Oh Blue #1
Listen Analysis
Song Analysis
Grade Level
3 - 8
Tonal Center
do
Scale
Pentatonic
Range
M9
Tone Set
s,l, Drm sl
Melodic Motive(s)
Melodic Elements
so, Practice
ri Tuning
Melodic Context
m-s,
m-ri
Rhythmic Element(s)
tim-ri Practice
 
 
Original Starting Pitch
A
Partwork
Descant - .
Form Analysis
AA'
Form Type
Strophic with refrain
Rhythm Set
ta
ti-ti
ta-a
ti-tiri
tim-ri
anacrusis

Source

Library of Congress AFS 2994 B1. Collected by Herbert Halpert.



Informant/Performer
Thelma, Beatrice & Irene Scruggs, Burnsville, MS, 1939

State
Mississippi

Region
South

Origin
Anglo-American

Song Type(s)
Story


Game Types


Sub-Game Types


Sub-Game Types

Figures


Subject(s)
Animals


Sub Subject
Dog

Alternate Titles
Old Blue

General Comments

Also in Seeger, Ruth Crawford. Animal Folk Songs for Children. and Rinzler, Kate, ed. Old Mother Hippletoe. .