Seafaring Fiddler, The - Jones, Edward Huws, ed. - violin + piano/violin/guitar + CD
Seafaring Fiddler, The - Jones, Edward Huws, ed. - violin + piano/violin/guitar + CD
Product code: BH12763Description
"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." Set for ABRSM Examinations 2024 onwards Violin Grade 1 (List B: Leaving of Liverpool, The) & Grade 2 (List C: Jack Tar)
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 Huws Jones' Fiddler series, the flexible format allows a wide variety of different combinations and ensembles with accompanying parts for piano, 2nd violin & guitar, as well as a backing/demo CD.
Don't you see the ships a-coming? - trad. arr. Huws Jones
Farewell, lovely Nancy - trad. arr. Huws Jones
Greenland whale fishery, The - trad. arr. Huws Jones
Henry Martin - trad. arr. Huws Jones
Hornpipe [Ruddigore] - Sullivan
Jack Tar - trad. arr. Huws Jones
Leaving of Liverpool, The - trad. arr. Huws Jones
Litten's hornpipe - trad. c. 1800 arr. Huws Jones
Liverpool hornpipe, The - trad. arr. Huws Jones
New-rigged ship, The - trad. arr. Huws Jones
Portsmouth [English Dancing Master, The] – trad., coll. Playford
Quayside, The - trad. arr. Huws Jones
Row well, ye mariners [English Dancing Master, The] – trad., coll. Playford
Sailors' dance [Dido & Aeneas] - Purcell
Santy Anna - trad. arr. Huws Jones
Shores of Botany Bay, The - trad. arr. Huws Jones
Sloop John B, The - trad. arr. Huws Jones
South Australia - trad. arr. Huws Jones
Spanish ladies - trad. arr. Huws Jones
Three sea captains, The - trad. arr. Huws Jones
Tipsy sailor, The - trad. arr. Huws Jones
We be three poor mariners [Deuteromelia] - Ravenscroft, T
Tag: Violin Grade 2