Sea Songs

Composer: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, Ralph
  • Sea Songs is a compilation of three traditional naval tunes organized into a short, single-movement quick march. The three tunes featured are:
    1. Princess Royal
    2. Admiral Benbow
    3. Portsmouth
  • Vaughan Williams originally wrote the piece for military band in 1923 as a movement of his English Folk Song Suite but quickly separated it as an independent work.. The composer later transcribed Sea Songs for orchestra in 1942.1

Sources

  1. Noël Goodwin, Essay in accompanying booklet, Seascapes, Various Sea Music performed by the Bournemouth Sinfonietta conducted by George Hurst, CHAN 6538, 2005, compact disc.

Cut IDs

18517 42114