Frog Went a-Courtin' #2
Listen Analysis
Song Analysis
Grade Level
2 - 5
Tonal Center
do
Scale
Pentatonic
Range
M9
Tone Set
s,l, Drm sl
Melodic Motive(s)
s.s.lm.s
Melodic Elements
Melodic Context
Rhythmic Element(s)
ti-tiri Tuning
 
 
Original Starting Pitch
B
Partwork
Form Analysis
AA'5B
Form Type
Strophic with refrain
Rhythm Set
ta
ti-ti
ti-tiri
rest

Source

Library of Congress AFS 01741 A1. Collected by Alan and Elizabeth Lomax. 



Informant/Performer
Ethel Bryant Niemeyer, Evansville, IN, 1938

State
Indiana

Region
Midwest

Origin
Anglo-American

Song Type(s)
Story


Game Types


Sub-Game Types


Sub-Game Types

Figures


Subject(s)
Animals


Sub Subject
Frog

Alternate Titles
Frog He Would a-Wooing Go

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