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Advanced syncopation and an extended pentatonic scale,
produces a spiritual which is challenging and fun!
Description
- Grade: Fifth
- Origin: USA – Wallis Willis (Choctaw Freedman)
circa. 1860’s – African American Spiritual - Key: G Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: ABA – refrain/verse/refrain
- Rhythm: advanced: | ta/a/a ta | ta/ ti ti ta/ | syncopation, | ti ti ti ti ti ti ta | ta/a (ta) ti ti |
| ti ta ti ti ta ti | syncopation, | ti ti ta ti ta/ | syncopation, | ti ti ta ta ta | ti ti ti ti ti ta/ | - Pitches: beginners: So La Do Re Mi So La – extended pentatonic scale
- Intervals: beginners: Mi\Do/Mi\Do (M3), Do\La (m3), So/Do (P4), Do…/Mi../So8.. ascending tonic arpeggio with repeated pitches, So8\Mi/So8 (m3), So8\Do (P5)
- Musical Elements: notes: doted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; pickup beat, syncopation, pentatonic scale, tonic arpeggios, two double barlines, refrain/verse/refrain, D.C. al Fine, Fine
- Key Words: USA history; underground railroad, African American History, USA geography: Choctaw County, Hugo, Oklahoma; Wallis Willis (composer), Jubilee Singers, scared, spiritual, civil rights movement song; world geography: Jordan River (Middle East); chariot, band of angels, Heaven, soul, heavenly, bound, brightest, sins, Jesus, Bible stories
- Recorder: advanced: playing in F Major (pentatonic scale), syncopation, tonic arpeggio
Partner song: “All Night, All Day!”
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| Swing low, sweet chariot, Coming for to carry me home, Swing low, sweet chariot, Coming for to carry my home. |
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| 1. | I looked over Jordan, and what did I see? Coming for to carry me home, A band of angels coming after me. Coming for to carry me home. |
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If you get there before I do, Coming for to carry me home, Tell all my friends I’m coming, too. Coming for to carry me home. |
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| 3. | I’m sometimes up and sometimes down, Coming for to carry me home, But still my soul feels heavenly bound, Coming for to carry me home. |
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| 4. | The brightest day that I can say, Coming for to carry me home, When Jesus washed my sins away, Coming for to carry me home. |
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