"Sea Wrack"

sheet music

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS & SHEET MUSIC
Harty, Hamilton
England, London
1905
paper
14 x 10-1/4 in.

Sheet music, "Sea Wrack", song, words by permission from "Songs of the Glens of Antrim" by Moira O'Neill [pseudonym of Agnes Higginson Skrine], music by Hamilton Harty [1879-1941], No. 2 in D; copyright 1905 by Boosey & Co., London [c. 1918 per S. M. Frank]; dedicated to Clara Speed; 6 pages, cover in various print styles, no illustration; note on second page "The Sea Wrack is a kind of sea-weed common on British shores. People go out in boats to cut and gather it; it is then laid on the rocks to dry, after which it is burnt to "kelp," a substance used for chemical purposes." Anthologized in Sydney Northcote, ed., "Contralto Songs", London: Boosey & Co., 1950.

1997.151.3