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  INTERVAL                   SONGS AND THEMES TO REMEMBER THEM BY

  ascending descending

m2

Jaws Jaws

M2

Happy Birthday Three Blind Mice
m3 Brahms's lullaby, "Go to sleep..." Barney song, This Old Man
M3 Do a Deer Beethoven's 5th, Three Blind Mice
P4 Here Comes the Bride O Come, All Ye Faithful
TT Maria (West Side Story); Simpsons theme song (The Simpsons) Jets theme (West Side Story)
P5 Twinkle Twinkle Little Star Oh, Say Can You See (1st and 3rd notes; Superman theme
m6 The Entertainer (3rd and 4th notes) Love Story
M6 N-B-C; My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean Music of the Night beginning No-body Knows the Trouble I've Seen
m7 There's A Place for Us ("Somewhere" from West Side Story; Have You Driven a Ford Lately?; Old Star Trek Theme  
M7 Bali High  Somewhere Over the Rainbow  
P8 Some-where Over the Rainbow  
 

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