• Grade: Fifth
• Origin: England – Sea Chantey*
• Key: A minor (pitched in C Major)
• Time: 3/4
• Form: phrases: AaBC – song: AA – verse/chorus
• Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta ta | ta/a ti/ ri | ta/a ta | ti ti ta ti/ ri|
• Pitches: advanced: mi fi si la ti do re mi – raised/sharp subdominant (fi), raised/sharp dominant (si) functions as the leading tone for the parallel major (A Major)
• Intervals: advanced: mi/la (P4), la\si/la (m2),
  si\mi (M3), la/re (P4), ti/mi (P4), mi\la (P5),ti\si (M3), si\fi(M2), fi\mi (M2), mi/mi8 ascending mediate octave skip
• Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; pickup beat, sharp subdominant (Fi, F#), sharp dominate (Si, G#), tempo: allegretto/moderately fast (98-109 BPM); note: melody moves between A minor and its parallel major, A Major
• Key Words: world geography: Spain, England, Downs, Dodman, Rame Head, Plymouth, Start, Portland, Wight, Beachy, Fairlight, Dover (Dungeness), South Foreland, Ushant, Scilly; French word: adieu (long goodbye); ladies, received, Old England, short-time, rant, roar, British sailors, salt sea, strike surrounding, English Channel, sea leagues, hove (past of heave), ship, deep soundings, fathoms, squared the main yard, bore up; contractions: we’ll (we will), ’twas (it was); abbreviation: sou’west (southwest)
• Recorder: advanced: introducing F# and G#, played in a minor tonality

* Describing a voyage from Spain to the Downs.

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