Kum Ba Yah
Reading, singing, and playing three parts, singing in harmony, and
chord identification: tonic (I), subdominant (IV), dominate (V).
Description
- Grade: Fifth
- Origin: Africa – Traditional
- Key: F Major
- Time: 3/4
- Form: phrases: ABAC – song: AB, chorus/verse
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ti/ ri ta ti ti |
syncopation, | ta/a ti ti | ta/a ta | ti ta/ ti ti | syncopation - Pitches: intermediate: Mi Fa So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La
- Intervals: intermediate: Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio (I, F), So\Do (P5), Mi\Do (M3), Do/Mi (M3), Do\So (P4), So/Do (P4)
- Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; tied notes, syncopation, vocal slur, three part harmony, chorus/verse, chords: tonic triad (I, F), subdominant triad (IV, Bb), dominate triad (V, C), supertonic triad (ii, Ed – diminished), harmony
- Key Words: world geography: Africa; “Come By Here,” sacred, laughing, crying, praying, singing, camp song, scout song, civil rights song, protest song, prayer song; possessive: someone’s
- Recorder: advanced: practicing B flat, three part ensemble, chord identification