Rounds

Here is a skit idea which I have used:

Before performing "O bury me not," I apologized because one of my students was suffering from a rare disease known as echolalia. This disease causes the sufferer to imitate everyone else. We hoped that the disease would not take effect during the following number, but if it did, please bear with us. The supposed echolalia sufferer then imitated the first performer, even as far as coughing and saying "excuse me," and even so far as forgetting the words and whispering, "Do you remember the words?"

do re mi
  • Cuckoo (Mason 1845: #33, Bradford 1978: 4)
do re mi so la
  • Bow wow wow (Choksy 1981: 215, Gagne 1997, vol. 1: 24)
do re mi so la do
  • Ding dong (4-part canon with 4 ostinati) (Wyzga, vol. 3: 44)
  • Sandy's mill (Tobitt 1946: 31)
  • Tick tock (4-part canon with 4 ostinati)
    (same music as Ding dong)
    (Wyzga, vol. 3: 44)
do mi so do
  • As the moments (Taylor & Dyk 1977: 194)
  • Come, join with me (Taylor & Dyk 1977: 188)
  • Follow me (Taylor & Dyk 1977: 270)
  • Hello! Hello! (Taylor & Dyk 1977: 2)
  • Hi! Cheerily ho (Taylor & Dyk 1977: 232)
  • Join in singing hallelujah (Taylor & Dyk 1977: 42)
  • Let our voices now ring out (Taylor & Dyk 1977: 192)
  • Morning bells I love to hear (Taylor & Dyk 1977: 3)
  • Now the blacksmith's arm (exercise in counting rests)
    (Taylor & Dyk 1977: 27)
  • Past ten o'clock (Taylor & Dyk 1977: 26)
  • See the raindrops (contains quarter notes, eighth notes, and sixteenth notes)
    (Taylor & Dyk 1977: 163)
  • Swedish action song (Gagne 1997, vol. 2: 23)
  • What does the clock in the hall say? (Matterson 1969: 38)
  • Bell song (Girl Scout Pocket Songbook 1956: 13)
do re mi so do
  • Derry ding ding dasson (Taylor & Dyk 1977: 182; Brocklehurst 1968: 56)
do mi so do mi
  • Sandy McNab (Taylor & Dyk 1977: 104)
  • Sing this grave and simple strain
    (Taylor 1946: 25, Taylor & Dyk 1977: 193)
do so do re mi
  • Banbury ale (Winn 1974)
do mi so la do mi
  • Wars are our delight (Taylor & Dyk 1977: 235)
do re mi so do
  • Little Tommy Tinker (Gagne 1997, vol. 2: 22)
do re mi so do re mi
  • May the queen live long (Taylor & Dyk 1977: 24)
so do mi so
  • Day is done (Taylor & Dyk 1977: 5)
  • Ducks in a pond (Winn 1974: 197)
  • Love your neighbor (Lowe 1976)
so do re mi
  • Les clochettes (Hall 1963: 4)
so do re mi so
  • Bring the tea tray (similar to Scotland's burning)
    (Wood 1930: 36)
  • Lady, come down and see
    (Taylor 1946: 31, Taylor & Dyk 1977: 271l Brocklehurst 1968: 56)
  • Morning papers (Taylor & Dyk 1977: 26)
  • Scotland's burning (Taylor & Dyk 1977: 2)
so la do re mi so la
  • Bury me not on the lone prairie (an echo song) (available here.)
  • Old Texas (The cowman's lament) (Girl Scout Pocket Songbook 1956: 21; Brocklehurst 1968: 10)
    available on-line here.)
  • Trail to Mexico (an echo song) (Chosky 1981: 252-253, first two stanzas in Bradford 1978: #189)
so do re mi so do
  • My goose (Mitchell & Biss 1970: 91)
la do re mi so la
  • I know this rose will open (composed by Mary E. Grigolia)
    (Singing in the living tradition 1993: # 396)
so la do re mi so la
  • Two part grace (For this our daily food) (Tobitt 1946: 173)
  • The trail to Mexico (an echo song) (Sackett 1967:64)
mi so do mi so
  • Hurrah! Hurrah!
    (can be used as an example of double dotted notes)
    (Taylor & Dyk 1977: 4)

mi la do re mi so la

May the Lord, Mighty God

Chinese folk song available here.
Not strictly a round, but involves two contrapuntal voices.


mi so la do re mi so la
  • Trail to Mexico (an echo song) (Dallin & Dallin 1967)
      The dying cowboy (an echo song) (Fife & Alta 1969: 314)
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