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Chapter 1 – Three-Note Songs

Singing to Memorize

01a Cinderella
United States
01b I_m Tramping
Spiritual

Improvising

The Tyger, p. 8

I Never Saw a Moor, p. 10

Chapter 2 – Pentatonic Songs

 Singing to Memorize

02a Sweet William
Britain
02b The Gallows Pole
Finland

Improvising

The Song of Hiawatha, p. 35

Cross of Snow, p. 35

Chapter 3 – Major and Minor Songs: Five-Note

Singing to Memorize

03a Rich Man, Poor Man
England
03b Erie Canal
United States

Improvising

Call and response in class, p. 78

Chapter 4 – Major and Minor Songs: Extended Range

Singing to Memorize

04a Christmas Is Coming
England
04b HaTikva
Israel

Improvising

Harmonies (Christmas), p. 120

Harmonies (All Through), p. 122

Chapter 5 – Songs in Other Diatonic Modes

Singing to Memorize

05a Don_t You Hear the Lambs (2)
Texas
Scarborough Fair
Yorkshire

Improvising

Matrix on tonic, p. 184

Matrix in Mixolydian, p. 184

Matrix in Dorian, p. 185

Chapter 6 – Major and Minor Songs with Tonic and Dominant Harmonies in Root Position

Singing to Memorize

Oh My Darling, Clementine
United States
Spanish Ladies
England

Improvising

Matrix in major and minor, p. 237

Harmonies above and below the melody

Chapter 7 – Major and minor songs with tonic and dominant harmonies in inversions

Singing to Memorize

Cockles and Mussels
Ireland
The Praties They Grow Small
Ireland

Improvising

Improvising harmonies, p. 296

Improvising harmonies, p. 297

Chapter 8 – Major and minor songs with tonic, dominant, and subdominant harmonies

Singing to Memorize

Lavender's Blue
England
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
United States

Improvising

Improvising harmonies, p. 354

Improvising harmonies, p. 354

Chapter 9 –Primary and secondary triads and dominant sevenths

Improvising

The Road Not Taken, p. 406

Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, p. 406

Matrix in Major, p. 407

Matrix with secondary, p. 407

Chapter 10 – Songs in other diatonic modes with primary triads

Improvising

There’s a Certain Slant of Light, p. 446

Music, When Soft Voices Die, p. 446

When I Was One-and-Twenty, p. 446

Chapter 11 – Chromatic Harmonies and Secondary Dominants

Singing to Memorize

Aura Lee
George R. Poulton

Improvising

Shall I Compare Thee? p. 473