- Grade: Fifth
- Origin: Chorus: words: Andrew B. Sterling; music: Kerry Mills (1904), celebrating the Louisiana Purchase Exposition – “St. Louis World’s Fair”
- Key: C Major
- Time: 3/4
- Form: Chorus: AaBa
- Rhythm: beginners: | ta/a ta | ta ta/a | ta/a/a | ta (ta) (ta) | ta ta ta |
- Pitches: advanced: do re mi fa so si la ti do re ri mi – raised/sharp dominate (5, si) and supertonic (2, ri), extended range
- Intervals: advanced: si/mi8 (M6), mi8\do8\so descending tonic arpeggio (I, C) la/do8 (m3), la/re (P4), re8/ri8 (m2), ri8/mi (m2), mi\la (P5), la\si (m2), si/la (m2), re8\so (P5), so/do8 (P4) – raised/sharp supertonic and dominant
- Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, quarter; rest: quarter; tied notes, melodic rhythm patterns, moving chromatically (by half steps), raised/sharp supertonic and dominant, stepping and skipping up and down the staff
- Key Words: USA history: Louisiana Purchase, President Thomas Jefferson, Louis and Clark Expedition, Louisiana Purchase Exposition – “St. Louis World’s Fair,” USA geography: Louisiana, St. Louis, Missouri; Hoochee-Koochee (belly dance), tootsie-wootsie (loved one), lie-skee (slang for lie), die-skee (slang for die), dash (dance), congregation (church members)
- Recorder: advanced: practicing G# and high D# and E, moving chromatically, improving finger dexterity stepping and skipping up and down the staff
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