Musical Alphabet

Use this canon to teach students to sing the musical alphabet (ABCDEFG) forwards and backwards!
Officially a 2 part canon, you can sing in 3 parts if you don't mind consecutive 5ths!
A great way to teach the natural minor scale!
The rhythmic element 'too' can also be taught with this song.

Teaching Suggestion: Keep 'A' as the starting note to reinforce the pitch of the letter names.

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Kodály Analysis:

Musical Alphabet		Theme:	Music	Games:
Partner:		Form:	Binary	Song Type:	2 Part Canon

Scale:

Natural Minor

CSP:

A

Age:

Middle Primary - Lower Secondary

Tones:

l low finalis

ti low

Rhythm:

;

;

Melodic:

l low

ti low

;

;

;

l low

;

;

ti low

l low

;

l low

;

ti low

l low finalis

Prep:

Natural Minor,

,

ti low

MC:

Natural Minor,

Prac:

Natural Minor,

,

ti low

Source: M. McLatchey

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