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An open historical maritime songbook on a chart table with notation sheets, brass tools, a decorated flintlock pistol, lantern light, and a ship visible beyond a rain-streaked porthole with reflected notation in the glass.
Indexed now Songs of the Sea

14 indexed tunes online from Stan Hugill (1977). Newest additions: Rude Boreas, Rolling Down to Old Maui, Jean François de Nantes, Wat Wi Doht.

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An old midnight-blue leather book titled Songs of the Sea by Stan Hugill with gilded embossed lettering.
Publication date
1977
Edition
First American edition
Author
Stan Hugill
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Indexed tunes
14 indexed tunes

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Songs of the Sea

Stan Hugill's landmark anthology of working shanties and maritime songs anchors the archive's initial public browse flow.

An old burgundy cloth book titled Songs of the Seven Seas by Stan Hugill with gilded embossed lettering.
Publication date
1961
Edition
First edition
Author
Stan Hugill
Publisher
Routledge & Kegan Paul
Indexed tunes
No tune records yet

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Songs of the Seven Seas

Stan Hugill's great compendium of shanties and sea songs is prepared here as the next major source-book browse path.