Syncopation, descending arpeggio So8\Mi\Do\La, with each staff ending on an eighth rest after whistling on pitch.
Description
- Grade: Third
- Origin: USA – Folk Song
- Key: G Major
- Time: 2/4
- Form: rhythm: AAaA – pitches: ABCc
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ti | ti ti ri ti/ | syncopation, | ta ti ti ri | ti ti ti (ti) | ti ti ri ti ti |
- Pitches: intermediate: So La Do Re Mi So – pentatonic scale
- Intervals: intermediate: So/Do, Do/Mi, Do\La/Do, Mi/So8, So8\Mi\Do\La descending arpeggio, Do\So/Do
- Musical Elements: notes: quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; rest: eighth, syncopation, arpeggio, all staves end with an eighth rest
- Key Words: USA geography, North Carolina, Alabama, Southern USA, ole (old), parting, grieve, leave, sing, sorrow, dance, sometime, tomorrow; abbreviation: Car’lina (Carolina); contraction: I’ll (I will)
1. | Way down in North Car’lina, On the banks of the Ole Tar River, I go from there to Alabama, For to see my ole Aunt Hannah. |
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Now Nancy, I must leave you, Do not let our parting grieve you, Dance and sing, forget your sorrow, I’ll be back sometime tomorrow. |
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