• Grade: Fifth
• Origin: USA – words: Jack Norworth, music: Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth – 1908
• Key: G Major
• Time: 2/2 (counted in 4/4)
• Form: AB*
• Rhythm: advanced: | ta/a ta/a | ta ta ti ta ti | syncopation, |ta/a/ ri ti/ ri| syncopation, | ta/a/a (ta) | ta ti ta ti ta | syncopation, | ti/ ri ti/ ri ti/ ri ti/ ri | ti/ ri ti/ ta/ (ta)| syncopation, | ta/a/a ta | ta ti ta ta/ | syncopation, | ta/ ti ti ti ti ti |
• Pitches: advanced: fa fi so la do di re mi fa so – raised/sharp tonic (1, di) raised mediant (3, fa) note: a sharp third/mi is the same as the fourth/fa
• Intervals: advanced: mi\di\la\fi descending subdominant arpeggio with raised root and fifth and added seventh (iv#7, c#m7), fi\fa/fi (m2), fi/mi(d7 – diminished seventh), re/so, (P4), so\mi (m3), do\la/do (m3), so/do (P4), do/fa (P4), do\so (P4)
• Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; rest: quarter; pickup beat, cut time, syncopation, raised tonic and mediant, sharp subdominant arpeggio, diminished seventh
• Key Words: USA history, theatre history: vaudeville, Ziegfeld Follies (songs debut), courting song, harvest moon, January, February, June, July, snow time, spoon, gal, abbreviation: lovin’ (loving)
  

* Chorus to the early twentieth century vaudeville song, where songs about the moon were popular: “By the light of the Silvery Moon“, “(On) Moonlight Bay“.

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