• Grade: Fifth
• Origin: USA – Folk Song
• Key: F Major
• Time: 4/4
• Form: phrases: ABCD
• Rhythm: beginners: | ta ti ti ta ta | ta ta/a/a _|_a/a/a/a | ta ta ta ti ti | ta ta ta ta | ta ta/a ta | (_=tie)
• Pitches: intermediate: so la do re me mi so la – lowered/flat mediant, me, (3, A flat – blue note)
• Intervals: intermediate: do/mi\do (M3), do\la (m3), la/do (m3), do/mi/so ascending tonic arpeggio (I, F), so\mi/so (m3), so\re (P4), so\mi\do descending tonic arpeggio (I, F), mi/do/la ascending submediant (vi, Dm), so/mi (M6), la\me augmented 4th (A4)
• Musical Elements: notes: whole, dotted half, half, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; tied notes, blue note, vocal slurs, variations on rhythms to match verse syllables, tonic arpeggios, submediant arpeggio
• Key Words: USA history, crawdad: (crawfish) fresh water shrimp, courting song, fishing song, boy/girl song, camp song, fishing line, fishing pole, fishing hole, slept, too, to, gate, gunny sack, pack, apple pie, watch, honey, change
• Recorder: intermediate: introducing A flat , blue note

blue note – a lowered/flatted note, especially the third or seventh note of a scale, in place of an expected major interval

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