Author: Karen Dolby
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Published: 2021-09-16
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1789293774
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A rousing collection of the most memorable and feel-good shanties in maritime history.
Author: Stan Hugill
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2022-06-15
Total Pages: 453
ISBN-13: 1493068288
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Nathan Evans
Publisher: Welbeck Publishing
Published: 2021-10-14
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781787399587
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gerry Smyth
Publisher:
Published: 2020-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780712353700
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Gary Coover
Publisher:
Published: 2017-03-11
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780997074833
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The perfect pocket reference for sea shanties and songs of the sea from the days of the great sailing ships. One hundred thirty traditional songs with music, arranged alphabetically and sized to conveniently fit in a coat pocket, sea bag, backpack, purse or back hip pocket.Easy to learn, these favorite songs can educate or entertain, or perhaps even accompany a working tall ship crew as they turn the capstan, haul on the bowline or splice the mainbrace.Work songs, play songs and all-around fun to sing songs ¿ for the sailor, singer and pirate in everyone.
Author: Laura Alexandrine Smith
Publisher:
Published: 1888
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Richard Runciman Terry
Publisher:
Published: 2014-01-04
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781494895976
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Shanty Book Part I Sailor Sea Shanties With Lyrics and Music A shanty (also spelled "chantey," "chanty") is a type of work song that was once commonly sung to accompany labor on board large merchant sailing vessels. The term shanty most accurately refers to a specific style of work song belonging to this historical repertoire; however, in recent, popular usage, the scope of its definition is sometimes expanded to admit a wider range of repertoire and characteristics, or to refer to a "maritime work song" in general.Of uncertain etymological origin, the word shanty emerged in the mid-19th century in reference to an appreciably distinct genre of work song, developed especially in American-style merchant vessels that had come to prominence in decades prior to the American Civil War. Shanty songs functioned to economize labor in what had then become larger vessels having smaller crews and operating on stricter schedules. The practice of singing shanties eventually became ubiquitous internationally and throughout the era of wind-driven packet and clipper ships.Shanties had antecedents in the working chants of British and other national maritime traditions. They were notably influenced by songs of African Americans, such as those sung whilst manually loading vessels with cotton in ports of the southern United States. Shanty repertoire borrowed from the contemporary popular music enjoyed by sailors, including minstrel music, popular marches, and land-based folk songs, which were adapted to suit musical forms matching the various labor tasks required to operate a sailing ship. Such tasks, which usually required a coordinated group effort in either a pulling or pushing action, included weighing anchor and setting sail.