Malcolm Arnold - Sea Shanties (Movement 1) from sailor songs and sea shanties Watch Video
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Description: There are a lot of jobs to do on a ship, and most of them are boring. Men on board ship-and this was a male preserve at the time we're thinking of, a hundred to two hundred years ago-therefore got in the habit of singing, and the songs they sang are generally known as 'shanties', a word related to 'chant'. Malcolm Arnold liked using old tunes, and you may know the one that skips around this piece: 'What shall we do with the drunken sailor?' It isn't a very serious song, and this isn't a very ser