The Mulberry Bush

• Keep two dotted-crotchet pulses in each bar.
• Sustain both final dotted crotchets.

Composer: Traditional; selected published reading below

Original: Complete eight-bar melody, Sarrazin p. 158; F major uniformly up M2 to soprano G major; native alto C major.

Prepare compound metre in Lesson 24.

Notes Used: D4, E4, F#4, G4, A4, B4, D5

Notes Used: G4, A4, B4, C5, D5, E5, G5

Time Signature: 6/8 · Key: G major

Time Signature: 6/8 · Key: C major

Fingering Review

Complete music

Here we go ’round the mulberry bush,
The mulberry bush, the mulberry bush.
Here we go ’round the mulberry bush,
So early in the morning.

Practice

Source: Natalie Sarrazin, Music and the Child (2016), adapted under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, p. 158.

Performance Goal: Play the complete melody in two steady compound pulses per bar.