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"Useful"
       
     
"Useful"
 
"Songs of a Little Child's Day"
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"Useful" Lyrics, Text Format



Introducing dotted quarter and dotted eighth notes.

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Description
 
  • Grade: First

  • Origin: Emilie Poulsson, Eleanor Smith

  • Key: E Flat Major

  • Time: 2/4

  • Form: through composed

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

  • Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La Do - adding Fa to the pentatonic scale

  • Intervals: intermediate: Do/Do8, Do8\Mi, Re/Fa, Fa/La

  • Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; through composed, pickup beat, tempo: allegretto/moderately fast (98–109 BPM)

  • Key Words: character education, manners, helping hands, brings, slippers, shuts, grandma, bit, noise, errands, scampers, up, down, vows, town; possessives: father's, baby's

 


"Useful"

           
   
1.
He/She brings his/her father's slippers,
Picks up the baby's toys;
He/She shuts the door for Grandma
Without a bit of noise.
   
           
   
2.
On errands for his/her mother,
He/She scampers up and down;
He/She vows he/she would not change him/her
For all the boys/girls in town!
   
           

 

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