• Grade: Second
• Origin: USA – African American Spiritual
• Key: E minor – pitched in G Major
• Time: 2/4
• Form: refrain: AaAB – verse: ABAB – song: ABA refrain/verse/refrain
• Rhythm: advanced: | ti ti ti ti | ta/ ti | ta ta | ta/a | ti ta/ | syncopation, | ta ti ti | ti/ ri ta |
• Pitches: beginners: la do re mi fa
• Intervals: intermediate: la/do, do\la, la/re, re/fa, fa\re
• Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; refrain/verse, repeat signs, D.C. al Fine, Fine, minor tonality, syncopation
• Key Words: sacred, Christmas, holiday season, African American History, pretty, Bethelem, Immanuel, Jesus Christ; contraction: gonna (going to), I’ll (I will)

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