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Hush, Little Baby
Listen Analysis
Song Analysis
Grade Level
PK - 3
Tonal Center
do
Scale
Tetratonic
Range
m7
Tone Set
s, Drm
Melodic Motive(s)
Melodic Elements
fa Practice
Melodic Context
m-f
Rhythmic Element(s)
ti-tiri Tuning
 
 
Original Starting Pitch
F
Partwork
Form Analysis
aa'
Form Type
Strophic
Rhythm Set
ta
ti-ti
ti-tiri
tiri-tiri

Source
Library of Congress AFS 878 B1. Collected by John A. Lomax and Ruby Terrill Lomax.

Informant/Performer
Annie Brewer, Montgomery, AL, 1937

State
Alabama

Region
South

Origin
Anglo-American

Song Type(s)
Lullaby


Game Types


Sub-Game Types


Sub-Game Types

Figures


Subject(s)
Sleep and Waking


Sub Subject

Alternate Titles
Hush Li'l Baby
Mockingbird, The

General Comments
Also in Lomax, Alan and John A. Our Singing Country and Erdei, Peter and Katalin Komlos, eds. 150 American Folk Songs to Sing, Read and Play