"Go Tell Aunt Rhody" (Traditional) - scale degrees 1,2,3,4,5,6 "Do You Know the Muffin Man?" (Traditional) - scale degress 5,6,7,1,2,3 "Down on the Corner" (Creedence Clearwater Revival) - scale degrees 1,2,3,4,5,6 Vocal melody, harmony part, piano accompaniment, chord names and black & white photos. "By My Side" (from Godspell) - scale degrees b7,1,2,b3,3,4,5Ĭomposed by Stephen Schwartz. "The Boll Weevil" (Traditional) - scale degrees 5,6,7,1,3 "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" (Traditional) - scale degrees 1,2,3,4,5,6 "A-Tisket A-Tasket" (Traditional) - scale degrees 1,2,3,4,5,6 "As Lately We Watched" (Traditional) - scale degrees 5,6,7,1,2,3 "As Each Happy Christmas" (Johann Christian Heinrich Rink) - scale degrees 1,2,3,4,5,6
"Am I a Soldier of the Cross?" (Isaac Watts, Dr. "Willum He Had Seven Sons", "William He Had Seven Sons" - natural minor scale degrees 1,2,3,4,5,6
"Skip to My Lou" (Traditional) - scale degrees 7,1,2,3,4,5 "Pat-a-Pan (Willie, Bring Your Little Drum)" (Traditional) - minor scale degrees 7,1,2,3,4,5 "The Coventry Carol" (Traditional) - minor scale degrees 7,1,2,3,#3,4,5 "A Charge to Keep I Have" (Charles Wesley, Lowell Mason) - scale degrees 3,4,5,6,7,1 "The Boar's Head Carol" (Traditional) - scale degrees 3,4,5,6,7,1 "Mary Had a Little Lamb" (traditional) - scale degrees 1,2,3,5Ĭreedence Clearwater Revival - Greatest Hitsīy Creedence Clearwater Revival. NOTE: some versions of this song have an octave range. "I Have a Little Dreidel/The Dreidel Song" (Traditional) - scale degrees 1,2,3,4,5. "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross" (Isaac Watts, Lowell Mason) - scale degrees 7,1,2,3,4 "The Hokey Pokey (The Hokey Cokey)" (Traditional) - scale degrees 5,6,7,1 "Baby Shark" (traditional) - scale degrees 5,6,7,1
"Hot Cross Buns" (traditional) - scale degrees 1,2,3 (Note: there is also a version of this with an octave range) "Ein Ton" or "The Monotone" (Peter Cornelius, from the song cycle Trauer und Trost) - minor scale degree 5 NOTE: I do not count spoken word pieces in this category as there typically is pitch inflection involved. If you find this page useful, please consider donating to the site upkeep. I've also provided purchase links below some of the titles for your convenience.įor a list of only Christmas/Hanukkah songs with range of an octave or less, click here. Please be aware that many hymns and folks songs have multiple versions, or even entirely different settings, so you will need to double-check that your sheet music lists the same composer/lyricist as indicated here and that the range and scale degrees match the information listed here.
Many of the hymns are public domain and available for free at. This list may also be very helpful for actors with limited singing skills to pick suitable audition pieces, for instrumentalists practicing transposition, or for finding melodies with limited pitch content for beginning instrumentalists to play. They are listed here in order from Perfect Unison to Perfect Octave, followed by a list of scale degrees used in each song. To save time, I started compiling a list of songs that have a range of one octave or less. Songs with Small Vocal Range Songs with Small Vocal RangeĪs a vocal teacher working with young and inexperienced students, I found that it was sometimes difficult to find songs that had a narrow enough range to fit the limited vocal range of beginning students.