Author: William Curran ReedyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Blue Sea Ballads and Chanties
Author: William Curran ReedySailor Song
Author: Gerry SmythPublisher:
ISBN: 9780712353700
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Passed down in the oral tradition and sung traditionally as working songs, sea shanties tell the human stories of life at sea: hard graft, battling the elements, the loss of ships or pining for a lady on shore. Its pages decorated with hand-drawn or wood-cut illustrations from celebrated artist Jonny Hannah, Sailor Song addresses the current modern revival of sea shanties, and seeks to celebrate and to explore the historical, musical and social history of the traditional sea song through 40 beautiful, mournful, haunting and uplifting shanties. Acclaimed shanty devotee Gerry Smyth presents the background to each one alongside musical notation. The lyrics are elaborated with explanations of terminology, context including historical facts and accounts of life at sea, and the characters, both fictional and non-fictional, that appear in the songs from the great age of sail to the last days of square-rig. Where appropriate, a direct digital link is made to a shanty recording in the British Library Sound Archive.
Shanties from the Seven Seas
Author: Stan HugillPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493068288
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
This book contains not only more than 400 sea shanties but as much of their history as Stan Hugill could collect in his extraordinary career as sailor, scholar, author, artist, and inspiration to new generations of sea-music enthusiasts and performers.
The Book of Sea Shanties
Author: Nathan EvansPublisher: Welbeck Publishing
ISBN: 9781787399587
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Music of the Waters
Author: Laura Alexandrine SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ocean
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
"Fresh as the breezes of that ocean to which they owe their inspiration, the 'chanties' and songs here collected come to us as a most interesting and unique contribution to our literature of the sea. For this volume contains no mere study-compilation of more or less authentic sea ditties, mingled with the nautical effusions of landsmen. It is original in its conception and execution. With one or two trifling exceptions, it is a collection of what may be styled 'the genuine article'--not the creation of landsmen written for or about sailors, but the actual 'working songs' of the sea that were in use at the present time. Still further, this book contains not merely the ditties of our own Jack Tars, but a selection of the sea-songs of nearly all maritime nations, translated and ably commented on, from a literary, musical, and nautical point of view, together with a good deal of interesting information regarding them." --Introductory note.
The Music of the Waters
Author: Laura Alexandrine SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ocean
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Sea Shanties
Author: Karen DolbyPublisher: Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN: 1789293774
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
A rousing collection of the most memorable and feel-good shanties in maritime history.
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Author: Edward A. Perkins