12/13/2022 0 Comments Music to the titanic theme songMany of the songs about the Titanic published in the first two years after the sinking recall that the ship’s band played “Nearer, My God, to Thee” on that fateful night. The sheet music doesn’t have lyrics to sing, but it provides a dramatic synopsis of the tragedy with short descriptions such as “tourists entering the ship” and “leaving port.” Its ending includes the descriptions “boilers explode,” “the death toll,” “boat sinking,” and “Carpathia coming to the rescue.” Thomas, is a musical re-telling of the story of the ocean liner. “The Wreck of the Titanic: A Descriptive March,” by John J. In a time before electronic media, playing the piano and singing were a form of early entertainment for families, and they had a range of sheet music to choose from. ![]() These songs provided families that had pianos the opportunity to play and sing everything from marches to ballads. Yes, families could buy sheet music that focused on the Titanic. ![]() Mansfield Mirror (Mansfield, Missouri), 20 March 1913, page 6 Soon after came the publication of Titanic-focused sheet music that could be played on the piano and sung by families at home, like this example. In the case of the sinking of the Titanic, long before Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” was used in James Cameron’s epic movie Titanic, Americans were using the tragic ocean voyage as inspiration in film and song – starting with the first film that documented the tragedy: Saved from the Titanic, which featured actual Titanic survivor and actress, Dorothy Gibson, and premiered just 29 days after the ship’s sinking. Credit: National Maritime Museum Wikimedia Commons. Illustration: the sinking of the Titanic. After all, who wants to sing songs about a sinking that killed more than 1,500 people on 15 April 1912? But in reality, song writers have always used real-life events, including tragedies, as material for their songs. ![]() What songs do you know that tell of the Titanic disaster? Music about a tragedy published right after the disaster may seem a little odd. Gena is a genealogist and author of the book “ From the Family Kitchen.” Introduction: In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega presents another way of understanding the tragedy of the sinking of the “Titanic” sheet music written shortly after the maritime disaster.
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