Junior Cert choice songs

Category:  Irish folk Song  

Sinéad O'Connor:  She moved thru the fair

Features: free rhythm/triplet rhythm

Category: Folk Songs from Other Countries

Simon and Garfunkel:  Scarborough Fair

Features:  raised 6th/ lah mode

Category:  Historical and Modern Day Ballads

The Dubliners:  Fields of Athenry:  Written by Pete St. John


Features:  upbeat/ syncopation in melody

Category:  Pop songs, Negro Spirituals, Jazz and Blues

Michael Bublé:  Cry Me a River

Features:  blues notes (flattened 7th), syncopation

Category: Operas, operettas, oratorios, stage musicals

Castle on a Cloud: From Les Misérables

By Boublil and Schonberg



Features:  changing time signatures/ lah mode

Category:  Art Song

The Elfking by Schubert

Performed by Ian Bostridge

Based on the Danish Legend of the Elfking
19th Century Art Song
Features: 
 Minor Key
Rapidly played notes on the piano to represent the galloping horse through the woods.

Category:  Church Music and Carols

Ave Verum:  Mozart

Features:  4/4 time/ SATB chorus

Category:  2 part songs/ canons/ostinati

Song Type:  Quadlibet (Mash Up)

Title:  singin' in the Rain/Umbrella

Performed by cast of Glee

Features:  

Polyphonic texture in the chorus.  2 melodies being sung at the same time.

Syncopation in melody