Challenging rhythms and intervals for Christmas or Easter.

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• Grade: First
• Origin: African American Spiritual
• Key: G Major
• Time: 2/4
• Form: Verse: AAAB - Refrain: ABAC
• Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ti | ti ta (ti) | ti ti ti ti | ti ta ti ri | ta/ ti |
• Pitches: intermediate: So La Do Re Mi So
• Intervals: intermediate: La/Do, Do\So, Do/Mi, Re\So, Mi/So, So\Mi, Mi\Do, So/Do
• Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth, sixteenth; rests: quarter, eighth; pickup beat, tied notes, reinforces tonic tried (Do-Mi-So)
• Key Words: sacred, counting to ten, counting backwards from ten, Christmas, Easter, angels, band, Sunday, morning, Sunday Morning; contraction: wasn't (was not)