• Grade: Fourth
• Origin: Iceland – Folk Song
• Key: A minor – pitched in C Major
• Time: 2/4
• Form: ABaCCC
• Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti | ti ti ta | |ta (ta) | ti/ ri ti ti  | ta/a | ti ri ti ti ti | ta/ (ti) |
• Pitches: intermediate: la ti do re mi fa – extended high register practice
• Intervals: intermediate: la/do, mi\do/mi, re\la, ti/mi (diminished fourth, d4=mi), la/mi (perfect fifth, P5)
• Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; rests: quarter, eighth; pickup beat, two part, singing in parts, fermata, minor tonality where the tonic is the sixth (La) of the relative major: C; tempo: allegretto: moderately fast (98–109 BPM), poco meno mosso: little less rapid (slower)
• Key Words: world geography: Iceland, sacred, Christmas, holiday season, European history, holiday feast, feasting, free, care, King Pipin, Olof, daughter, fair, dance, sing, merrily, putting, aside; Christmas Tide, abbreviation ev’ry (every)

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