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C. al Fine, Fine, call\/response<\/li>\n<li><strong>Key<\/strong> <strong>Words<\/strong>: Jamaica, Calypso, dock workers song, banana workers song, daylight comes and work is done, counting banana bunches, tally man: contractions: han\u2019 (hand), wanna (want to), \u2018til (until)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Selecting All Formats includes<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Individual Song Formats<\/strong>; music, beats, rhythm, pitch numbers, solfeggio, pitch letter names, text\/lyrics<br \/>\n<strong>Scrolling Song Formats: <\/strong>one file &#8211; all formats<br \/>\n<strong>Song Description<\/strong>: grade, origin, key, time, form, difficulty levels for rhythm, pitches, intervals; musical elements, key words, song lyrics<br \/>\n<strong>MP3 audio of melody<\/strong> (accompaniment where available)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Banana Boat Song<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Advanced<\/span> Calypso syncopated rhythms, descending dominant seventh arpeggio, descending tonic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicyoucanread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/octaves.mov\">octave<\/a> skip, and an ascending minor sixth.\u2028<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":24500,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[22],"product_tag":[7505,7501,1409,7503,6342,6343,7502,6153,2571,6109,2725,7506,7504],"class_list":{"0":"post-24484","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-fifth-grade-songs","7":"product_tag-ascending-dominant-seventh-arpeggio","8":"product_tag-banana-workers-song","9":"product_tag-calypso","10":"product_tag-counting-banana-bunches","11":"product_tag-d-c-al-fine","12":"product_tag-da-capo-al-fine","13":"product_tag-daylight-comes-and-work-is-done","14":"product_tag-descending-tonic-octave-skip","15":"product_tag-dock-workers-song","16":"product_tag-extended-range","17":"product_tag-jamaica","18":"product_tag-syncopated-rhtyhms","19":"product_tag-tally-man","20":"pa_songs-all-formats","21":"pa_songs-beats","22":"pa_songs-letter-names","23":"pa_songs-music","24":"pa_songs-pitch-numbers","25":"pa_songs-rhythm","26":"pa_songs-solfeggio","27":"pa_songs-text","29":"first","30":"instock","31":"purchasable","32":"product-type-variable","33":"has-default-attributes"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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