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Beginners syncopation, extended range, two part harmony
(6th’s and 3rd’s), feeling duple meter (2) in 6/8.
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Description
- Grade: Fifth
- Origin: German/English 1818 – USA – 1844
( F. D, Benteen – Baltimore, Maryland) - Key: G Major
- Time: 6/8
- Form: AB – verse/refrain
- Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti ti ti | ti ti ti ta (ti) |
syncopation, | ti ti ti ta ti | syncopation, |
| ta/ (ta) ti | ti ti ti ta/ | ta/ (ta) (ti) | ta/a/ ti | - Pitches: intermediate: Mi Fa So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa
- Intervals: intermediate: So/Do (P4), La\Fa (M3), Re\Ti (M3), Mi/So (m3), Do/Mi8 (M3), Fa8\Re (m3), Mi8\Do (M3)
- Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter, eighth; pickup beat, syncopation, verse/refrain, tied notes, two part harmony: major and minor sixths, major and minor thirds, perfect fourth; singing in parts, 6/8 time: eighth note receives one beat, divisions of a dotted quarter note: three eights (3 ti’s), feeling duple meter (2) in 6/8: where three eights would be a triplet if the beat is represented by a dotted quarter
- Key Words: world geography: England, Germany (each documented as country of origin, 1818), USA geography: first published in 1844 by F. D, Benteen of Baltimore, Maryland; French: viva l’amour (long live love), viva la compagnie (long live the company: army unit); character education, fellow, success, friend, fellowship, wider, circle, expands, comrades, far away lands, banish troubles, occasion, compel, enliven, heart, military song, scout song, camp song, fellowship song; contractions: we’ll (we will), won’t (will not); abbreviation: ev’ry (every)
- Recorder: advanced: introducing high F,syncopation, playing in two parts, two part harmony: major and minor sixths, major and minor thirds, perfect fourth; singing in parts, 6/8 time: eighth note receives one beat, divisions of a dotted quarter note: three eights (3 ti’s), feeling duple meter (2) in 6/8: where three eights would be a triplet if the beat is represented by a dotted quarter
| 1. | Let ev’ry good fellow now join in a song, Viva la compagnie! Success to each other and pass it along, Viva la compagnie! |
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| Viva la, viva la, viva l’amour, Viva la, viva la, viva l’amour, Viva l’amour, viva l’amour, Viva la compagnie! |
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A friend on your left, and a friend on your right, Viva la compagnie! In love and good fellowship, let us unite, Viva la compagnie! |
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| 3. | Now wider and wider, our circle expands, Viva la compagnie! We’ll sing to our comrades, in far away lands, Viva la compagnie! |
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| 4. | With friends all around us, we’ll sing out our song, Viva la compagnie! We’ll banish our troubles, it won’t take us long, Viva la compagnie! |
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| 5. | Should time or occasion, compel us to part, Viva la compagnie! These days shall forever, enliven our heart, Viva la compagnie! |
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