- Grade: Fourth
- Origin: USA – Cowboy Song
- Key: G Major
- Time: 3/4
- Form: AaBa
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta/ ti | (x8) | ta ta ta | ta/a ta | ta/ ti ti |
- Pitches: intermediate: mi so la do re mi so la – pentatonic scale, extended range
- Intervals: intermediate: so/mi (M6), mi8\do\la\so\mi
(3 times) descending (vi7) arpeggio (Em7), mi/so/la/do (3 times) ascending (vi7) arpeggio (Em7), mi\do (M3), do/mi/so8 ascending tonic (I) arpeggio (G), so8\mi/so8 (m3), so\do (P5)
- Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, eighth; pickup beat, repetition of the vi7 arpeggio (Em7) gives the feeling of a minor tonality and a tonal center of mi the third of I and the fifth of vi, moving in and out of major and minor tonalities
- Key Words: USA history, cowboy vocabulary: ere (before), chuck wagon, flapjack (pancake), herd,cinches, reins, bronco, steers, chaparral, outfit, railroad coral, punchers, night riders, cook; breaking of day, hillside, vale, crowding, trail, shake, plains, roust (start moving), afternoon, shadows, lean, sticks, marshy, ravine, scatter, farther, vision, true, longest, evening, mountains, climbed, creeks, drooping, night, droop, sight
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