Cadence Structure
Row Row Row Your Boat
Nursery Rhyme
When I was trying to find a tune to identify the cadence it was a little difficult at first. I then started to look at some nursery rhymes that had two phrases with different cadence endings. I had gone through about 4 or 5 nursery rhymes and then found this cute, kids version of "Row Row Row Your Boat". I started to sing along with the song and re-played it a couple times singing do re mi fa sol la ti do along with the tune. When I had identified the two phrases I noticed that the first phrase ended on sol or scale degree 5, meaning it was an imperfect authentic cadence (IAC). The second phrase ended on do making it a perfect authentic cadence (PAC). I drew out this phrase digram to help me:
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