SKU: HL.49043945

ISBN 9790220133503. 8.25x12.0x0.3 inches. English.

Sea Songs, commissioned jointly by Ars Nova Copenhagen and Glasgow Concert Halls, is a kind of sequel to Martland's Street Songs (originally written for the Kings Singers and Evelyn Glennie). As with the earlier piece, Martland made use of to the library of the English Folk Song and Dance Society at Cecil Sharp House in north London.I wanted specifically to find texts that were not just the usual nautical heave-ho sort of thing, but instead explored the dangers and hardships still being experienced by sailors as recently as the early 19th century. I was also very happy to see in these texts the sense of camaraderie and mutual support that existed between the sailors. (Steve Martland)Dance to your Daddy sets the scene of a sailor's wife at home, dandling her baby son and singing to him about his daddy away fishing, and about the future. Both the tune and the words come from the Northumberland area around Newcastle. This song is very well known in the UK and gave the title to a famous television series When the boat comes in.Fire Down Below is about the effects of fire - a constant danger on board wooden ships. At the end of this song the words take on an extended meaning: Fire in our hearts for the friends that we love.The Dead Horse is about the initial month of work without pay in which all seamen had to take part. They referred to it as the dead horse - hence the expression to flog a dead horse when something is a waste of time. The seamen resented this unpaid time, and the text expresses their frustrations metaphorically by listing what they would do to the horse! The music's frantic gallop alludes to the horse's desperation.Although The Sea Martyrs presents itself as a ballad, this text has a more literary feel, and unlike the other songs it doesn't include a chorus refrain. It concerns the sailors' lack of pay, the consequences of asking for pay (being hanged!), and the poverty of their families at home. The poem portrays the sailors' deaths as an almost religious sacrifice to help future seamen.At the end of the work, the opening of Dance to your Daddy returns as a kind of descant, sung by an angel calling to the hanged men. Paul Hillier, 2012.

SKU: BT.HU-4345-250

A4 (210X297) inches. English-German-Dutch.

Shanties & Sea Songs is songbook containing twelve arrangements of both popular and less well-known songs. They can be sung a cappella by choirs and vocal groups consisting of equal voices. The chord symbols facilitate the accompaniment of the songs by guitar, accordion or piano. Mixed choirs can also perform the arrangements by equally dividing the men and women for each of the parts.

Shanties & Sea Songs is een bundel met 12 arrangementen van bekende en minder bekende liederen. Ze kunnen a capella gezongen worden door koren en zanggroepen met gelijke stemmen. De akkoordsymbolen maken het gemakkelijk deze liederen uit te voeren met begeleiding van gitaar, accordeon of piano. Ook gemengde zanggroepen kunnen de arrangementen uitvoeren door mannen en vrouwen stemmen gelijkelijk te verdelen over de partijen.

Shanties & Sea Songs ist eine Sammlung von 12 Arrangements bekannter und weniger bekannter Lieder. Sie können a cappella von einem Gesangsensemble mit gleichen Stimmen gesungen werden. Dank der Akkordsymbole sind die Lieder auch leicht mit Begleitung von Gitarre, Akkordeon oder Klavier aufzuführen. Auch gemischte Ensembles können die Arrangements singen, indem sie die Stimmen zu gleichen Teilen auf Männer- und Frauen verteilen.