Alexander Keiser

T132 | SPRING 2020 | HW #6 NAME: __________________________________

AI: __________________________________
Danur K

Homework Assignment #6
30 points Due Monday, April 20, 2020

In this assignment, you’ll complete a few exercises for a Simon and Garfunkel song. Please scan your completed
assignment and submit it via Canvas by Monday, April 20, at 11:59pm.

Part 1:
Listen to the recording “HW #6” on Canvas. Then write the scale degrees of the vocal melody above the
corresponding lyrics. I have underlined the lyrics where a second voice enters. In these areas, be sure to provide
scale degrees for both vocal parts that you hear.
Hint: In the second line, one of the voices sings a chromatically lowered version of a diatonic scale degree.
Label this scale degree with a down arrow.

5̂ 3 5 653

I’m sitting in the railway station, got a ticket for my destination.

6̂

4̂ 5 4
5 4

On a tour of one-night stands my suitcase and guitar in hand.

5 6 5 1 2 3 321

And every stop is neatly planned for a poet and a one-man band.

171 76 56521 171 76

Homeward bound, I wish I was, Homeward bound,

3 43 21 3

Home, where my thought’s escaping, Home, where my music’s playing,

T132 | SPRING 2020 | HW #6 NAME: __________________________________
AI: __________________________________

Home, where my love lies waiting Silently for me.

Part 2:
Please list the grouping, division, and a possible time signature for the above song. Then, based on what you
hear in the music, list 2 ways that the music suggests the meter you identified. Be specific!
Hint: Consider instrumental parts, melodic phrases, and harmonic changes. What creates the sense of strong
beats and weak beats?

• Grouping:

• Division:

• Possible time signature:

1)

2)