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It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't got That Swing)



Time Signature
  • 4/4
Cross Curricular
  • Dance
Theme
  • Music
Style
  • Jazz
Articulation
  • Staccato
  • Tenuto
  • Tie
Tempo
  • Fast
  • Slow
Dynamics
  • Crescendo
  • Forte
  • Mezzo Forte
  • Mezzo Piano
Form
  • Introduction
Movement Type
  • Choreography
  • Riser Choreography
Voicing
  • Unison w/opt. Harmony
Language
  • English
Rhythm
  • Beamed Quavers
  • Crotchet
  • Crotchet Rest
  • Dotted Crotchet
  • Minim
  • Minim Rest
  • Quaver-Crotchet-Quaver Syncopation
  • Semibreve
  • Single Quaver
Year Group
  • Year 4+
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Year 2
Lesson 5: Rests
Year 4
Lesson 16: Identifying Genre
Year 4
Year 5
Lesson 27: Faster and Slower
Year 6
Lesson 8: Mixed Metres
Instrument Units
Listening Maps
Lesson : Listening Maps
Demo Group
Lesson 2: Mark is Developing
Disney Music Activities (EYFS & KS1)
Disney Music Activities (EYFS & KS1)
Disney Music Activities (EYFS & KS1)
Musicals
Musicals
Musicals
Lesson 4: The Power of Music
Musicals
Lesson 0: Winter Jam

Words and Music by Duke Ellington and Irving Mills
Arranged by Tom Anderson

Copyright © 1932 (Renewed 1959) and Assigned to Famous Music LLC and EMI Mills Music Inc. in the U.S.A.
This arrangement Copyright © 2007 by Famous Music LLC and EMI Mills Music Inc. in the U.S.A.
Rights for the world outside the U.S.A. Controlled by EMI Mills Music Inc. (Publishing) and Alfred Publishing Co., Inc. (Print)
International Copyright Secured All Rights Reserved


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