Common and tricky syncopation while practicing the descending intervals La\Do and Do\La.
Description
- Grade: Second
- Origin: USA – African American Spiritual
- Key: F Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: ABAC
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta ta ta | ti ta ti ta/a | syncopation, | ti ta ti ta ta | syncopation, |
| ti ri ti ti/ ri ta ta | syncopation | ta/a/a ta | - Pitches: intermediate: La Ti Do Re Mi So La
- Intervals: intermediate: La\Do, Do\La, So/So ascending dominate octave skip, La/Re
- Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; pickup beat, syncopation
- Key Words: sacred, world geography, religious history, African American History, spiritual, Zion, children, mother, father, marching, along, about, welcome; possessive: Zion’s
1. | Old Zion’s children marching along, Marching along, marching along. Old Zion’s children marching along, Talking about a welcome day. |
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I called my mother marching along, Marching along, marching along. I called my mother marching along, Talking about a welcome day. |
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3. | I called my father marching along, Marching along, marching along. I called my father marching along, Talking about a welcome day. |
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