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Introducing a descending augmented fourth or tritone La\me.
Description
- Grade: Third (3)
- Origin: African American Spiritual
- Key: F Major
- Time: 2/4
- Form: Rhythm: AABCD – Pitches: ABACD
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta | ti ti ti ti | ta ti ti | ta/ ti ri | ta/a
- Pitches: intermediate: Do Re me Mi Fa So La – lowered third
- Intervals: advanced: La\me (A4 Augmented 4th, also known as a Tritone: three whole tones/steps), Do/Mi\Do (M3), So\Do (P5), Do/Fa (P4), Do/So (P5)
- Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth, sixteenth; rests: quarter; Augmented 4th, also known as a Tritone: three whole tones/steps, tied notes, lowered third (me)
- Key Words: African American Spiritual, African American history, sacred, shepherd, sheep, lambs, stray, contraction: where’d (where did), O (oh)
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Shepherd, Shepherd, where’d you lose your sheep? Shepherd, Shepherd, where’d you lose your sheep? Shepherd, Shepherd, where’d you lose your sheep? O, the sheep all gone a stray. The sheep all gone a stray. |
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Shepherd, Shepherd, where’d you leave your lambs? Shepherd, Shepherd, where’d you leave your lambs? Shepherd, Shepherd, where’d you leave your lambs? O, the lambs all gone a stray. The lambs all gone a stray. |
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