This tune is an update on the folk classic, "Cripple Creek." It is in Mixolydian tonality and unusual-paired meter. I use it as an acculturation and movement activity in "five." The notation and challenging dance movements appear below, which are from ...

This quarantune (a song written during the Covid-19 quarantine) is in the Freygish mode (also known as Phrygian dominant.) I actually originally wrote it in Locrian, but it didn't quite set right. This song has built in opportunities for echoing, ...

This is an updated version of the "My Mother, Your Mother" song archetype. There is built in listening, echoing, and improvisation. Lyrics Verse 1Once upon a time, there were two sheep,And mighty chatty sheep were they.Every afternoon, they'd have a ...

Use this song as an opportunity for your students to choose to be the same or different! If they want to be the same, they can simply echo your "song" (your improvised antecedent phrase). If they want to be different, ...

Most of my songs seem to be about food these days!  I use this song, amongst others, to teach how to read familiar tonic and dominant patterns in major and minor tonality. Here is the notation: ...