Beginners syncopation in the pentatonic scale while distinguishing the ascending intervals Mi/So from Mi/La.
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- Grade: Fourth
- Origin: USA - Southern Appalachian Folk Song
- Key: F Major
- Time: 2/4
- Form: staves: AaAaB - song AB verse/chorus
- Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti ri | ti ti ta |
| ti ti ti ti | ti/ ri ti ti | syncopation
- Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi So La - pentatonic scale
- Intervals: intermediate: Mi/So, So\Mi, Mi/La, Do/Mi
- Musical Elements: notes: quarter, dotted eighth, eighth; repeat sign, verse/chorus
- Key Words: USA geography, Southern Appalachia, earth science: poplar (fast growing tree in southern USA); trough (a long, narrow open container for animals to eat or drink from), silver spoon, kicked, over the moon, dead and gone, jawbones, plowing
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"Fed My Horse"
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Fed my horse in a poplar trough,
Fed my horse in a poplar trough,
Fed my horse in a poplar trough,
Then she caught the whooping cough.
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Coy malindo
Killko, killko:
Coy malindo
Killko me. |
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Fed my horse in a silver spoon,
Fed my horse in a silver spoon,
Fed my horse in a silver spoon,
And then he kicked it over the moon.
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My old horse is dead and gone,
My old horse is dead and gone,
My old horse is dead and gone,
But he left his jawbones plowing the corn.
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