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Want to Be in Heaven When the First Trumpet Sounds

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Analysis

Song Analysis

Grade Level 7 - HS	Tonal Center do
Scale _None	Range P8
Tone Set s.l. Drm sl	Melodic Motive(s)
Melodic Elements	Melodic Context
Rhythmic Element(s)
Original Starting Pitch Eb	Partwork
Form Analysis AA'BA'	Form Type Strophic with refrain

Rhythm Set

ta
ti-ti
ta-a
syn-co-pa
tim-ri
ta-a-a
ri-tim
eighth rest

Source
Library of Congress AFS1034 A2. Collected by John A. Lomax.

Informant/Performer
Lillie and Thelma Knox, Murrells Inlet, SC, 1957

State
South Carolina

Region
South

Origin
African-American

Song Type(s)
Folk Hymn

Game Types

Sub-Game Types

Sub-Game Types

Figures

Subject(s)
Religious

Sub Subject

Alternate Titles
Wants to be in Heaven When the First Trumpet Sounds

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