• Grade: Fourth
• Origin: USA – African American Spiritual
• Key: F Minor (pitched in A flat Major)
• Time: 2/4
• Form: AB – Verse/Refrain
• Rhythm: advanced: | ri ti/ ti ti | syncopation, | ri ti/ ta | syncopation, | ta/ ti | ta/ ta_|_a/a ti ti | syncopation (_|_=tie), | ti ri ta ti | ri ti/ ti ti | syncopation, | ta/ ta_|_/ ri ti/ | syncopation
• Pitches: intermediate: mi la do re mi
• Intervals: intermediate: la/do/mi ascending submediant minor arpeggio, mi\do, mi\do\la descending submediant minor arpeggio, mi\do\la\mi descending submediant minor arpeggio, mi/la, la/mi8, re\la
• Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; rest: quarter; syncopation, ascending and descending minor arpeggios, melodic rhythm patterns
• Key Words: USA history: African American Spirituals, sacred, Jesus, Christmas, birth of Christ, manger, pity, shame, Lord, Mary, cradle, nailed, laid, cross, robber, risen, glory; contractions: he’s (he is), didn’t (did not), wasn’t (was not); abbreviations: ‘scended (ascended)
• Recorder: intermediate: minor tonality, ascending and descending minor arpeggios, mastering: F, A, C

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