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Re: Drunken Sailor – Public Domain Sea Shanty

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vternop wrote: post #47
app4soft wrote: post #44

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> By the way, they are both now available DRM-free. Source?

They are both available from e.g. GOG, which sells DRM-free games. I'm not going to link to e-commerce sites in a thread about public domain music, sorry. Here's an official statement, if you like, regarding Dishonored: https://twitter.com/gogcom/status/1229435857213575173 Mark of the Ninja: https://twitter.com/klei/status/1009866739172007936

Thanks!

Re: Drunken Sailor – Public Domain Sea Shanty

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bwood wrote: post #32

One of my favorite sea shanties: Jack was Every Inch a Sailor [0] I play this on my ukulele while my kids dance and sing along. For an endless supply of sea shanties, look up Newfoundland folk music. Also an honorable mention: Heave Away [1] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLeGXzZki-s [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdhdC0Mbqak

I might be biased, but I really like the one the crew on Statsraad Lehmkuhl sings when the ship sails into it's home port of Bergen [0]. I believe it's based on the old shanty "South Australia" but they've changed the lyrics to be about "the coast of Norway".

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RALnF8RtITs

Re: Drunken Sailor – Public Domain Sea Shanty

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vternop wrote: post #43
sstephant wrote: post #21

I loved the darker 'dishonored' version

Drunken Whaler . Here it is as used in a trailer for the game: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rUtX8pFl6Wc Two great action stealth games came out in 2012 that share many similarities (or perhaps, their Thief legacy): Dishonored and Mark of the Ninja. The latter is by far the best gameplay wise; Dishonored has unsurpassed world-building. Sometimes I idly think of just modding Dishonored's setting and visual design into M…

> Drunken Whaler. Here it is as used in a trailer for the game: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rUtX8pFl6Wc

Just shortened it to fit Twitter 2:20 time limit, pulling out fragments with no lyrics.[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1351125588292067329

Re: Drunken Sailor – Public Domain Sea Shanty

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Post by Eldt »

app4soft wrote: post #41
ryanar wrote: post #25

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Shanty love came from a TikTok viral video: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-delig...

To be clear, firstly it came from YouTube to TikTok, see my comment[0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25814759#25816838

Not sure I understand. It seems to me that while the original song was uploaded to youtube, it was the tiktok video that made it go viral.

Re: Drunken Sailor – Public Domain Sea Shanty

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akavel wrote: post #58
DavidWoof wrote: post #45

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Every time I see that clip I feel obliged to point out the green shirt guy who shows up around 1:50 on the far left singing the harmony. He's essential to the richness of the sound of the chorus. Which always leaves me wondering how common this would have been in the 1800s. Back in the days when listening to music at home meant playing it, was your average group of scalawags always going to have a few people who sang…

I'm taking part in a kind of folk music revival scene in my country and thus interested in those kinds of stuff. The initial disclaimer is, given that this is "non-material cultural heritage", it's hard to be sure about details; however, just for some incomplete (from what I see - I'm surprised they don't even mention Ukrainian or Russian folk music at all) summary of what is known, see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/…

> from what I see - I'm surprised they don't even mention Ukrainian or Russian folk music at all) summary of what is known, see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphony (based on this, polyphony existed for sure at least before year 900)

It is probably Varangians-Ukrainian folk music (ex-Kyiv Rus with a captital in Kyiv during period of 882–1240; actually Kyiv is a capital of Ukraine).[0]

> The Varangians later assimilated into the Slavic population and became part of the first Rus' dynasty, the Rurik Dynasty. Kyivan Rus' was composed of several principalities ruled by the interrelated Rurikid knyazes ("princes"), who often fought each other for possession of Kyiv.[1]

JFTR, Russia (ex-Moskovia) not exists until 1240s.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine#Golden_Age_of_Kyiv

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