Fare Ye Well, My Darling
Listen Analysis
Song Analysis
Grade Level
7 - HS
Tonal Center
la
Scale
Hexatonic
Range
P12
Tone Set
m, s,L, drm slt
Melodic Motive(s)
Melodic Elements
la, Practice
Melodic Context
l,-s
Rhythmic Element(s)
 
 
Original Starting Pitch
D
Partwork
Form Analysis
AA'BA'
Form Type
Strophic
Rhythm Set
ta
ti-ti
ta-a
ti
tim-ri
tam-ti
rest
anacrusis

Source

Library of Congress, AFS 1302 A2. Collected by John A. Lomax.



Informant/Performer
Mrs. Minnie Floyd, Murrells Inlet, SC, 1937.

State
South Carolina

Region
South

Origin
Anglo-American

Song Type(s)
Lyric


Game Types


Sub-Game Types


Sub-Game Types

Figures


Subject(s)
War and Peace
Historical


Sub Subject
Civil War

Alternate Titles
Fare You Well, My Darling
Soldier's Farewell, The

General Comments

Also in Lomax, Alan and John A. Our Singing Country.