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Big Rock Candy Mountain

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Big Rock Candy Mountain

A melody which adds the fourth/subdominant (fa) to the pentatonic scale with no leading tone.

Description

Big Rock Candy Mountain

A melody which adds the fourth/subdominant (fa) to the pentatonic scale with no leading tone.

  • Grade: Fifth
  • Origin: USA – Folk Song, circa. 1920’s
  • Key: C Major
  • Time: 4/4
  • Form: phrases: ABACDEF – song: AB
  • Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta ta ta | ta ta/a ti ti | ta/a (ta) ti ti | ti ti ti ta ti ti | ta ti ti ta ti ti | ta ta ta/ ti | ta ta/a ti/ ri | ti ti ta ta ti ti | ta ta ta ti ti |
  • Pitches: intermediate: do re mi fa so la do – adding the fourth/subdominant (fa) to the pentatonic scale
  • Intervals: intermediate: mi/so (m3), la\fa/la (M3), la/do\la (m3), so\re (P4), re/fa (m3), so\do/so (P4), fa/do (P5)
  • Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; pickup beat, fermata, melodic rhythm patterns
  • Key WordsUSA history, hobo, daydreams, “Hobo Paradise,” “Hobo Heaven,” land, fair bright, handouts, bushes, sleep, night, boxcars, empty, shines, snow, rain, wind, blow, sycamore tree, soda water, water fountain, lemonade, springs, bluebird sings; contractions: that’s (that is), doesn’t (does not), there’s (there is); abbreviation: buzzin’ (buzzing) I’m (I am), isn’t (is not)
  • Recorder: intermediate: alternating repeated pitches, four measure phrases

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