The Merry Golden Tree by Jean Ritchie Song Details

Jean Ritchie's ' "The Merry Golden Tree" was released on its scheduled release date, April 22, 2003. The duration of This song is about two minutes long, specifically at 2:11. This song does not appear to have any foul language. The Merry Golden Tree's duration is considered a little bit shorter than the average duration of a typical track. The track order of this song in Jean Ritchie's "Jean Ritchie: Ballads from her Appalachian Family Tradition" album is number 7 out of 16. The Merry Golden Tree is not that popular right now. Even with the track produces more of a neutral energy, it is pretty danceable compared to others.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of The Merry Golden Tree by Jean Ritchie to be Andante (at a walking pace) because the track has a tempo of 78 BPM, a half-time of 39BPM, and a double-time of 156 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is slow. The time signature for this track is 1/4.

Music Key

This song is in the music key of E♭ Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 5B. So, the perfect camelot match for 5B would be either 5B or 6A. While, 6B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 2B and a high energy boost can either be 7B or 12B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 5A or 4B will give you a low energy drop, 8B would be a moderate one, and 3B or 10B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 2A allows you to change the mood.

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