Straight and dotted syncopation within a melody
which has no leading tone.
Description
- Grade: Fifth
- Origin: USA – Folk Song, circa. 1920’s
- Key: C Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: phrases: ABACDEF – song: AB
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta ta ta | ta ta/a ti ti |
| ta/a (ta) ti ti | ti ti ti ta ti ti | ta ti ti ta ti ti |
| ta ta ta/ ti | syncopation, | ta ta/a ti/ ri | syncopation, | ti ti ta ta ti ti | ta ta ta ti ti | - Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La Do – no leading tone: seventh (7, Ti)
- Intervals: intermediate: Mi/So (m3), La\Fa/La (M3), La/Do\La (m3), So\Re (P4), Re/Fa (m3), So\Do/So (P4), Fa/Do (P5)
- Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; pickup beat, fermata, melodic rhythm patterns
- Key Words: USA history, hobo, daydreams, “Hobo Paradise,” “Hobo Heaven,” land, fair bright, handouts, bushes, sleep, night, boxcars, empty, shines, snow, rain, wind, blow, sycamore tree, soda water, water fountain, lemonade, springs, bluebird sings; contractions: that’s (that is), doesn’t (does not), there’s (there is); abbreviation: buzzin’ (buzzing) I’m (I am), isn’t (is not)
- Recorder: intermediate: alternating repeated pitches, four measure phrases
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains*, *Hobo’s dream of paradise. |
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