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"Now We Shall A-Feasting Go"
       
     
"Now We Shall A-Feasting Go"
 


"Now We Shall A-Feasting Go," Lyrics, Text Format



Straight and dotted syncopation, practicing the higher register,
begin singing in two parts.

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Description
 
  • Grade: Fourth

  • Origin: Iceland - Folk Song

  • Key: A minor - pitched in C Major

  • Time: 2/4

  • Form: ABaCCC

  • Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti | ti ti ta | |ta (ta) |
    | ti/ ri ti ti | dotted syncopation | ta/a |
    | ti ri ti ti ti | straight syncopation | ta/ (ti) |

  • Pitches: intermediate: La Ti Do Re Mi Fa - extended high register practice

  • Intervals: intermediate: La/Do, Mi\Do/Mi, Re\La, Ti/Mi (diminished fourth, d4=M3), La/Mi (perfect fifth, P5)

  • Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; rests: quarter, eighth; pickup beat, dotted and straight syncopation, two part, singing in parts, fermata, minor tonality where the tonic is the sixth (La) of the relative major: C; tempo: allegretto: moderately fast (98–109 BPM), poco meno mosso: little less rapid (slower)

  • Key Words: world geography: Iceland, sacred, Christmas, holiday season, European history, holiday feast, feasting, free, care, King Pipin, Olof, daughter, fair, dance, sing, merrily, putting, aside; Christmas Tide, abbreviation ev'ry (every)

 
 


"Now We Shall A-Feasting Go"


Now we shall a-feasting go,
Free from ev'ry care,
Singing of King Pipin,
A
nd Olof, his daughter fair;
Let us dance merrily,
Putting time aside.
Who knows where we dance,
The coming Christmas tide?

 

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