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"Cock-A-Doodle-Doo"
       
     
"Cock-A-Doodle-Doo"
 


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Introducing 6/8 time, counting syncopated eighth notes, descending tonic arpeggio, and feeling duple meter in 6/8.

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Description
 
  • Grade: First

  • Origin: Traditional English Nursery Rhyme

  • Key: C Major

  • Time: 6/8

  • Form: AABC

  • Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ta ti | syncopation,
    | ta/a ti | syncopation | ti ti ti ta ti | syncopation
    | ta/_a/ | (_=tie)

  • 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

 
 

"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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