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Kum Ba Yah

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Kum Ba Yah

Reading, singing, and playing three parts, singing in harmony, with an ascending tonic arpeggio and syncopation.

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Kum Ba Yah

Reading, singing, and playing three parts, singing in harmony, with an ascending tonic arpeggio and syncopation.

  • Grade: Fifth
  • Origin: Africa – Traditional
  • Key: F Major
  • Time: 3/4
  • Form: phrases: ABAC – song: AB, chorus/verse
  • Rhythmintermediate: | ti/ ri ta ti ti | ta/a ti ti | ta/a ta | ti ta/ ti ti| syncopation
  • Pitches: intermediate: mi fa so la ti do re mi fa so Lla
  • Intervals: intermediate: do/mi/so ascending tonic arpeggio (I, F), so\do (P5), mi\do (M3), do/mi (M3), do\so (P4), so/do (P4)
  • Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; tied notes, syncopation, vocal slur, three part harmony, chorus/verse, harmony, ascending tonic arpeggio
  • Key Wordsworld geography: Africa; “Come By Here,” sacred, laughing, crying, praying, singing, camp song, scout song, civil rights song, protest song, prayer song; possessive: someone’s
  • Recorderadvanced: practicing B flat, three part ensemble

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