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Advanced syncopation, tonic arpeggio,
and a blue note: flat leading tone (Te)
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Description
- Grade: Fifth
- Origin: USA – African American Spiritual
- Key: C Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: AB – verse/refrain
- Rhythm: advanced: | ta ti ti ta ta | ta ta ta/a |
| ti ta ta ti ta | syncopation, | ta ta/a ti ti |
| ta ti ti ta ti ti | ta ta ti-ti-ta/ | syncopation
| ta ta/a (ta) | ta/ ti ta/a | syncopation,
| ta ti/ ri ta ta | syncopation - Pitches: intermediate: La Do Re Mi So La Te Ti Do – lowered/flat leading tone (Te) – blue note
- Intervals: intermediate: Do8\La/Do8 (m3), So/Te(m3), So/Do8 (P5), So/Ti (M3), Ti\Mi (P5), Do/Mi (M3), Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio (I, C), Do\La/Do (m3)
- Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; rest: quarter; triplet eighths, syncopation, blue note: lowered/flat leading tone, two double barlines, vocal slurs, tied notes, verse/refrain
- Key Words: world geography: Bethlehem; USA history, African American history, spiritual, sacred, holiday: Christmas; Eastern Star, Bible story, birth of Jesus, Jesus Christ birth, shepherd, morn (morning), heed, angel, flocks, herds; contractions: you’ll (you will), there’s (there is); possessive: angel’s
| 1. | There’s a star in the East on Christmas morn, Rise up, shepherd and follow. It will lead to the place where the babe is born. Rise up, shepherd and follow. |
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| Follow, follow, Rise up, shepherd and follow. Follow the star of Bethlehem, Rise up, shepherd and follow. |
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If you take good heed to the angel’s words, Rise up, shepherd and follow. You’ll forget you flocks, you’ll forget your herds. Rise up, shepherd and follow. |
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