Advanced beat divisions and syncopated rhythms, ascending and descending minor arpeggios, in a minor tonality.
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- Grade: Fourth
- Origin: USA - African American Spiritual
- Key: F Minor (pitched in A flat Major)
- Time: 2/4
- Form: AB - Verse/Refrain
- Rhythm: advanced:
| ri ti/ ti ti | syncopation,
| ri ti/ ta | syncopation, | ta/ ti | syncopation,
| ta/ ta_|_a/a ti ti | syncopation (_|_=tie),
| ti ri ta ti | syncopation, | ri ti/ ti ti | syncopation,
| ta/ ta_|_/ ri ti/ | syncopation
- Pitches: intermediate: Mi La Do Re Mi
- Intervals: intermediate: La/Do/Mi ascending minor arpeggio, Mi\Do, Mi\Do\La descending minor arpeggio, Mi\Do\La\Mi descending minor arpeggio, Mi/La, La/Mi8, Re\La
- Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; rest: quarter; syncopation, ascending and descending minor arpeggios, melodic rhythm patterns
- Key Words: USA history: African American Spirituals, sacred, Jesus, Christmas, birth of Christ, manger, pity, shame, Lord, Mary, cradle, nailed, laid, cross, robber, risen, glory; contractions: he's (he is), didn't (did not), wasn't (was not); abbreviations: 'scended (ascended)
- Recorder: intermediate: minor tonality, ascending and descending minor arpeggios, mastering: F, A, C
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"Poor Little Jesus"
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It was poor little Jesus, yes, yes.
He was born on Christmas, yes, yes.
And laid in a manger, yes, yes.
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Wasn't that a pity and a shame? Lord?
Wasn't that a pity and a shame? |
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It was poor little Jesus, yes, yes.
Child of Mary, yes, yes.
Didn't have a cradle, yes, yes. |
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It was poor little Jesus, yes, yes.
They nailed him to the cross, Lord, yes, yes.
They hung him with a robber, yes, yes. |
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It was poor little Jesus, yes, yes.
He's risen from the darkness, yes, yes.
He's 'scended into glory, yes, yes.
No more a pity and a shame, Lord, Lord.
No more pity and a shame.
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