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Advanced syncopation, dynamics: mp, mf,
and a tonic I6 arpeggio.
Description
- Grade: Fifth
- Origin: USA – African American Spiritual
- Key: F Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: ABA – chorus/verse/chorus
- Rhythm: advanced: | ta/a/a ti ti | ta ta/a ta |
| ta ta (ti) ta ti | ta ta/a ti ti | ta/ ti ta ta | syncopation, | ta/ ti ti ta/ | ta ta ta ta | ta/a/a/a |
| ti ti ti ti ta ta | ta/a ta/ ti | syncopation - Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi Fa So La
- Intervals: intermediate: Mi\Do (M3), Do/So (P5), So\Mi (m3), Mi/So (m3), So\Re (P4), Re/La (P5), Fa\Re (m3), Do/Fa (P4), Do/Mi/So/La ascending tonic arpeggio w/sixth (I6, F6)
- Musical Elements: notes: whole, dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: eighth; pickup beat, repeat signs, D.S. al Fine, Fine, vocal slur, two double barlines, dynamics: mezzo piano/medium soft, mezzo forte/medium loud, multiple endings, ending a phrase on the supertonic (2, Re), tonic arpeggio with sixth (I6)
- Key Words: USA history, African American history, sacred, Lord, Jesus, Christians, trumpet sound, wake, nations, underground, glory, shining, shout, stars; contraction: you’ll (you will), there’s (there is); abbreviation: ’cause (because), mornin’ (morning); possessive: Lord’s
- Recorder: intermediate: excellent lower register practice
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| My Lord, what a mornin’, My Lord, what a mornin’, My Lord, what a mornin’, When the stars begin to fall. |
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| 1. | You’ll hear the trumpet sound, To wake all nations underground, Look in my Lord’s right hand, When the stars begin to fall. |
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You’ll see my Jesus come, His glory shining like the sun, Look in my Lord’s right hand, When the stars begin to fall. |
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| 3. | You’ll hear all Christian’s shout, ‘Cause there’s a new day come about, Look in my Lord’s right hand, When the stars begin to fall. |
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