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Shanties from the Seven Seas
$19.95 23.34 euro
bk008
Stan Hugill
Once again in print, Stan Hugill's definitive book on the sailor's work songs that Americans call chanteys and Britons call shanties contains more than 400 songs, their music, and much more. In giving the histories of these songs, Stan Hugill gives us fascinating details of his own life as deepwater sailor and song-collector, of the vessels and ports and working routines of the sailing-ship era, of sea fact and sea folklore. This book includes many types of sea songs, grouped in five main chapters and 34 subchapters, and gives variants of songs, migrations of songs and tunes from one nation's ships to others, and relationships to other shanties, to African-American songs, to other kinds of work songs, to shore songs, to foreign-language songs of sea and shore.
(1994) 6 "x 9", xxiii plus 428 pages, 16 illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index.
ISBN 0-913372-70-6 aper)
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This splendid tome, expertly illustrated by the author, is one of the most comprehensive and authoritative of the many collections of sailors' songs published over the past nine decades.– The Log of Mystic Seaport
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Songs of the Sailor book
$9.95 11.64 euro
bk014
Compiled and Edited by Glen Grasso
Mystic Seaport's interpretation programs include a strong sea music component represented by a staff of eight musicians. This book of chanteys, spiral-bound to open flat for music-stand or other placement, consists of 25 classic sea songs and some of their variants, accompanied by musical notations made by Marc Bernier and explanatory notes from Glenn Grasso. The notes cover some of the history of these songs, and explain how they are used at Mystic Seaport to accompany ship- work done by the Museum's Demonstration Squad. This attractive book is a perfect introduction to the chanteys deepwater sailormen sang as they did their work.
(1998) 8" x 10", 67 pages, 9 illustrations, glossary bibliography.
ISBN 0-913372-84-6 (paper)
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The Canaller's Songbook (Book)
$11.95 13.98 euro
BK001
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Boxing the Compass
$24.95 29.19 euro
bk026
Compiled and Edited Roy Palmer
There are over 160 songs in this new edition, four of them not included in the original Oxford collection. They are all presented in "complete" versions along with their melody lines, as well as with historical notes which Palmer has, in some cases, rewritten or corrected. It"s this aspect of "Boxing the Compass" which makes it appealing to non-singers. If, for instance, you"ve always enjoyed John Renbourn"s recording of"Lord Franklin,‚" then you can look up the song (listed as"Lady Franklin"s Lament) and gain a much clearer understanding of what the song"s about. If, however, you are a singer, then this book"s simply indispensable. It"s one thing learning a song verbatim from a recording and quite another acquiring the necessary knowledge and experience to really get inside it. Palmer"s been researching and singing this material for many years, so a few hours spent with his book can really do wonders for anyone"s performance.
"The reader and singer of sea songs will find in thee pages an ample cargo of fine old songs many of which are rarely seen in print,. The book comes as a most welcome contribution to sea singing and sea history."
William Main Doerflinger
"There are any amount of good songs worth the singing within it's covers"
Bill Meek
(2001) 6" x 8", 342 pages, index of titles and first lines, glossary bibliography.
ISBN 0-9540682-0-3 (paper)
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