
 
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View Music Samples Railroad Corral, The Listen to Melody
Cowboy Song
 
Chuck wagon, flap jacks, herd, cinches, reins, bronco, plains, steers, chaparral, punchers 3/4, Moderato, pick-up beat, dotted rhythms Form: AABA Intervals: So-Mi, Mi-Do, Do-La, So-Mi-So, Mi-So-Mi, So-Do
Key: G Major
Pitches: Mi La So Do Re Mi So La 

Excellent tune for reading many interval skips
 
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View Music Samples Revolutionary Tea Listen to Melody
Traditional American Colony Folk Song
 
Queen of England, Colonist, tax, pence, pound, currency 6/8 pickup beat, tied notes, running eighth notes Intervals: So-Do, Re-Fa, Mi-Do, Do-La-Do, Re-So
Key: G Major
Pitches: So La To Do Re Mi Fa 

Excellent for unit on American Revolution.
 
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American Folk Song
 
Father's Day, autumn, winter, spring, angels, death, grave 2/4, pickup beat, rhythm pattern, repeat, multiple endings Form: AA/coda Intervals: So-Do-Mi-So ascending arpeggio, So-Mi, Do-La, Fi-Ra, Re-So, So-So-So ascending/descending octave
Key: G Major
Pitches: So La Do Re Mi Fa Fi So 

Alternative sacred text on second page, Introducing the accidental; sharped fourth, Fi for voice and advanced recorder; assigned or added to Recorder Center/Station.
 
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Spiritual
 
Vocal chant camp song, Jesus, sacred 2/4 syncopation Form: AABA Intervals: Do-Mi, Do-La-Do, So-Do, Do-La, So-Mi-So
Key E flat Major
Pitches: La Do Re Mi So La Do 
 
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American Ballad
 
Serpent ( pronounced sarpent), field work, scythe 3/4, pickup beat, verse/refrain, Form: AaAa Intervals: So-Do, Do-Mi, Mi-So, So-Fa, Re-So, So-Ti
Key: G Major
So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa 

scythe |sīð| noun - a tool used for cutting crops such as grass or wheat, with a long curved blade at the end of a long pole attached to which are one or two short handles.
 
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Words by Jack Norworth
Music by Albert Von Tilzer
 
Annual favorite of sports fans everywhere. Baseball, strike, ball game, crowd, Cracker Jack, home team, | 3/4, octave skip (three times), raised 4th (Fi), raised fifth (Si), stepping up the scale. | Intervals: Do/Do (ascending octave skip), Do\La, So\Mi/So, So\Re. La\Si/La, La\Mi, La\Fa, Fa\Re, Re\Ti, So\Fi/So
Key: C Major
Pitches: Do Re Mi Fa Fi So Si La Ti Do Re
 

A repeating four measure theme helps to make this through composed favorite easy to remember.
The song became one of the most popular Tin Pan Alley songs of 1908. The song is traditionally sung during the seventh-inning stretch of a baseball game. Neither Norworth nor Von Tilzer had seen a baseball game prior to composing the song.
 
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Words by Chauncey Olcott and George Graff Jr.
Music by Ernest Ball
 
Waltz, dancing, band concerts | 3/4, raised fifth (Si), natural (lowered) seventh (Te) form: AABA | Intervals: Do/Mi\Do, Ti/Mi\Ti, La/Do\La, Ti/Fa, Fa\La, Ti/Re\Ti, So/Mi, So/Do, La/Re, Mi\La
Key: G Major
Pitches: So Si La Te Ti Do Re Mi Fa 

Rhythm: beginners
Pitch: advanced intervals
First published in 1912.
Written in 1895.
 
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Alabama Folk Song
 
The Great Ship Titanic, England, sin, captain, rich, poor, lifeboat, raging sea | 4/4, pickup beat, syncopation, verse/chorus | Intervals: So\Mi, Do\La/Do, Mi/So, La\Re, Re/So, Re/Fa, Do8\La/Do8, Do8\So, So/Do8, Do8\So\Mi,
Key: D Major
La Do Re Mi Fa So La Do 

"The Titanic" has been traced to African American origins around 1915 or 1916 in Hackleburg, Alabama. The song is sung in an upbeat tone despite its subject, an example of schadenfreude on the part of African American singers.
 
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American Cowboy Song
 
4/4, pickup beat, tied notes, slurs, complex rhythm patterns Intervals: So-Do, Do-La-Do, Do-Mi, Do-So, So-Mi-Do,
Key: G Major
Pitches: So La Do Re Mi So La 
 
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African American Spiritual
 
Sacred, Lord, angels, shoes, harp 2/4 pickup beat, syncopation Form: AaAB Intervals: Do-Do ascending octave, Do-La, So-Mi-Do, Do-Mi,
Key: E flat Major
Pitches: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La Do 
 
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American Freedom Song
 
Civil Rights protest song, sacred 4/4, triplet Intervals: Mi-So, Re-Ti, So-Do, Do-Fa
Key: C Major
Pitches: Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti 
 
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