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Published by Boosey & Co, London, 1865
Seller: ! Turtle Creek Books !, Mississauga, ON, Canada
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Good. Vintage sheet music, disbound, interesting cover art. No dated state, extracted from a previously bound collection dated circa 1865. Light edgewear, some finger marks along edges, music however is clean and unobstructed.
Published by Boosey & Co., London, 1880
Seller: Boscolla Books, Falmouth, United Kingdom
Sheet Music
No Binding. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 'The Tar's Farewell' is a sea song composed c.1880 by 'Stephen Adams', the pseudonym of Michael Maybrick (1841 1913), an English composer and singer best known for 'The Holy City', one of the most popular mid-Victorian religious songs. Maybrick was also known for singing his own compositions, often sea songs such as 'Nancy Lee', with which he toured New Zealand in 1884. He was a brother of James Maybrick, a suspect in the Jack the Ripper case (as was Maybrick himself), whose wife Florence in a notorious Victorian case was convicted of his murder in 1889, though later acquitted. 'The Tar's Farewell' was written expressly for Charles Santley (1834 1922), the most eminent English baritone and male concert singer of the Victorian era with a long and versatile career. This original arrangement is in the key of D; another arrangement was also made in the higher key of E flat. Loose-leaved 10-page pamphlet, 7 pages of sheet music, overall fair condition. Cover spotted and discoloured, score slightly foxed, spine tape frayed and partly torn. Name of former owner written in ink in TR corner of cover.