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Skipping dotted eighth rhythms contrasted with straight eighths.
Description
- Grade: Second
- Origin: Tennessee, USA – Folk Song
- Key: G Major
- Time: 2/4
- Form: ABCD
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ti/ ri t/ ri | ta ti ti |
| ta ta | ta/a | - Pitches: intermediate: So La Do Re Mi So – pentatonic scale
- Intervals: intermediate: Do\So, So/Do, Do/Mi, Mi\Do, Do/So, So\Mi, Mi/So, So\Do, Do\La, So/So ascending dominate octave skip
- Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, dotted eighth, sixteenth; vocal slur, ascending dominate octave skip; note: last staff is a combination of the third and second staves
- Key Words: sacred/secular, welcome song, Tennessee, hallelujah; abbreviation: ev’rybody’s (everybody is)