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MUSIC LITERACY FACT SHEET TITLE 1. A LA NANITA NANA -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------STYLE PERIOD/GENRE 1. Christmas carol 2. choral sacred music -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------COMPOSER/ARRANGER/EDITOR 1. Traditional Spanish Carol 2. Segundo Cueva Celi 3. arranged by Roger Folstrom -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------COMPOSER INFO 1. this is a traditional Spanish carol--a 'nana,' or lullaby--to the Christ child. A la nanita nana is actually an Ecuadorian villancico (Christmas carol) by Segundo Cueva Celi a celebrated composer from the city of Loja. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------TEXT 1. Spanish and English 2. a lullaby – ‘a la nanita nana’ actually has no translation 3. Changing the single word “Jesu” to another name makes the song ‘secular’ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SOUND 1. piano/guitar/harp accompaniment 2. choral music 3. SATB Choir -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------HARMONY 1. constant shifting from Major to minor chord structure makes the song interesting to the ear. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------MELODY 1. prominent 2. stepwise -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------RHYTHM 1. strong 3/4 pulse 2. fits with the text, the rocking of a lullaby -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------GROWTH/FORM 1. strophic – structure of a piece of music based on the repetition of one formal section or block played repeatedly, where the text repeats the same rhyme scheme from one stanza to the next, the accompanying music for each stanza is either the same or very similar from one stanza to the next. 2. A coda = a closing passage generally added to the end of a composition. A coda’s function is generally to provide a strong conclusion to the work, giving the piece a grander sense of finality. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------TIME SIGNATURE 1. 3/4 time signature 2. four beats per measure, quarter note equals one beat. 3. ‘Andante’ - moving along, flowing, at a walking pace -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------KEY SIGNATURE 1. E Major/E minor shifting…but ends Major -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------NOTEWORTHY 1. carol - a term applied today, in English, to any Christmas song, also meaning: to sing joyously
