Gift Selection Music for Children, Vol. II Major: Drone Bass Triads

Music for Children Vol. II Major: Drone Bass Triads, adapted by Margaret Murray, is a volume essential to your Orff teaching library. Included are songs and pieces using the full major scale. The accompaniments are founded on drone bass with the later addition of simple chords.
Contents:
Part One: Drone Bass
1. “Sleep baby sleep”
2. Seven little instrumental pieces
3. Cradle song “Hush ye my bairnie”
4. Twelve little ostinato pieces
5. Ostinati for glockenspiel
6. “Dance lassie do”
7. “Mary, Helen, Caroline”
8. Two pieces for dancing
9. “A farmer went trotting”
10. Bear dance
11. “Fabian, Sebastian”
12. “Simple Simon”
13. Ten little ostinato pieces
14. “Three blind mice”
15. Two early English poems: “O my deir hert” and “Gratitude”
16. Three pieces for glockenspiel
17. “Dormi Jesu mater ridet”
18. Proverbs and sayings
19. “O hush thee my babie”
20. “Night”
21. Three pieces for recorders
22. “Five fools in a barrow”
23. Fools’ dance

Part Two:
Triads – The Tonic and Supertonic Traids
1. “Girls and boys come out to play”
2. “I saw three ships come sailing by”
3.”Sumer is icumen in” Instrumental piece
4. Four little pieces for dancing Ostinati
5. “King Herod and the cock”
6. Two instrumental pieces
The Tonic and Submediant Triads
1. “Song for Good Friday”
2. 3 pieces for recorder and percussion
3. Ostinati for glockenspiel
4. “Gloria”