1. Hickory Dickory Dock: a popular English Nursery Rhyme and great song for students to experience the beat in a 6/8 time signature. Melodically, the tones used in the melody of this song are:  d r m f s l t d.’ The melodic line goes up at the beginning and down at the end.
2. Jack And Jill: a great song for children to feel and perform the beat in 6/8 time. This song has a range of over an octave, using the tones d r m f s l d’ r’ m’. Younger children love to act out the song. One group can sing the song whilst another group/pair does the acting of the lyrics.
3. Ring A Ring A Rosy: another great song for children to feel and perform the beat in 6/8 time. Also, in order to play the circle game, children have to learn how to skip to the beat, in a circle, holding hands. This version of the song uses the tones d r m f s l, which is a good range of notes for children.
4. Starlight, Starbright: a great song for teaching “ta” (crotchet beat) and “ti-ti” (2 quavers) and is often included as a core song in the first year of formal music education classes. It’s simplicity is perfect for young children to learn these basic rhythms. The melody uses only two tones –  “so” and “mi” which are the first two solfa names children learn in the popular Kodaly system of music education. This is the other reason it is often included in the Early Education music curriculum.
5. The Grand Old Duke Of York: an English children’s nursery rhyme, often performed as an action song. (Source: Wikipedia)
   There are different versions of the melody. Many begin with the anacrusis “Oh the Grand…”This version is simplified by simply starting the song with “The Grand…”I have also simplified the melodic line, to make it more suitable for young children.

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Hickory Dickory Dock is a popular English Nursery Rhyme.

The earliest recorded version of the rhyme was published in London in about 1744, which uses the opening line: ‘Hickere, Dickere Dock’. The next recorded version in 1765, uses ‘Dickery, Dickery Dock’.

The rhyme is thought by some commentators to have originated as a counting-out rhyme used by Westmorland shepherds in the nineteenth century.

The rhyme is thought to have been based on the astronomical clock at Exeter Cathedral. The clock has a small hole in the door below the face for the resident cat to hunt mice.
(Source: Wikipedia)

Hickory Dickory Dock  is a great song for students to experience the beat in a 6/8 time signature.

Actions can easily be made up to fit the words. Swinging the arms to the beat, like the pendulum of a grandfather clock, is one example.

The song can be repeated replacing “one” with other numbers up to twelve.

Melodically, the tones used in the melody of this song are:  d r m f s l t d’

The melodic line goes up at the beginning and down at the end. Children can add their own instrumentation eg tone blocks making TICK TOCK sound in between phrases, such as “Hickory Dickory Dock”.

Teaching Points: 6/8 metre, actions to beat, major scale, instruments, improvisation, counting, numbers.

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• Vocal mp3
• Instrumental mp3
• Instrumental with melody mp3
• Lyric Sheet PDF
• Colored Poster PDF
• Coloring Sheet PDF
• Sheet Music PDF

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