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: "Sailing at Dawn", "The Middle Watch", "The Song of the
Sou-Wester", "The Little Admiral", and "Farewell". 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.