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Syncopation and feeling duple meter in 6/8 time
with a pentatonic scale.
Description
- Grade: Fifth
- Origin: USA – Traditional Spiritual
- Key: F Major
- Time: 6/8
- Form: AB – verse/refrain
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ta ti | ta ti ta ti |
syncopation, | ta ti ti ti ti | ta/ (ta) ti | syncopation,
| ta/ ta/ | ti ta (ta) ti | syncopation, | ta/ ti (ti) ti |
syncopation, | ta/a ti | - Pitches: intermediate: So Do Re Mi So La – pentatonic scale
- Intervals: intermediate: So/Do (P4), Mi\So (M6), Mi/So (m3), So\Mi (m3)
- Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rests: quarter, eighth; pickup beat, melodic rhythm patterns, tied notes, rhythmic changes to match verse syllables, verse/refrain; 6/8 time: eighth note receives one beat, divisions of a dotted quarter note: three eights (3 ti’s), feeling duple meter (2) in 6/8: where three eights would be a triplet if the beat is represented by a dotted quarter
- Key Words: USA history, spiritual, scared, Bible story: “Noah and the Ark”; world geography: Jordan, Jordan River; animals: crocodile, kangaroo, giraffe, flea, hippopotamus, honey bee, monkey, bear, elephant; caraway bun, dancing, hive, stuck, build, tricks, marched, sing, numbers one through ten; contractions: there’s (there is), we’ll (we will); abbreviations: hick’ry (hickory), shovin’ (shoving)
- Recorder: intermediate: syncopation in 6/8 time: eighth note receives one beat, divisions of a dotted quarter note: three eights (3 ti’s), feeling duple meter (2) in 6/8: where three eights would be a triplet if the beat is represented by a dotted quarter
| 1. | Old Noah, he built himself an ark; There’s one more river to cross. He built it out of hick’ry bark; There’s one more river to cross. |
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| There’s one more river, And that wide river is Jordan, There’s one more river, There’s one more river to cross. |
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The animals went in one by one, There’s one more river to cross. The elephant chewing a caraway bun. There’s one more river to cross. |
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| 3. | The animals went in two by two, There’s one more river to cross. The crocodile and the kangaroo. There’s one more river to cross. |
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| 4. | The animals went in three by three, There’s one more river to cross. The giraffe and a dancing and flea. There’s one more river to cross. |
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| 5. | The animals went in four by four, There’s one more river to cross. The hippos, they got stuck at the door. There’s one more river to cross. |
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| 6. | The animals went in five by five, There’s one more river to cross. The honey bees to build their hive. There’s one more river to cross. |
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| 7. | The animals went in six by six, There’s one more river to cross. The monkey, he was up to his tricks. There’s one more river to cross. |
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| 8. | The animals went in seven by seven, There’s one more river to cross. Said the bear to the elephant “Who are you shovin’?” There’s one more river to cross. |
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| 9. | The animals went in eight by eight, There’s one more river to cross. Some were early and some were late. There’s one more river to cross. |
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| 10. | The animals went in nine by nine, There’s one more river to cross. They all joined up and marched in a line. There’s one more river to cross. |
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| 11. | The animals went in ten by ten, There’s one more river to cross. If you want more then we’ll sing it again. There’s one more river to cross. |
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