• Grade: Fifth
• Origin: USA – River Chantey
• Key: F Major
• Time: 6/8
• Form: AB – verse/chorus
• Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti ti ti | ti ti ti ta ti | ta ti ti ti ti | ta/a ti | ta ti ta ti | ta/ (ta/) | ta ti ta/ |
• Pitches: intermediate: melody: mi so la ti do mi fa so lower harmony: so la ti do re mi
• Intervals: intermediate: melody: so/mi8 (M6), mi8\do\la\so descending arpeggio (vi7, dm7), so\mi/so (m3), so/ti (M3); lower harmony: mi\so (M6) ti/mi (P4)
• Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: dotted quarter; two part harmony (in 6ths, and 3rds), 6/8 time: eighth note receives one beat, divisions of a dotted quarter note: three eights (3 ti’s), feeling duple meter (2) in 6/8,  pickup beat, submediant arpeggio (vi7, Dm7), tied notes, vocal slur, singing in parts, reading two parts
• Key Words: USA history, USA geography: Ohio, Ohio River; river chantey, river work song, river channel, steady and strong, river current, sailing, wind, morning sun, sun ray, hoe-cake (pancake from corn meal, cooked on a hoe; garden tool), contraction: won’t (will not), Dinah’s (Dinah is)
• Recorder: intermediate: playing and reading two part harmony (in 6ths and 3rds)

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