I've been trying to find popular childrens songs to help teach intervals. I found this from a theory website:
m2- Stormy Weather m2
M2- Happy Birthday M2
m3- The Impossible Dream m3
So Long, Farewell from The Sound of Music
M3- Halls of Montezuma M3
P4- Here comes the bride P4
A4- Maria from West Side Story A4
P5- Star Wars P5
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
M6- NBC theme music M6
m7- Somewhere from West Side Story m7
M7- Bali Hai from South Pacific M7
Octave- Over the rainbow Oct.
I'm looking for more songs that begin with the following intervals:
m2 - Jaws theme perhaps, but many kids haven't seen this movie.
m3 -
M3
P4 -
A4
m6
M6
m7 - Most kids don't know Somewhere from West Side story
M7
Ocatave - most kids don't know Over the Rainbow
If you can help or give some ideas, let me know. Thanks.
m2 - Jaws
M2 - Happy B/Day
m3 - Greensleaves
M3 - O When the Saints
P4 - Adv.Aust. Fair, Amazing Grace
TT - Simpsons
P5 - Last Post
m6 - Love Story theme
M6 - My Bonny
m7 - Theme from Star Trek (original TV series)
M7 - haven't got one but the next interval of Over the Rainbow goes to M7 (P8, m2 down = M7)
P8 - Over the Rainbow
What a neat idea for teaching intervals!
BTW Bali Hai is an octave, unless you want to find the seventh from the first and third note.
I'm so glad this post has come up, as I've been trying to fill in a few gaps in my list. The Simpsons and Love Story are inspired! I'd like to add:
M3 While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
P4 Away in a Manger, Teddy Bears' Picnic
M6 US version of It Came Upon A Midnight Clear (fat lot of use this one is to me...)
P5 Scarborough Fair, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Chariots of Fire
The major 7th is a major pain in the butt; I'd be grateful for any more ideas on that one.
Greetings,
`butt`? Has the real English language so degenerated,
Chaucer,
Buri
Ben, great choices. I'm working on intervals in group right now. For M7, maybe it would help to think of it as leading tone as opposed to a leap initially. After they get the half-step in their heads perhaps they can jump the octave. Not as fun as "the Simpsons" in group lesson though...
K
Hey, Gregory Lee,
Thanks for sharing that with us! I'm gonna use those, definitely
For m6, My Bonny Lies over the ocean
(in the minor version)
Buri, I wanted to use ass but was feeling polite. Homework: The Miller's Tail.
Greetings,
I am relieved. Bowdlerization leaves me thwarted,
Cheers,
Buri
PS Is Polite one of the seven dwarves? I forget things in my dotage...
Yes, along with Sensitive, Caring and Really Cute - lucky old Snow White...
Gah, fairytales. I was heartbroken about Santa and the Easter Bunny, but when I learned Prince Charming was a flat character--I heard the coffin slam shut.
I can just see a demented old woman rubbing her hands at the fire in a witchy cottage, cackling at the sparkly lure she'd concocted for humanity. Thanks to that detour, I now hear demonic laughter in my stapler.
We should raise our children on level ground, like Dogen's "Mountain and Waters Sutra" or Sartre's "La Nausee," with some Nietzsche a la carte.
Then they would nail M7 every time they opened the refrigerator.
K
That might actually be funny if I hadn't found myself caught up in a family argument about what pitch the butter dish clinks in the other day. No b/s... it's C#. Repeat after me: 'It's the thin end of the wedge...'
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March 14, 2004 at 10:51 PM · I remember going over these when I was in year 11 doing music.
m2 - Jaws - Even if they haven't seen the movie, they'll know it when they hear it.
A4 - The Simpsons. First two notes form Augmented 4th (tritone)
m7 - heck, I'm a classical music student and I don't know somewhere from WEstside story.
I can't remember the rest of them, but I'll e-mail my old teacher he may be able to jog my memory.