Description

• Grade: Second
• Origin: USA – African American Spiritual
• Key: G Major
• Time: 2/4
• Form: refrain: ABAC – verse: ABAC
• Rhythm: advanced: | ta/a | ta/ ti | ta ta |
  | ti/ ri ti ti | ti ta/ | ti ti ta |
• Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi So
• Intervals: intermediate: So/Do, Do/Mi, Do\La, La/Do, Do/So, So\Mi, Mi\Do, Re\Ti
• Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth; refrain/verse, D.C. al Fine (da capo al fine/repeat from beginning to fine) Fine (finish/end), intervals of a third, mastering the intervals Do\La/Do, singing in parts, common ending: Re\Ti/Do
• Key Words: sacred, African American history month, spiritual, evening prayer, bedtime prayer, Angels, Lord, watching, sleep, lay, wake, pray

Partner song: “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot!”