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Three-part pentatonic round with challenging syncopated rhythms an ascending octave skip and submediant triad.
Description
• Grade: Fifth (5)
• Origin: United States – Virginia Folk Song – Round
• Key: D Major
• Time: 2/4
• Form: ABA
• Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ti ri | ti ti (ta) | ti ti ti/ ri | ti ta ti ri | syncopation, | ti ta ti | ti ti ti ti | ta/a |
• Pitches: beginning: Do Re Mi So La Do – pentatonic scale
• Intervals: intermediate: Do/La (M6), Do/Mi (M3), So\Mi (m3), Do/Do (P8) tonic octave skip, Do8\La (m3), So/Do8 (P4), Mi\Do\La descending submediant triad, So/Do (P5)
• Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; rests: quarter; repeated rhythmic patterns, repeated pitch patterns and intervals, descending submediant triad Mi\So\La, syncopation, ascending tonic octave skip Do/Do, vocal slurs, three part round/canon
• Key Words: United States history, Unites States geography: Virginia, Lord, sacred, contractions: singin’ (singing), mornin’ (morning), don’t (does not)
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Sun don’t set in the mornin’, Sun don’t set in the mornin’, Lord, Sun don’t set in the mornin’, Light shines round the world. |
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Sing on, singin’’ sister, Sing on, singin’ sister, Sing on, singin’ sister, Light shines round the world. |
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| C) | Sun don’t set in the mornin’, Sun don’t set in the mornin’, Lord, Sun don’t set in the mornin’, Light shines round the world. |
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