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Music for The Birth Day, a late 18th Century English tune collected in Yorkshire. The manuscript is available in the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library.
Key: A Major
Time signature: 2/4
Rhythms: This tune contains the following elements: and
and
and
and D.C. al Fine.
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- Course creator: Sarah Hackett
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Music for Happy Birthday.
Key: G Major
Time signature: 3/4
Rhythms: My group sight-read a new tune each week and I felt it would be useful for them to work on the rhythms contained in this tune which are: and
and
and a pause.
This tune cannot be played for profit so the music will not be made available to the general public.
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Music for the traditional tune For He's A Jolly Good Fellow.
Key: G Major
Time signature: 6/8
Rhythms: This tune contains the following elements: and
and
and an upbeat and a pause. N.B. There are also dotted crotchets tied to crotchets.
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Music for the traditional Mexican birthday tune Las Mañanitas.
Key: G Major
Time signature: 3/4
Rhythms: This tune contains the following elements: and
and
and
and
and upbeats and a pause.
To access: Only my pupils can access this course.
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- Course creator: Sarah Hackett
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Music for the traditional Polish birthday tune Sto Lat (Good Luck, Good Cheer, May You Live a Hundred Years).
Key: C Major
Time signature: 4/4
Rhythms: This tune contains the following elements: and
and
and
and a pause.
To access: Only my pupils can access this course.
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Music for the traditional English tune The Christening collected in Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, Vol. 3, 1765-72. These tunes were announced as being 'perform'd at Court, Bath, Tunbridge & all Public Assemblies'.
Key: G Minor and Bb major
Time signature: 9/8
Rhythms: This tune contains the following elements: and
with a quaver upbeat and a two semiquaver upbeat. The 2nd and 3rd parts have only
and
with a quaver upbeat.
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- Course creator: Sarah Hackett
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Music for the English jig The Happy Night collected by William Clarke, Lincoln 1770.
Key: D Major
Time signature: 6/8
Rhythms: This tune contains the following elements: and
The 1st part has triplet semiquavers followed by a crotchet.
To access: Only my pupils can access this course.
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- Course creator: Sarah Hackett