Tune Req: Sea Fever (Masefield/Andrews)

Subject: RE: BS: Search Challenge - Sea Fever
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 31 Jan 01 - 12:35 AM

You may be thinking of the lovely setting Ed Trickett recorded on his first Folk-Legacy recording, The Telling Takes Me Home. I'll have to go check on the name of the fellow out in Colorado who set it to the fine modal tune Ed sings. Okay, got it! His name is Andy Taylor. Harry Tuft joins Ed on the song on that particular recording.

Sandy

Subject: RE: BS: Search Challenge - Sea Fever
From: Burke
Date: 30 Jan 01 - 10:23 PM

No midi's but too many options on composers. I found these in OCLC's library database (you're library needs a subscription to search) I'd recommend you ask for interlibrary loan, but most of these had only 1 or 2 libraries with holdings reported. Read author as composer, I checked the records for Masefield as author of the word.s

Sea fever / Author: Rogers, James H. 1857-1940. Publication: New York : G. Schirmer, 1914

Sea fever : concert song for medium voice / Author: Bullock, Flora. Publication: York, Neb. : J.A. Parks, 1930

Sea fever. [Four-part chorus for] men's voices Author: Beach, H. H. A., Mrs., 1867-1944., Publication: Boston, A. P. Schmidt Co. 1931

Sea fever. Author: Enos, Joseph T. Publication: New York, Boosey & Hawkes 1956

Sea fever : song for low voice and piano / Author: Andrews, Mark, 1875-1939., Publication: New York : Schirmer, 1948 1920

Sea fever / Author: Loud, John Adams. Publication: New York : C. Fischer, 1924

Subject: Search Challenge - Sea Fever
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 30 Jan 01 - 10:00 PM

OK hotshots, and you know who you are...(the search engine thread identifies some of you):

I've searched in vain for several months for my version of Sea Fever. Only the poem is in the DT. I've searched using the search engine Google with the words: Sea Fever, sheetmusic, choral and various combinations of those words. I've listened to CD snippets at CDnow. Here's what I have so far:

1) The poem Sea Fever by John Masefield has been set to music using several different tunes/versions. The poem is in the DT if you don't know it.

2)My version is not the one by Ireland, Porterfield, Taylor or Hogg. I can't find a gif or sound sample of the one by Albert di Vito.

I would really like to find out who wrote my version, so I can order the sheet music and get Dave (the ancient mariner) to sing it for us. Since I've already purchased the Ireland version sight unseen and discovered it's not the right one, I'd prefer to see or hear another version before I order it. It anyone can locate a gif or sound sample, I'd be very appreciative...might even convey the Search Champ Award or something. I have a short midi of my version if anyone wants to PM me in order to hear it.

Anyone up for the challenge?