Color chart for playing E8.
Alternative first beginning recorder song.
Fifth beginning recorder song.
- Grade: Kindergarten
- Origin: Traditional Round/Canon
- Key: F Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: ABCD
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ti ta ta | ti ti ta/a |
- Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La
- Intervals: intermediate: Mi\Do, So\Mi, Do/So, Do\So, So/Do
- Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; multiple part singing
- Key Words: singing in parts, 28 Language translations – Afrikaans, Albanian, Argentinean, Berber, Creole (Haitian), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, Flemish, German, Greenlandic, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese.
Same tune as Freres Jacques. |
Fourth beginning recorder song.
Third beginning recorder song.
- 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
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Second beginning recorder song.
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- Grade: Kindergarten
- Origin: England – Nursery Rhyme
- Key: C Major
- Time: 2/4
- Form: ABCD – variations on line one – So\Mi
- Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta | ta ti ti | ti ti ta | ti ti ti ti |
- Pitches: beginners: Mi So La
- Intervals: beginners: So\Mi, Mi/So, Mi/La
- Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; running eighth notes, beginning Orff/Kodaly interval So\Mi, introducing the submediant (sixth, La)
- Key Words: world geography: England; evening prayer, wishing, star, light, bright, night, might, may, tonight
- Recorder: beginners: second tune in the color coded beginning recorder songs for upper grades
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Introducing the fermata with a challenging ‘hand jive.’
▪ Grade: Second
▪ Origin: USA – Game Chant
▪ Key: G Major
▪ Time: 4/4
▪ Form: ABAB
▪ Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti | ta ti ti ta ti ti | ta ti ti ti ti ti ti |
▪ Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi
▪ Intervals: beginners: Do/Mi, Mi\Do
▪ Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; pickup beat, multiple fermatas
▪ Key Words: game song, none-sense song, sailor, meet, met, long, short, knock-kneed, bow-legged, cross-legged
▪ Recorder: beginners: grades 3-5, first Beginning Recorder Song – for setting up recorder center/station and teaching the first recorder song see: Lesson Plan
▪ Keyboard: beginners: excellent three finger exercise for left, right, and two hands at once
Color chart for playing D8.
(D above middle C)
Color chart for playing C8.
(C above middle C)
Color chart for playing B.
