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Intermediate syncopation in 6/8 time with the most common
intervals found in a minor tonality (key).
Description
- Grade: Fifth
- Origin: Ireland/USA – Chanty – Railroad Work Song – 1864
- Key: A minor (pitched in C Major)
- Time: 6/8
- Form: AB – verse/refrain
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ti ti ti | ta ti ta ti | syncopation, | ta/ ta/ | ti ti ti ta ti | syncopation,
| ta ti ta/ | syncopation, | ta/ ta ti | syncopation - Pitches: beginners: Mi Fa So La Ti Do Re
- Intervals: intermediate: La\Mi/La (P4), Do\La (m3), La/Do (m3), Re\Ti (m3), Do\So (P4) – perfect fourths and minor thirds are common in minor tonalities (keys)
- Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, two double barlines, syncopation, minor tonality (key), 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, note: refrain is a variation of phrases found within the verse
- Key Words: world geography: USA, Ireland; chanty, work chanty, work song, railroad, USA westward expansion, intercontinental railroad, Irish immigrants, railroad workers: track layers, gaugers, spikers, and bolters; 1841, corduroy, breeches (britches), old world, new world, spare, luck, brought, through, stocking, cravat (neck tie), straw hat
- Recorder: intermediate: minor tonality (key), 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
| Verse (solo) | |||||
| 1. | In eighteen hundred and forty-one I put my corduroy breeches on, I put my corduroy breeches on, To work upon the railway. |
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| Fil-li-mee-oo-ree-oo-ree-ay, Fil-li-mee-oo-ree-oo-ree-ay, Fil-li-mee-oo-ree-oo-ree-ay, To work upon the railway. |
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In eighteen hundred and forty-two I left the old world for the new, Oh, spare me the luck that brought me through To work upon the railway. |
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| 3. | It’s “Pat, do this,” and “Pat, do that,” Without a stocking or cravat, And nothing but an old straw hat, While working in the railway. |
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