Introducing the descending and ascending intervals Do\La, La/Do.
Description
- Grade: First
- Origin: Virginia, USA – Folk Song
- Key: G Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: ABCD
- Rhythm: beginners: | ta ti ti ta ti ti | ta ta ti ti ta |
| ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti | ti ti ti ti ti ti ta | - Pitches: beginners: So La Do Re Mi – pentatonic scale
- Intervals: beginners: Do\La, Do/La, Mi\Do
- Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; introducing the intervals Do\La and La/Do, tune sounds minor by ending phrase on the 6th (La)
- Key Words: hoecake (thin bread made of corn meal cooked on a hoe, over an open campfire – much like a pancake), frog, nodding, lizard, stole, fetch, long-tailed, nanny