April 28, 2012
TMEA Region 7
Dr. Vicky V. Johnson
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Extended Songlist
SIMPLEST PRESCHOOL SONGS
Aiken Drum
Alouette
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Bingo
Did You Ever See a Lassie
Eencey Weencey Spider
Here We Go ‘Round the Mulberry Bush
Hole in the Bucket
The Hokey Pokey
If You're Happy and You Know It
I've Been Working on the Railroad
Mary Had a Little Lamb
The Muffin Man
Oats, Peas, Beans and Barley Grow
Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be?
Old MacDonald Had a Farm
Pop Goes the Weasel
Ring Around the Rosies
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Sing a Song of Sixpence
Three Blind Mice
A Tisket, a Tasket
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
The Wheels on the Bus
EARLY SCHOOL YEARS
The Ants Go Marching
Baby Beluga
The Bear Went Over the Mountain
Clementine
Down by the Riverside
Frère Jacques
He's Got the Whole World in His Hand
Home on the Range
If I Had a Hammer
Little Bunny Foo Foo
London Bridge Is Falling Down
Michael, Row the Boat Ashore
Mister Frog Went a Courtin'
Oh Susanna
On Top of Spaghetti
Puff the Magic Dragon
Rise and Shine
She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain
Simple Gifts
Skip, Skip, Skip to My Lou
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
This Land Is Your Land
This Little Light of Mine
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Yankee Doodle
You Are My Sunshine
Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out with the crowd.
Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack,
I don't care if I never get back,
Let me root, root, root for the home team,
If they don't win it's a shame.
For it's one, two, three strikes, you're out,
At the old ball game.
Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out with the crowd.
Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack,
I don't care if I never get back,
Let me root, root, root for the home team,
If they don't win it's a shame.
For it's one, two, three strikes, you're out,
At the old ball game.
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Dorian
Phrygian
Lydian
Mixolydian
Aeolian
Pentatonic minor
Improvisation has boundaries and may include:
1. Meter
Supply an ostinato
2. Tonal center Reinforce the tonal center
3. Scale
Limiting pitches
4. Melody
Limiting deviation
5. Harmony
Prescribing harmony
We can promote successful improvisation experiences by
enforcing the boundaries
Jazz Improvisation on Piano
Explain procedure first: demonstrate each of the 3 parts. Then have students form
3 lines at the piano (low, medium & high keys)
Low part:
Middle part: Students are to play chords (3 notes at once) using only black keys.
High part: Students are to play a melody (one note at a time) using only black keys.
Reasons You Don’t Use Much Composition in Your Curriculum
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Younger children don’t have the notation skills to do it.
I wasn’t trained in teaching it.
I don’t even think I can do it myself.
Children need more basic musical experiences.
I don’t have enough time to spend on composition.
Two Tricks in Teaching Composition
1. You only need storage to allow for revision.
2. Use those specified guidelines (boundaries).
For the creative spirit, limits are useful.
-- Leon Fleisher
Composing with Limits
Catcerto
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Compositional Process
How to Compose a Simple Melody
Compose a one-measure rhythmic
ostinato; add pitch; [improvise to
ostinato]
Choose a short quote; add a value
(limiting these is helpful) to each
syllable; add pitch (limit also?)
Given rhythm cards (one measure
each), students ‘arrange’ the piece
Write a rap song (nothing negative!)
Allow students to come up with their
own notation system to ‘store’ their
piece – work in pairs with a topic
Polyrhythm
Polyrhythm
Desktop Blues
You Ain’t Nothin’ but a Groundhog
By Jeffrey B. Moran
Chorus:
You ain't nothin' but a groundhog
Sleepin' all the time.
Ain't nothin' but a groundhog
Sleepin' all the time.
You ain't never chucked wood and you ain't no friend of mine.
You said you ate dry grass. That was just a lie.
You said you ate dry grass. That was just a lie.
'Cause you eat sweet clover until the day you die.
You dig yourself a burrow for sleepin' in at night.
'Cause you eat all day 'til you can't eat another bite.
Repeat Chorus:
You eat a lot all summer so you can hibernate.
You eat a lot all summer gaining lots of weight.
Then you sleep all winter 'til it's spring and it's time to mate.
You said you had canines. That was not the truth.
You said you had canines. That was not the truth.
'Cause like every rodent you got big incisor tooths.
Repeat Chorus:
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Song Parodies
God Save the Queen
America
God save our gracious Queen
Long live our noble Queen,
God save the Queen:
Send her victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us:
God save the Queen.
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flea flee
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plea sea
ski three
bee fee
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My country,' tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride,
From every mountainside
Let freedom ring!
bring cling ding
fling king ping
ring sling spring
sting string swing
thing wing wring
zing
aside beside bride
cried decide divide
fried guide hide
inside lied outside
provide ride side
slide spied tied tried
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Limericks
There was a musician from Kent
Whose saxophone got very bent
‘Til one day in June,
He played so out of tune
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There was a fine sailor from Wales
Who on his ship played piano scales
But one day aboard
He played the wrong chord
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sales snails tails tales trails whales
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