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The American Folk Song Collection
Let's Go to Canaan
Listen Analysis
Song Analysis
Grade Level
7 - HS		 Tonal Center
do
Scale
_None		 Range
m7
Tone Set
l, Drrimfis		 Melodic Motive(s)
Melodic Elements
Melodic Context
Rhythmic Element(s)
  
 
Original Starting Pitch
C 		Partwork
2-part song - 
Form Analysis
AA'BA'		 Form Type
Verse-chorus
Rhythm Set
ta
ti-ti
ta-a
rest
anacrusis
other

Source

Library of Congress AFS 903 B2. Collected by John A. Lomax.



Informant/Performer
Lillie and Minnie Know, Murrells Inlet, SC, 1937

State
South Carolina

Region
South

Origin
African-American

Song Type(s)
Spiritual


Game Types


Sub-Game Types


Sub-Game Types

Figures


Subject(s)
Religious
Historical


Sub Subject
Freedom and Civil Rights

Alternate Titles
Let's Go to Cane-yun

General Comments

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