Intervals - examples in songs

Ascending

m2

ti- doh - Theme from Jaws, I Left My Heart in San Francisco

M2

Frere Jacques, Doe-a-deer. Happy-Birthday

m3

O Canada - O Where has My Little Dog Gone, Brahm's Lullaby, Greensleeves, To Dream the Impossible Dream

M3

While Shepards Watched, From the Halls of Montezuma, Well I Come from Alabama

P4

Here Comes the Bride, The British Grenadiers, Amazing Grace , Someday My Prince Will Come, Day is Done (Taps)

A4 - tritone - diminished fifth

Maria (West Side Story)

P5

Twinkle Little Star, Lavender's Blue. Hey there Georgy Girl

m6

Love Story (3rd to 4th note), Go Down Moses

M6

My Bonny Lies Over the Ocean - first 2 notes of NBC chime - Theme from "The Sting" (The Entertainer 3rd to 4th notes), Dashing-ing through the snow.

m7

There's A Place For Us (West Side Story) - Old Star Trek Theme

M7

Bali Hai (South Pacific - first three notes - up octave , then down semitone)

Octave

Some-where over the rainbow

Descending

m2

Joy to the World, Shall we dance (from The King and I)

M2

Three Blind Mice, Whistle While You Work, Mary had a little lamb

m3

Jesus Loves Me, Oh-o say can you see

M3

Big Ben , Swing Low Sweet Chariot, Good night ladies

P4

Make New Friends, Farandole- Bizet, Born Free, I've Been Working on the Railroad

A4 - tritone - diminished fifth

Europian siren

P5

Minuette in G- Flinstones, Bring a Torch Jeannette Isabella

m6

Love Story Theme (Where Do I begin)- first 2 notes

M6

Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen, O-ver there, Gonna Lay down my sword and shield

m7

Theme from American in Paris

M7

"Hee haw" from the grand Canyon Suite

Other Related comments

Depending upon the age group being used, you might have to consider tunes from familiar rock or alternative bands!!! Another comment: the motif from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" offers relative familiarity and several good intervallic studies, i.e., upward M2, downward M3, octave, upward P5.