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The Seafaring Fiddler


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Format : Sheet music + CD

22 fiddle tunes from the golden age of sail, featuring dance tunes, shanties (work songs), recreational 'forebitters' and composed melodies which give the landlubber's take on the romance of the sea. Edward Huws Jones explains that 'during the heyday of sail, the busiest sea-routes of all were the North Atlantic crossings, especially between Liverpool and the American cotton ports- it was the heady mixture of African-American and Irish music which gave birth to the mid-century flowering of the sea shanty. Meanwhile English-speaking vessels were sailing to the Cape, India, Australia and many other far-flung destinations, carrying a two-way traffic of song and dance. The tunes in this collection can all be played as unaccompanied fiddle tunes, which is how they would have been played in the days of sail. But as in other books in the Fiddler series, the flexible format allows a wide variety of different combinations and ensembles. Suitable for intermediate and elementary standard performers. / 2 Violons, Guitare Et Piano

Instrumentation :

Violin and Piano


Publisher :

Boosey and Hawkes


Level : See all items with the same classification and the same skill level

Content :
Auteurs Divers
Don't you see the ships a
coming The sailors' dance (H. Purcell)The Liverpool hornpipeThe leaving of LiverpoolWe be three poor mariners (T. Ravenscroft)Spanish ladiesSouth AustraliaSanty AnnaThe new
rigged shipThe sloop John BLitten's hornpipeThe Greenland whale fisheryRow well, ye marinersThe shores of Botany BayHornpipe (A. Sullivan)The tipsy sailorJack TarFarewell, lovely NancyHenry MartinThe three sea captainsPortsmouth (H. Playford)The quayside

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