- Grade: Fifth
- Origin: USA – words: Edward Madden
music: Gus Edwards, circa. 1909
- Key: A Flat Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: phrases: ABACD – chorus: AB
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ti (ti) ti/ ri ti/ ri ta | ti (ti) ta ta ta | ti (ti) ti ti ti ti ta | ta/a ta/a | ta/a/a ti/ ri | ta ta ta ta | ta ti/ ri ti/ ri ta | ta/a/a/a |
- Pitches: intermediate: mi fa so la ti do re mi fa
- Intervals: intermediate: so/do (P4), do\la (m3), la/re (P4), ti\so (m3), la\mi (P4), mi/so\mi (m3), re/fa8 (m3) do/mi (M3), note: the placement of the minor thirds and the change to a major third at the end, just before landing on the tonic, do
- Musical Elements: notes: whole, dotted half, half, quarter, dotted eighth, sixteenth; rest: eighth; pickup beat, tied notes, melodic rhythm patterns, vocal slur, use of minor third intervals, melody centered around the dominant (so) before arriving at the tonic (do)
- Key Words: USA history, Tin Pan Alley, turn of the century, ballad, courting song, silvery, moon, spoon, honey, croon, tune, honeymoon, beams, moon beams, dreams, cuddling; abbreviation: silv’ry (silvery); possessive love’s; echo singing
- Recorder: intermediate: tied whole notes at the end of phrases foster breath support
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