There Are Children Back At Home, And The Children Have Got To Be Fed

Question 1

Dynamics - there are children back at home, and the children have got to be fed

Answer 1

Mf

Question 2

Rhythm - there are children back at home, and the children have got to be fed

Answer 2

12/8
Cross rhythms in the accompaniment are the same - 6/4 feel against the 12/8 feel helps the tension

Question 3

Pitch - there are children back at home, and the children have got to be fed

Answer 3

Same mid range in voice pitch

Question 4

Structure - there are children back at home, and the children have got to be fed

Answer 4

2 bar phrase, 3rd phrase in verse 4

Question 5

Melody - there are children back at home, and the children have got to be fed

Answer 5

‘There is’ is a 7th appoggiatura
Syncopation in end of ‘children’ in 2nd syllable
‘Back at’ - falling - storming
‘And’ is an 11th appoggiatura
‘Children have got’ = monotone for emphasis of bleakness and hardship

Question 6

Use of instruments - there are children back at home, and the children have got to be fed

Answer 6

No woodwind accompaniment under ‘children have got to be fed’ as the inner line
Staccato in the woodwind before it stops supporting

Question 7

Textures - there are children back at home, and the children have got to be fed

Answer 7

‘There are children back at home’ is sang by worker 1 only
‘And the children have got to be fed’ is sang by worker 1 and 2,

Question 8

Tonality - there are children back at home, and the children have got to be fed

Answer 8

Now in Ab major

Question 9

Harmony - there are children back at home, and the children have got to be fed

Answer 9

Phrase is antiphony from the previous phrase
‘There are’ is an anacrusis figure to start the phrase
9th appoggiatura under ‘there’ in woodwind accompaniment
Syncopation in the accompaniment under phrase helps words ‘ feeding’ and ‘children’
‘And the’ is an anacrusis figure

Question 10

Chords - there are children back at home, and the children have got to be fed

Answer 10

I -Vb(11) - I - Vb(11)
Ab - Eb/G
Two imperfect cadences = imperfect life and poverty