• Grade: Fourth
• Origin: USA - Stephen Foster (1826-1864), circa. 1851
• Key: C Major
• Time: 4/4
• Form: staves: AaBa - song: AAB, verse/chorus
• Rhythm: intermediate: | ta/a ti ti ti ti | ta ta ti ta/|
  syncopation, | ta/a ta ta | ta/a/a (ta) | ta ti/ ri ta ta | syncopation, | ta/ ti ta ta | syncopation, | ta ti/ ri ta ti/ ri | syncopation
• Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do Re - extended range
• Intervals: advanced: Do/Mi, Do/Do8 ascending tonic octave skip, Do8\La/Do8 (m3), Do8\So\Mi\Do descending tonic (I) arpeggio, Do/Ti (M7), Re\So (P5), So/Do (P4), Do\La\Fa descending subdominant (IV) arpeggio (F Major), Fa/La (M3)
• Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; rest: quarter, repeat sign, verse/chorus, syncopation, tonic octave skip, tonic and sub-dominate arpeggios, major seventh interval Do/Ti, phrase markings for breath control.
• Key Words: USA history, minstrel song, USA geography: Florida, state song of Florida, Christy Minstrels, Stephen Foster, pining for home, longing for home, life in the Southern United States, far far away, creation, sadly, roam, longing, plantation, sad and weary, Lordy, farm. wandered, squandered, songs, sung, playing, brother, mother, live and die, among, hut, bushes, rushes, rove, bee's a humming, comb, banjo; contractions: there's (there is), ev'rywhere (everywhere); abbreviations: 'round (around), mem'ry (memory), strummin' (strumming) possessive: folk's

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