Shortnin' Bread
Listen Analysis
Song Analysis
Grade Level
4 - 8
Tonal Center
do
Scale
Blues
Range
P5
Tone Set
Drmamfs
Melodic Motive(s)
Melodic Elements
Melodic Context
Rhythmic Element(s)
anacrusis Practice

 
 
Original Starting Pitch
Eb
Partwork
Form Analysis
Form Type
Call-response
Rhythm Set
ta
ti-ti
ti
ti-tiri
tiri-tiri
tiri-ti
tie
anacrusis

Source
Library of Congress AFS 4017 B2. Collected by John A. and Ruby T. Lomax.

Informant/Performer
Ora Dell Graham and group, Drew, MS, 1940.

State
Mississippi

Region
South

Origin
African-American

Song Type(s)
Dance


Game Types
Circle


Sub-Game Types
Circle/Ring Play


Sub-Game Types

Figures


Subject(s)
Food and Drink


Sub Subject

Alternate Titles

General Comments
3rd degree of scale is frequently inflected. Also in Lomax, Alan, Afro-American Blues and Game Songs. AFS L4.