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Advanced, intermediate, and beginning syncopation,
practicing rhythms and enunciation (diction),
while discovering dynamic variations.
Description
- Grade: Fifth
- Origin: USA – African American Spiritual
- Key: B Flat Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: rhythm: AAaB CCcB – pitches: ABAC DED C – song: AB, verse/refrain
- Rhythm: advanced: | ti ti ri ti ti ti ti ti ti | syncopation, | ti ta ti ta (ta) | syncopation,
| ti ta ti ta ti ti | syncopation, | ta/ ti ti ta ti | syncopation, | ti ta ti ti ta ti | syncopation,
| ti/ ri ti ti ta (ta) | ti/ ri ti ti ta ti ti | - Pitches: beginners: So La Ti Do Re Mi
- Intervals: beginners: La/Do (m3), Do\La (m3), Mi\Do/Mi (M3)
- Musical Elements: notes: Dotted half, dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, sixteenth; rest: quarter; repeated melodic rhythm patterns, pausing on the supertonic (Re), syncopation, verse/refrain; note: repeated pitch and rhythm patterns encourage dynamic changes; challenge students to adjust dynamics, including crescendos/decrescendos, discovering which dynamics best match each musical phrase
- Key Words: USA history, African American history, sacred, spiritual, southern spiritual, Lord, beyond the blue, remember, glory land, outshines, sun, African American History Month (February)
- Recorder: advanced: all levels of syncopation, discovering dynamics which best match the repeated pitch and rhythm patterns/phrases
| 1. | When chilly winds blow from the North, I’ve got to go; When chilly winds blow from the North, I’ve got to go; When chilly winds blow from the North, I’ve got to go; Look away beyond the blue. |
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| Do Lord, oh do Lord, oh do remember me; Do Lord, oh do Lord, oh do remember me; Do Lord, oh do Lord, oh do remember me; Look away beyond the blue. |
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I’ve got a home in glory land that outshines the sun; I’ve got a home in glory land that outshines the sun; I’ve got a home in glory land that outshines the sun; Look away beyond the blue. |
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| Do Lord, oh do Lord, oh do remember me; Do Lord, oh do Lord, oh do remember me; Do Lord, oh do Lord, oh do remember me; Look away beyond the blue. |
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