All Around the Race-Track
Listen Analysis
Song Analysis
Grade Level
2 - 4
Tonal Center
do
Scale
Hexachord
Range
M9
Tone Set
s,l, Drmfsl
Melodic Motive(s)
m.md.l,.s,
m.mf.s.z
Melodic Elements
fa
Melodic Context
m-f-s
Rhythmic Element(s)
syn-co-pa Practice
 
 
Original Starting Pitch
A
Partwork
Form Analysis
AAB
Form Type
Strophic with refrain
Rhythm Set
ta
ti-ti
ta-a
syn-co-pa
tie
rest
anacrusis
other

Source

Library of Congress AFS 349 A3. Collected by Alan Lomax, Zora Neale Hurston and Mary Elizabeth Barnicle.



Informant/Performer
Group of girls, Eatonville, FL, 1935

State
Florida

Region
South

Origin
African-American

Song Type(s)
Singing Game


Game Types
Circle


Sub-Game Types
Circle/Ring Play


Sub-Game Types

Figures


Subject(s)
Food and Drink


Sub Subject

Alternate Titles

General Comments