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Syncopation on the fourth quarter of the first and second beats
(uh of 1, uh of 2), dominant (So) is the tonal center,
experiencing the intervals So\Re (P4) and So/Re8 (P5).
Description
- Grade: Fourth
- Origin: USA – Folk Song
- Key: B flat Major – centered around the fifth (So) of the major scale
- Time: 2/4
- Form: ABA – refrain/verse/refrain
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ti/ ri ta | syncopation,
| ti ti ta | ti/ ri ti ti | syncopation, | ti ti ti/ ri | syncopation, | ti ti ti ti | ta (ta) | - Pitches: intermediate: Re So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa
- Intervals: intermediate: So/Re8 (P5), Ti\So (M3), So\Re/So (P4), So/Ti (M3)
- Musical Elements: notes: quarter, dotted eighth, eighth; rest: quarter, D.C. al Fine, Fine, two double barlines
- Key Words: USA history, sixteen stories high, chicken pie, slept, feather bed, violin, fiddled, dance, play, southern mountain ballad
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| ‘Round and ’round, Old Joe Clark, ‘Round and ’round I say; ‘Round and ’round, Old Joe Clark, I haven’t long to stay. |
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| 1. | Old Joe Clark, he had a house, Sixteen stories high. Ev’ry story in that house Was full of chicken pie. |
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I went down to Joe Clark’s house, Never been before. He slept on the feather bed And I slept on the floor. |
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| 3. | Joe Clark had a violin, He fiddled all the day. Anybody start to dance And Joe would start to play. |
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