- Grade: Fifth
- Origin: England – Traditional, tune dates from 1830’s (French Army), popular during the Franco-Prussian war (1870), and in World War I (1914)
- Key: F Major
- Time: 6/8
- Form: rhythm: AABC – pitches: ABCD
- Rhythm: intermediate: |ti ti ti ta ti | ta/a ti | ta/a/a | ta ti ta ti | ta ti ta/ | ta/ ta/ |
- Pitches: intermediate: so ti do re mi fa so la
- Intervals: intermediate: mi/so (m3), fa\re, (m3), mi\do (M3), re\ti\so descending dominant arpeggio (V, C), so/so ascending dominant octave skip
- Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; tied notes, dominant arpeggio, dominant octave skip, melodic rhythm patterns, 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
- Key Words: world history: World War I, world geography: Armentieres, France; language: French: mademoiselle (unmarried woman), Parley voo (respelling of the French – parlez-vous, meaning: do you speak?), Hinky Dinky (person/place of questionable quality), forty years, steady beat; contraction: she’s (she was), she’ll (she will)
- Recorder: intermediate: practicing B flat, descending dominant arpeggio, and ascending dominant octave skip
Armentières: Dutch: a commune in the Nord department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region in northern France. It is part of the Urban Community of Lille Métropole.
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