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Beginners syncopation in the pentatonic scale while distinguishing the ascending intervals Mi/So from Mi/La.
Description
- Grade: Fourth
- Origin: USA – Southern Appalachian Folk Song
- Key: F Major
- Time: 2/4
- Form: staves: AaAaB – song AB verse/chorus
- Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti ri | ti ti ta |
| ti ti ti ti | ti/ ri ti ti | syncopation - Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi So La – pentatonic scale
- Intervals: intermediate: Mi/So, So\Mi, Mi/La, Do/Mi
- Musical Elements: notes: quarter, dotted eighth, eighth; repeat sign, verse/chorus
- Key Words: USA geography, Southern Appalachia, earth science: poplar (fast growing tree in southern USA); trough (a long, narrow open container for animals to eat or drink from), silver spoon, kicked, over the moon, dead and gone, jawbones, plowing
| 1. | Fed my horse in a poplar trough, Fed my horse in a poplar trough, Fed my horse in a poplar trough, Then she caught the whooping cough. |
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| Coy malindo Killko, killko: Coy malindo Killko me. |
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Fed my horse in a silver spoon, Fed my horse in a silver spoon, Fed my horse in a silver spoon, And then he kicked it over the moon. |
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| 3. | My old horse is dead and gone, My old horse is dead and gone, My old horse is dead and gone, But he left his jawbones plowing the corn. |
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