High & Low / Up & Down Resources

High and Low sounds can be difficult to teach to students who confuse it with Loud and Soft. I have found a few things be helpful.

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Songs

• All Through the Night
• Andy Pandy
• Animal Fair
• Apple Tree chant
• As I Walked Out One Holiday
• Baa Baa Black Sheep
• Babylon’s Falling
• Baker
• Bim Bum
• Boom Chicka Boom
• By’m Bye
• Chumbara
• Cluck Old Hen
• Cobbler Cobbler
• Creeping Creeping Little Flea
• Do as I’m Doing
• Doctor Foster
• Fishpole Song
• Friendly Beasts
• Frog Pond
• Fruit Bending Down
• Goodbye Julie
• Grand Old Duke of York
• Grandma’s Glasses
• Great Big House in New Orleans
• Ham and Eggs
• Hello There
• Hey Ho Welcome Song (based on Hey Ho Nobody Home)
• Hickety Pickety Bumblebee
• Hickory Dickory Dock
• Hop Up and Jump Up
• Hop Up My Froggy
• Hot Cross Buns (alternate melody)
• I Went to Visit a Farm One Day
• I’m Stretching Very Tall
• It Rained a Mist
• Itsy Bitsy Spider
• Jack and Jill
• List to the Bells
• Little Cabin in the Wood
• Mos Mos
• My Good Old Man
• Nine Red Horsemen
• North Wind Doth Blow
• Old King Glory
• One Cold and Frosty Morning
• Raggle Taggle Ladies
• Sailing in the Boat
• See Saw Sacradown
• Sleep Baby Sleep
• Sleigh Ride
• St. Paul’s Steeple
• Three Billy Goats Gruff
• Three Little Pigs
• Tideo
• To Stop the Train
• Two Maids Went A-Milking One Day
• Wake Me
• Wee Willie Winkie
• When Goldilocks Went to the House of the Bears
• Wind
• Wise Man Built His House
• Ya Ya We
• Yoo Hoo

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Listening Examples

• High Sounds
  • Prokofiev: Peter & the Wolf – bird (flute)
  • Mozart: The Magic Flute, Queen of the Night Aria
  • Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite: Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy
  • Léo Delibes: Lakmé – The Flower Duet
• Low Sounds
  • Prokofiev: Peter & the Wolf – grandfather (bassoon)
  •  Octobasse
  •  Paul Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – contrabassoon
  •  Ralph Vaughan Williams: Concerto for Bass Tuba and Orchestra in F Minor
  •  Pavel Chesnokov: Do Not Reject Me in My Old Age (featuring Glenn Miller)
• Both High & Low Sounds
  • Mozart: Requiem, K. 626; Confutatis
  • Handel: Hallelujah Chorus

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Visuals

• Available on this page: Animal Fair

• Available on this page: Gobble Gobble

• Available on this page: Ham and Eggs

• Available on this page: Hickory Dickory Dock

• Available on this page: Hop Up and Jump Up

• Available on this page: Hot Cross Buns

• Available on this page: Sailing in the Boat

• Available on this page: See Saw Sacradown

• Available on this page: To Stop the Train

• Available on this page: Yoo Hoo

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Handouts / Worksheets / Assessments

• Assessment – Available below

• High Low / Up Down Xylophone Handouts, Printable & Digital Visuals and Assessments – Available below

   

• High & Low Animals – Printable & Digital Visuals – Available below

• High & Low Instruments – Printable & Digital Visuals – Available below

• Available on this page: 1st Grade Up / Down Assessment

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See also

• Kindergarten Melody Lessons & Resources
• Comparatives (High/Low, Loud/Soft, Fast/Slow)
• lesson plans
• melody resources

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Extras for Plus Members

• Printable & Digital Visuals, Assessments, High Low / Up Down Xylophone Handouts (PDF)