• Grade: Fifth
• Origin: German/English 1818 – USA – 1844
  ( F. D, Benteen – Baltimore, Maryland)
• Key: G Major
• Time: 6/8
• Form: AB – verse/refrain
• Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti ti ti | ti ti ti ta (ti) | ti ti ti ta ti | ta/ (ta) ti | ti ti ti ta/ | ta/ (ta) (ti) | ta/a/ ti |
• Pitches: intermediate: mi fa so la ti do re mi fa
• Intervals: intermediate: so/do (P4), la\fa (M3), re\ti (M3), mi/so (m3), do/mi8 (M3), fa8\re (m3), mi8\do (M3)
• Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter, eighth; pickup beat, verse/refrain, tied notes, two part harmony: major and minor sixths, major and minor thirds, perfect fourth; singing in parts, 6/8 time: eighth note receives one beat, divisions of a dotted quarter note: three eights (3 ti’s), feeling duple meter (2) in 6/8
  
• Key Words: world geography: England, Germany (each documented as country of origin, 1818), USA geography: first published in 1844 by F. D, Benteen of Baltimore, Maryland; French: viva l’amour (long live love), viva la compagnie (long live the company: army unit); character education, fellow, success, friend, fellowship, wider, circle, expands, comrades, far away lands, banish troubles, occasion, compel, enliven, heart, military song, scout song, camp song, fellowship song; contractions: we’ll (we will), won’t (will not); abbreviation: ev’ry (every)
• Recorder: advanced: introducing high F, playing in two parts, two part harmony: major and minor sixths, major and minor thirds, perfect fourth; singing in parts, 6/8 time: eighth note receives one beat, divisions of a dotted quarter note: three eights (3 ti’s)

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