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10 Apr 15 - 01:17 PM (#3701063) Subject: music/arrangement for General Taylor From: GUEST Hello, I am trying to find a vocal arrangement for the Sea Shanty General Taylor. Can anyone recommend where I could find sheet music. Thanks |
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10 Apr 15 - 02:15 PM (#3701071) Subject: RE: music/arrangement for General Taylor From: GUEST,# I have looked for midi, notation, sheet music and found nada. |
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10 Apr 15 - 03:03 PM (#3701075) Subject: RE: music/arrangement for General Taylor From: Steve Gardham You might easily find the dots and the words but 'vocal arrangement' for a shanty??? |
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10 Apr 15 - 03:34 PM (#3701085) Subject: RE: music/arrangement for General Taylor From: MartinRyan Mudcat is definitely temperamental tonight... This is attempt No. 3 to post: I agree completely, Steve. I'm reminded of buying a cassette tape of shanties by a "Sailors' Choir" in Holland, many years ago. The packaging looked great and the accompanying booklet had what I reckoned were pretty authentic sets of words. Trouble was that the singing was dreadful - or dreadfully inappropriate, to be exact. I kept thinking of the likely reaction of a group of choral music enthusiasts if faced with twenty hairy shanty singers launching into the Hallelujah chorus from Handel's Messiah! Crossover is always possible - but it ain't easy! Regards |
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10 Apr 15 - 05:03 PM (#3701103) Subject: RE: music/arrangement for General Taylor From: Lighter Probably you're looking for the harmony arrangement recorded by Steeleye Span in the 1970s, which has inspired many imitators. I doubt you'll find it in sheet music form. Steeleye's tune and lyrics were adapted, I believe, from the version in Stan Hugill's "Shanties from the Seven Seas" (1961). A more complicated version is in Cecil Sharp's "English Folk Chanteys," collected from chanteyman John Short around 1910. A. L. Lloyd included Short's tune in "Folk Song in England" (1967). |
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10 Apr 15 - 05:23 PM (#3701107) Subject: RE: music/arrangement for General Taylor From: Richard Bridge Just sing the tune - or a similar tune - don't forget that shantymen adapted tunes as well as improvised words - and get your other participants to extemporise harmonies. Keep on doing it until it coalesces. Although of course Hugill recorded that only Caribbean crews (he used a different word) sang shanties in harmony. |
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10 Apr 15 - 05:32 PM (#3701108) Subject: RE: music/arrangement for General Taylor From: Steve Gardham Using the well-known tune this is quite a difficult shanty to pitch though it's one of my favourites. You have to pitch in on quite a low note in order for the other singers to not stretch themselves too much on the high notes, however in a howling gale (or more likely nowadays a crowded noisy bar-room) it's hard for the others to hear you starting. Perhaps it would be better to start with the chorus. |
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10 Apr 15 - 07:14 PM (#3701114) Subject: RE: music/arrangement for General Taylor From: GUEST,# 'General Taylor': Steeleye Span On YouTube |
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11 Apr 15 - 09:57 AM (#3701187) Subject: RE: music/arrangement for General Taylor From: GUEST,leeneia Thanks, #. Nice harmonies! |
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11 Apr 15 - 10:35 PM (#3701271) Subject: RE: music/arrangement for General Taylor From: BrooklynJay One of my favorite versions, by the group Clam Chowder: General Taylor Jay |