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Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child #2

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Analysis

Song Analysis

Grade Level 7 - HS	Tonal Center do
Scale Major	Range P8
Tone Set Drmfsltd'	Melodic Motive(s)
Melodic Elements	Melodic Context
Rhythmic Element(s)
Original Starting Pitch G	Partwork
Form Analysis ABACC'	Form Type Strophic with refrain

Rhythm Set

ta
ta-a
syn-co-pa
tim-ri
ta-a-a
ri-tim
other

Source
Library of Congress AFS 702 B. Collected by John A. Lomax.

Informant/Performer
Annie May Jefferson and Ozella Jones, State Farm, Raiford, FL, 1936

State
Florida

Region
South

Origin
African-American

Song Type(s)
Lament
Spiritual

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Figures

Subject(s)
Death and Afterlife

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