The Ruby Recorder Book of Fish 'n' Ships is a lively collection of sea shanties, hornpipes, and sea songs arranged for improving players of around Grades 2 - 4. Starting with the easiest and including lyrics, the book provides plenty of fun tunes - ideal nautical sight-reading practice or even songs to sing in the shower! Great for playing in lessons, entertaining the family, and a terrific way to keep your fingers twiddling and a grin across your face!
Includes:
• A Hundred Years Ago • Aboard the Kangaroo • Alla Hornpipe – G.F. Handel • Bobby Shaftoe • Captain Kidd • Drunken Sailor • Fire Down Below • Fish of the Sea • Fishers’ Hornpipe • Harvest Home Hornpipe • HaulAway Joe • Hog-Eye Man •Holy Ground • Homeward Bound • Hornpipe – H. Purcell • Hullabaloo Balay • I Do Like to be Beside the Seaside • Maid of Amsterdam • My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean • One More Day • Reuben Ranzo • Rolling Home • Sailor’s Hornpipe • Sally Brown • South Australia • Spanish Ladies • Strike the Bell • The Bay of Biscay • The Black BallLine • The Coast of High Barbary • The Golden Vanity • The Mermaid • The Rio Grande • We’re All Bound To Go • When the Boat Comes In •
Also:
- A Glossary of jolly Sailors' Slang
- Tell us more - information about shanties.
More coming from The Ruby Recorder very soon. Look out for our solo, duet and trio music arranged for different playing levels and for mixed instruments: Flute, Clarinet, Bassoon, Oboe, Saxophone, Recorder, Trumpet, Trombone, Tuba, French Horn, Violin, Viola, Cello and Double Bass, Mini-bassoon, Tenoroon, Guitar etc. We have a spectacular variety of duet books, a gargantuan selection of festive books (including Christmas, Valentine’s and Halloween!), instrument-specific theory, including theory puzzles for very young players and even downloadable sheet music and a few play-along and backing tracks on our website. Just visit WildMusicPublications.com and for news of our latest books, why not follow us on X? @wmpublications
Testimonials
Hi there - I'm just emailing you to tell you how much I love your Oboe duet books, especially the vast range of Christmas music! I have all of them!
I'm an oboe and double bass teacher (I know!) based in Dublin, and I am very much a Christmas enthusiast. I'm known among my students for wearing Christmas socks 365 days a year (they've checked!!)
I've taken on some double bass students this year, and I'll be buying your double bass Xmas duets to play with them. Given the brilliance of the oboe books, I'm really looking forward to it. Many thanks and keep up the good work! Eimear
Hello - I love the arrangements. Thanks for providing beginner bassoonists with some great music!! Pauline
Very pleased to have found your Christmas songs for flute. Delighted with the Duets for Flute - 21 Christmas songs and the 50+ Classics for Flute. The selections in both cases were very appealing - so many of the tunes I had hoped for gathered together in one book. Sharon
Hi there! I have been wishing for a long time there was such a thing as instrument specific theory books, and now I've found them. I intend to get your whole selection of flute books- they are excellent. I just wanted to tell you how great I think your books are! xxx Janine
The children are loving the books! Particularly my little violinist who needs a fair amount of encouragement to get practising but he’s so excited about Christmas that I can’t stop him sight reading his way through the carols... !! Clare
May I say how pleased I was to find that you now produce a piano accompaniment to go with the flute/clarinet parts. I already have your flute/clarinet music which is proving to be most useful. Many thanks. Sylvia
I am loving your books. Jessie
Amanda Oosthuizen is a prize-winning writer. She is a highly experienced woodwind teacher and lives with her family in the UK. Jemima Oosthuizen is a freelance bassoonist and graduate of the Royal Academy of Music.
