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The American Folk Song Collection
Threading My Grandmother's Needle
Listen Analysis
Song Analysis
Grade Level
3 - 5		 Tonal Center
do
Scale
Hexachord		 Range
M6
Tone Set
Drmfsl		 Melodic Motive(s)
Melodic Elements
Melodic Context
Rhythmic Element(s)
  
 
Original Starting Pitch
Eb 		Partwork
Form Analysis
A(aa)B(ba)A(aa)B(ba)C(cc)		 Form Type
Strophic
Rhythm Set
ta
ti
ti-ti-ti
ti-ta
tai
ti-ta
ta-ti
ri
eighth rest

Source

Flanders Ballad Collection D40A05a. Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT. Collected by Helen Hartness Falnders.



Informant/Performer
Mrs. John Fairbanks, North Springfield, VT, 1943

State
Vermont

Region
New England

Origin
Anglo-American

Song Type(s)
Singing Game


Game Types
Double Line


Sub-Game Types


Sub-Game Types

Figures


Subject(s)
Greeting and Farewell


Sub Subject

Alternate Titles

General Comments

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