Author: Helen CreightonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk songs
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Maritime Folk Songs
Author: Helen CreightonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk songs
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Lake Rhymes: Folk Songs of the Great Lakes Region
Author: Lee MurdockPublisher:
ISBN: 9780975866924
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
18 traditional and contemporary songs of Great Lakes history, primarily nautical history, including songs about the building of the Erie Canal in NY and the I&M Canal in IL, sea chanteys, tall tales, anthems, ballads and shipwreck songs and stories. Includes an 18-song, 72 minute Compact Disc of all songs, recorded by author, Lee Murdock; plus musical scores for all 18 songs; historical background; vocabulary; 82 photos, maps and illustrations; teacher guide including study questions, suggested activities, and exercise worksheets.
Windjammers
Author: Ivan WaltonPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814329962
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
White-winged schooners once dominated commerce and culture on the Great Lakes, and songs relieved the hours on board, but that way of life and its music ended when steam-driven mechanical boats swept schooners from the inland seas. Recognizing in the late 1930s, almost too late, that this rich oral tradition was going to the grave along with the last generation of schoonermen, Ivan H. Walton undertook a quest to save the songs of the Great Lakes sailors. Racing time and its ravages, he searched out ancient mariners in lakefront hospitals, hangouts, and watering holes. Walton reconstructed songs from one of the most colorful periods in American history, discovering melodies and lyrics to more than a hundred songs. With its stories, lyrics, musical scores by folksinger/historian Lee Murdock, and accompanying CD, Windjammers ensures that sailing chanteys that have not been heard for over one hundred years can be heard again and again far into the future.
Songs of French Canada
Author: Lawrence Johnstone BurpeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, French
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Shanty Book
Author: Richard Runciman TerryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sea songs
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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.
Maritime Folk Songs
Author: Helen CreightonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk music
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Old Salem in Ballad and Song
Author: Robert E. StromPublisher:
ISBN: 9780578640402
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Old Salem in Ballad and Song is a collection of ballads and songs that have roots in Salem Massachusetts' history through the oral and the written tradition. The songs, ballads and broadsides describe events and give a hint of Salem's past and its influence in helping to shape America, both politically and socially. The book traces the history of Salem not only through ballads and songs but vintage photographs, postcards and newspaper clippings. The book can be a learning tool to teach Salem's history through singing. The rich material unearthed laid the foundation for Old Salem in Ballad and Song. In the introduction, the author examines the role ballads and songs played in chronicling current events and saving them for posterity. The pages that follow are crammed with lyrics, verses, musical scores, illustrations and historical tidbits relating to works with Salem connections. Some names will be familiar to many readers. Famed 19th century bandleader Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore, who wrote the best-known version of When Johnny Comes Marching Home, led the Salem Brass Band from 1855 until 1858. The equally famous Hutchinson Family Singers performed at a New England Anti-Slavery Society convention held in Salem in 1844, and the group's temperance song King Alcohol, says the author, was inspired by the town's controversial Deacon Giles Distillery. And while Manuel Fenollosa is hardly a household name, the Salem composer's Emancipation Hymn (1863) was one of the most popular tunes of the Civil War era.
Songs of Ships & Sailors
Author: Julia LanePublisher: Bygone Ballads of Maine
ISBN: 9781935243786
Category : Folk music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
More than 160 songs drawn from recordings and archives of Maine singers and collectors; powerful stories of sailing, fishing, storms, shipwreck, piracy, sea battles, and loved ones left at home. With lyrics, tunes, and historical notes,
Studies in Folk-song and Popular Poetry
Author: Alfred Mason WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk songs
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description