Vintage MIDI Songs and Music From
The Titanic Era
First and Second Class Passengers
The musicians on board Titanic
had to memorize and play by heart a large body of
musical numbers listed in
the White Star Line Music Repertoire book.
This section of the MIDI Music
Sing Along Songbook is dedicated to their memory:
none of them survived
the sinking.
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Songe
D'Automne - Valse
Music by Archibald Joyce
Publication: Francis, Day, and Hunter (1908)
Song #137 in the White Star Line Repertoire
Possibly the last song played on the Titanic
by the band,
and most probably "The Last Waltz"
Custom MIDI - Instrumental Dedicatory
Nearer
My God To Thee
Eyewitnesses claimed the musicians played this
hymn, but which
version was played is in question.
Which would Mr. Wallace Hartley, band leader,
have called for?
His family believed version two, and were so
convinced, they
had it engraved on his tombstone.
3 MIDI Files for 3 Versions
Eternal
Father, Strong To Save
"The Navy Hymn - For Those In Peril On The Sea"
Sung at the afternoon worship service on Titanic,
April 14th, 1912
Lyrics: William Whiting, 1860
Music: “Melita,” John Bacchus Dykes, 1860
MIDI
Somewhere
A Voice Is Calling
Words by Eileen Newton. Music by Arthur F. Tate.
Publication: New York: T.B. Harms & Francis,
Day & Hunter,
62-64 W. 45th St., (1911)
A brand new organ was lost when the Titanic
went down;
this song would have sounded wonderful on it.
MIDI
Mon
Coeur S'Ouvre A Ta Voix
(My Heart At Thy Sweet Voice)
From The Opera Samson and Delilah
By Camille Saint-Saens (1877)
Song #27 in the White Star Repertoire
This haunting song of a tragic, doomed love
somehow seems a fitting number for the Titanic...
though I am sure they didn't think of it as
an omen at the time.
MIDI
In
The Shadows
Music by Herman Finck, Words by E. Ray Goetz
Publication: Hawkes and Son (1911)
Aristocratic dance number with lyrics; perfect
for First Class Passengers
MIDI
The
Glow Worm
From "Lysistrata"
Music by Paul Lincke
Original Lyric by Lilla Cayley Robinson (1907)
"Follow..." to Song #140 in the White Star
Line Music Book
MIDI
Asleep
In The Deep
Words by A.J. Lamb. Music by H.W. Petrie.
Publication: New York:
F.A. Mills, 721 Seventh Ave., 1897
One of those songs you know you've heard before,
but can't remember where;
it is a wonderfully dramatic solo for the baritone
voice. This song foreshadows
the great shipwrecks of the early 20th century,
including the Titanic
MIDI
White
Wings
Words and Music by Banks Winter (1912)
Lilting song of the sea, based on a popular
novel by the same name from the 1800's.
MIDI
Selections
From The Merry Widow
Music by Franz Lehar and Original English Lyrics
by Adrian Ross
(1905-07)
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Several Songs from the Operetta
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The
Band Played Nearer My God To Thee
As
The Ship Went Down
Words by Mark Bram and Music by Harold Jones
Publication: The Joe Morris Music Co. New York,
1912
A haunting song written after the sinking paying
homage to the ship's heroes
MIDI
Other Operatic Fare That The Musicians Would
Have Played
Number 59 in the WSL Repertoire: Verdi's Il
Trovatore
Number 60 in the WSL Repertoire: Selections
from Verdi's Rigoletto
Number 63 in the WSL Repertoire: Selections
from Puccini's La Boheme
Number 65 in the WSL Repertoire: Selections
from Gilbert and Sullivan's Operetta The Pirates of Penzance
I
Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major General
Poor Wandering
One!
Number 71 in the WSL Repertoire: Offenbach's
Les Contes D'Hoffman
Number 84 in the WSL Repertoire: Pizzicato from
Leo Delibes' Sylvia
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