674. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

674 Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.' Sung by Miss Hattie McNeill, Ferguson,  Wilkes county, in 1922. No text is given in the ms score. For additional  texts cf. Ford 401; Owen 102; BTFLS 1923, 43, and APPS 337. No. 113  (first stanza and chorus). The tune of the chorus resembles very closely  that of a Czechish Dance : Polka.
F-573

 For melodic relationship cf. *Ford 5.

Scale: Heptachordal, plagal. Tonal Center: g. Structure: ababcc (2,2,2,2,2,2)  = aab (4,4,4) = rnmn = barform. In the smaller subdivision, b shares the  initial measure with a.