- Grade: Fifth
- Origin: USA - Cowboy Ballad
- Key: D Major
- Time: 3/4
- Form: song: ABAC - descant: ABAC
- Rhythm: beginners: | ta/ ti ta | syncopation, | ta ta ta | ta/a ta | ta/a/a | ta/a (ta) |
- Pitches: intermediate: song: So Ti Do Re Mi Fa So
descant: Mi Fa So La Ti Do
- Intervals: intermediate: song: Ti\So (M3), So/Do (P4), Mi\Ti (P4), Ti/Re (m3); descant: So\Mi (m3), La/Do8 (m3)
- Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; pickup beat, vocal slur, syncopation, discant: singing in 2 parts
- Key Words: USA - history, cowboy life; USA geography: Laredo, Texas; ballad, spied, wrapped, linen, outfit, shot, chest, die, fife, drum, sod, slowly, spurs, saddle, dashing, card-house, bunk-house, dying, dead march, valley, jolly, coffin, maidens, pall, bunches, deaden, clods, rope, rattle, whoop, grave, wrong, parched lips, departed, round up, bitterly, wept, comrade, handsome, although: contraction: I'm (I am): abbreviation: o'er (over)
- Recorder: intermediate: introducing high F, B flat, melody and descant (2 parts), syncopation
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