{"id":9542,"date":"2014-11-24T15:31:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T15:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eagertest.com\/?product=tom-dooley"},"modified":"2025-08-24T19:00:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T19:00:59","slug":"tom-dooley","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.musicyoucanread.com\/?product=tom-dooley","title":{"rendered":"Tom Dooley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Tom Dooley<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Limited range, syncopated rhythms, ascending submediant arpeggio la\/do\/mi (vi, Dm), and a descending submediant arpeggio mi\\do\\la, within the pentatonic scale.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul type=\"square\">\n<li class=\"style6\"><strong>note<\/strong>:\u00a0<em>use of the minor arpeggio (vi, Dm) and ending with a minor third gives the tune a minor feeling within the pentatonic scale<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table border=\"2\" width=\"500\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"3\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"height\" width=\"486\">\n<ul type=\"square\">\n<li class=\"height\"><strong>Grade<\/strong>: Fifth<\/li>\n<li class=\"height\"><strong>Origin<\/strong>: USA &#8211; Traditional Ballad &#8211; 1866<\/li>\n<li class=\"style6\"><strong>Key<\/strong>: F Major<\/li>\n<li class=\"height\"><strong>Time<\/strong>: 4\/4<\/li>\n<li class=\"height\"><strong>Form<\/strong>: ABA &#8211; chorus\/verse\/chorus<\/li>\n<li class=\"height\"><strong>Rhythm<\/strong>:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong class=\"intermediate\">intermediate<\/strong><\/em><\/span>: |\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span id=\"blue\">ti ta ti ta ta<\/span><\/span>\u00a0| <em>syncopation<\/em>, | ta\/a ta\/a | ta\/a\/a\/a | ta\/a\/a ta |\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span id=\"blue\">ti ta\/ ta ta<\/span><\/span>\u00a0| <em>syncopation<\/em>, | ta ta\/a ta | ta ta ti ta\/ | syncopation<\/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 &#8211;\u00a0<em>pentatonic scale<\/em><\/li>\n<li class=\"height\"><strong>Intervals<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong class=\"intermediate\">intermediate<\/strong><\/em><\/span>:<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0<span id=\"blue\">la\/do\/mi<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<em>ascending submediant arpeggio (vi, Dm)<\/em>, mi\\so (M6), re\\so (P5),\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span id=\"blue\">mi\\do\\la<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<em>descending submediant arpeggio (vi, Dm)<\/em>, do\\so (P4), la\/do (m3)<\/li>\n<li class=\"style6\"><strong>Musical Elements<\/strong>: notes: whole, dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, syncopation, chorus\/verse\/chorus,\u00a0<em>D.C. al Fine, Fine,\u00a0<\/em>two double barlines;\u00a0<strong>note<\/strong>:\u00a0<em>use of the minor arpeggio (vi, Dm) and ending with a minor third gives the tune a minor feeling within the pentatonic scale<\/em><\/li>\n<li class=\"style6\"><strong>Key Words<\/strong>: USA history; USA geography: Wilkes County, North Carolina, Tennessee; murder of Laura Foster by Tom Dula (Dooley); hanging, tomorrow, Grayson (Tom&#8217;s boss who turned him in), lonesome, white oak tree; contractions: I&#8217;ll (I will), hadn&#8217;t (had not), I&#8217;d (I would); abbreviation: hangin&#8217; (hanging); southern USA vocabulary: reckon (thought)<\/li>\n<li class=\"style6\"><strong>Recorder<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong class=\"intermediate\">intermediate<\/strong><\/em><\/span>: playing in F Major, syncopation, ascending and descending submediant arpeggios (vi, Dm), pentatonic scale, practicing pitches in the lower register<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"style12\"><span class=\"style2\">Based on the 1866 murder of a woman named Laura Foster in Wilkes County, North Carolina. 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