Songs of the Sea - Drake's Drum, Outward Bound, Devon O Devon, Homeward Bound, The "Old Superb" - Poems by Henry Newbolt - Set to Music for Solo Voices and Male Chorus - Composed for and Sung by Mr. Plunket Greene - Op.91

This is the complete sheet music for Charles V. Stanford's "Songs of the Fleet, Op. 117," a collection of classical musical compositions for piano set to the words of poems by Henry John Newbolt. Sir Henry John Newbolt (1862 - 1938) was an English novelist, poet, and historian best remembered for his poems "Vitaï Lampada" and "Drake's Drum." Contents include: "Drake's Drum," "Outward Bound," "Devon O Devon," "Homeward Bound," "The 'Old Superb'." Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852 - 1924) was an Irish composer, conductor, and teacher of music. He was educated at the University of Cambridge and continued his studies in Berlin and Leipzig. He was a very influential composer, responsible for making Cambridge University Musical Society an internationally-acclaimed organisation. Stanford was also a profuse composer, producing a large corpus of work in many genres; however, he is perhaps best remembered for his Anglican choral works for church performance. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in a modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of musical notation.