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

Time Signature

Cross Curricular

Dance

Theme

Music

Style

Jazz

Articulation

Staccato
Tenuto
Tie

Tempo

Fast
Slow

Rhythm

Beamed Quavers
Crotchet
Crotchet Rest
Dotted Crotchet
Minim
Minim Rest
Quaver-Crotchet-Quaver Syncopation
Semibreve
Single Quaver

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

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

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