Description

• Grade: Third
• Origin: music: John P. Sousa – words: unknown
• Key: E flat Major
• Time: 2/2 (counted in 4/4)
• Form: AB
• Rhythm: intermediate: | ta/a ta ta | ta/a ta ta |
  | ta/a ta/ ti | syncopation, | ta/a/a ta | ta ta/a/a |
  | ta ta ta ta | ta/a (ta) ta | ta (ta) ta/a |
• Pitches: advanced: So La Ti Do Di Re Ri Me Mi Fa So La Do
• Intervals: advanced: Mi\Ri (raised 2nd), Ri/Mi, Mi/So, So\Mi, Fa\Re, Re\Di (raised tonic), Di/Re, Re/Fa, La\Re, Re/So, Ti/Re, Do/Me (lowered 3rd), Do/Do ascending tonic octave skip, Do\Do descending octave skip, So\Do, So\So descending dominate octave skip, La/Mi
• Musical Elements: notes: whole, dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; multiple tied notes, pickup beat, flat, sharp, natural, vocal slur, octave skips
• Key Words: John Phillip Sousa, “The Stars and Strips Forever,” patriotic tunes, nonsense lyrics, animal science, duck, swamp, mother, another, nearly, damp, alone, friends, one and only; hyphenated: web-footed