Composition Year | 1864 |
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Genre Categories | Songs; For voice, piano; For voices with keyboard; |
Work Title | I Never Was Meant for the Sea |
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Alternative. Title | Humorous Song |
Composer | Vane, Bracey |
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. | IBV 1 |
Key | G major |
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. | 1864 |
First Performance. | 1864 |
First Publication. | 1864 |
Librettist | Composer |
Language | English |
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Romantic |
Piece Style | Romantic |
Instrumentation | voice, piano |
Extra Information | A music hall song regards the woes of the river, with the pains of sea sickness being the motto of the number. As a sufferer of very bad motion sickness myself, the song is quite funny! Sung initially by the Great Vance, however it got fame as a humorous drawing room number during the latter part of the Victorian and Edwardian era. This conversion was pretty popular with Georgian popular and early music hall songs. |