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.
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.
Sailor 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.
The Sea, the Ships, and the Sailors. A Book for Boys
Author: The Book of Sea Shanties
Author: Nathan EvansPublisher: Welbeck Publishing
ISBN: 9781787399587
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Ships, Sea Songs and Shanties
Author: Shanties from the Seven Seas
Author: Stan HugillPublisher: Lyons Press
ISBN: 9781493068272
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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 Music of the Waters
Author: Laura Alexandrine SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ocean
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
The Shanty Book
Author: Richard Runciman TerryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sea songs
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Songs of the Sea & Sailors' Chanteys
Author: Robert FrothinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sea poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Songs of American Sailormen
Author: Joanna C. ColcordPublisher: Oak Publications
ISBN: 1783235144
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
In the old days when American sailing ships still plowed the seas, it was the custom of their sailors to enliven both their work and their leisure time with song. The songs they used were not, generally speaking, those current and popular ashore at the same period, but were traditional compositions of unknown date and authorship, growing as all folk-song does out of the needs and experiences of men. These songs of the sea have in every line of their verses and every bar of their music the distinctive flavor of seafaring. They are of equal interest to students of folk-lore and to those who love the memory of old days spent on blue water; and it is with both in mind that this work has been undertaken.