Phase 1 (No literature, teaching phase only)
Phase 2
The pieces for phase 2 have three pitches; So,
Mi, & La and two rhythm complexities; two eighth notes, quarter note and
quarter rest all in 2/4 meter with treble clef.
Three
Proverbial Loves
Collins
ARS980150 SC(B)
*The Mill Wheel SC(B) or unison
*Three Childhood Chants SC(B) or unison
*Christmas Eve SC(B)
*God's Own Time Is the Best SC(B) or unison
*All Hail, Great King! unison
Phase 3
In addition to the phase 2 complexities,
phase 3 includes Do and Re, the tie, slur, beam, half note, half rest,
whole note, whole rest, fermata, and 4/4 meter)
All For One World
Collins
ARS980151 SC(B)
*Trampin' SC(B)
*Old Blue SC(B)
*Christ Was Born in Bethlehem SC(B) or unison
*What If It Snows on Christmas SSC(B)
Phase 4
Added to the three previous phases are
the dotted half note, the eighth, quarter, eighth note pattern, bass clef,
and 3/4 meter. The melodic addition is one new syllable: high Do'.
Come
All Ye Fair & Tender Ladies
CollinsARS980152
SSC(B)
*John Henry SC(B)
*To Yourself Be True SC(B)
*Go 'Way Old Man SC(B)
Phase 5 Melodic complexities added to those previously taught are La and So below
Do. Rhythmic additions are four sixteenth notes, the eighth and two
sixteenth notes, and two sixteenths and an eighth note.
There Is a Lady
Collins T90201
*Sourwood Mountain SSC(B)
*Make a Joyful Noise SSC(B)
Phase 6
In addition to the complexities in the previous phases,
Phase 4 adds Fa and Ti which completes the diatonic scale. Rhythmic
complexities include the eighth rest, the quarter note tied to the eighth
note, the dotted quarter note followed by the eighth, and the eighth note
followed by the dotted quarter as well as the anacrusis.
*Blue Jeans SSC(B)
Bingo German/Riley
U17676 SSCB
Fairest Lord Jesus Traditional/Cooper I976811 SCB
Go
Tell It On the Mountain Christmas Spiritual/Springfield S117325
SC(B)
Green Grow the Rushes, Oh
English/Suerte U97206 SSCB
He's Got
the Whole World In His Hand Spiritual/Cooper
S117695
SSCB
I Love the Lord, His
Strength is Mine Traditional/Peninger C17314
SACB
I Heard the Voice of Jesus
Say English/Collins L17798 SSCB
Life, Liberty, and the
Pursuit of Happiness Collins P47432 SSCB
Little Chilun
Spiritual/Beal S17315 SACB
Mark
Well, My Heart
Luther/Vick U117209 SSCB
Nelly Bly
Foster/Cooper U117571 SSCB
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
Spiritual/Collins S97320
Poor
Man Laz'rus Spiritual/Suerte S17675 SC(B)
Pray Tell Me, Oh, Please Tell Me
Mexican/Collins T50302 SC(B)
Ride the Chariot Spiritual/Melton S117450 SACB
Saints Bound for Heaven
Spiritual/Suerte S97560 SSCB
Saviour, Hear Me, O Gluck/Taylor
M17672
Sing Men and Sing Angels
German/Taylor U177101 SSC(B)
Teacher, Help Me Spencer
Spencer ARS980154 SSCB
Colorado Trail, The American/Lyle
U17316
Waltzing Matilda
Australian/Cooper U117451 SC(B)
When Jesus Christ Was Born
Scottish/Cooper I97679 SCB
While Shepherds Watched
Their Flocks Trad./Cooper I97680 SCB
*Wondrous Love
Southern/Collins
S97685 SC(B)
Phase 7
Finally, phase 7 includes three sounds outside the diatonic
scale; Fi, Si, and Ta, plus the following rhythmic complexities:
simple meter, compound meter, mixed meter, the dotted quarter note as the
beat unit, the triplet, the eighth tied to the sixteenth, the dotted
eighth followed by the sixteenth, the sixteenth tied to the eighth, the
sixteenth followed by the dotted eighth and the sixteenth rest. (the
literature listing follows in the next column.)
