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class=\"height\"><strong>Origin<\/strong>: USA &#8211; Wallis Willis (Choctaw Freedman)<br \/>\ncirca. 1860&#8217;s &#8211; African American Spiritual<\/li>\n<li class=\"style6\"><strong>Key<\/strong>: G Major<\/li>\n<li class=\"height\"><strong>Time<\/strong>: 4\/4<\/li>\n<li class=\"height\"><strong>Form<\/strong>: ABA &#8211; refrain\/verse\/refrain<\/li>\n<li class=\"height\"><strong>Rhythm<\/strong>:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong><span class=\"advanced\">advanced<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span>: | ta\/a\/a ta |<span id=\"blue\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">ta\/ ti ti ta<\/span><\/span><strong><span id=\"blue\">\/<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0| <em>syncopation<\/em>, | ti ti ti ti ti ti ta | ta\/a (ta) ti ti |\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span id=\"red\">ti ta ti ti ta ti<\/span><\/span>\u00a0| <em>syncopation<\/em>, |<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> ti ti ta ti ta\/<\/span> | <em>syncopation<\/em>, | ti ti ta ta ta | ti ti ti ti ti ta\/ |<\/li>\n<li class=\"height\"><strong>Pitches<\/strong>:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><span class=\"beginners\"><strong>beginners<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span>: so la do re mi so la &#8211;\u00a0<em>extended pentatonic scale<\/em><\/li>\n<li class=\"height\"><strong>Intervals<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><span class=\"beginners\"><strong>beginners<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span>: mi\\do\/mi\\do (M3), do\\la (m3), so\/do (P4), do&#8230;\/mi..\/so<span class=\"style2\">8<\/span>.. <em>ascending tonic arpeggio\u00a0with repeated pitches<\/em>, so<span class=\"style2\">8<\/span>\\mi\/so<span class=\"style2\">8<\/span>\u00a0(m3), so<span class=\"style2\">8<\/span>\\do (P5)<\/li>\n<li class=\"style6\"><strong>Musical Elements<\/strong>: notes: doted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; pickup beat, syncopation, pentatonic scale, tonic arpeggios, two double barlines, refrain\/verse\/refrain,\u00a0<em>D.C. al Fine, Fine<\/em><\/li>\n<li 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