{"id":6506,"date":"2017-08-23T07:18:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T14:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=6506"},"modified":"2017-08-23T07:18:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T14:18:29","slug":"sailing-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=6506","title":{"rendered":"Sailing away"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When my father was young and wild, cooped up in a small town in Lower Saxony, sweeping and cleaning the lab of a scientist who eventually spotted his talent for math and chemistry, he dreamt of running away and hiring onto a tall ship sailing the world. Or so the story went. I can fully empathize with that sentiment, particularly while sweeping and cleaning the kitchen not being discovered by anyone at all.<\/p>\n

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Not that I would realistically survive a sea journey that requires climbing ropes and eating bread with maggots in it. But a woman can dream. Mostly she dreams at the movies, particularly when they are directed by Peter Weir and sport an all male crew headed by Russel Crow. I am of course talking about\u00a0Masters and Commanders, <\/em>quite the romp\u00a0<\/em>a decade or so ago.<\/p>\n

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That movie had not just mesmerizing visuals but also one of the best musical scores imaginable.<\/p>\n

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The score includes an assortment of baroque and classical music, notably the first of Johann Sebastian Bach<\/a>‘s Suites for Unaccompanied Cello<\/a>, Suite No. 1 in G major<\/a>, BWV<\/a> 1007, played by Yo-Yo Ma; the Strassburg theme in the third movement of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart<\/a>‘s Violin Concerto No. 3<\/a>; the third (Adagio) movement of Corelli<\/a>‘s Christmas Concerto<\/a> (Concerto grosso<\/a> in G minor<\/a>, Op.\u00a06, No.\u00a08); and a recurring rendition of Ralph Vaughan Williams<\/a>‘s Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis<\/a>. The music played on cello before the end is Luigi Boccherini<\/a>‘s String Quintet<\/a> (Quintettino) for 2 violins, viola & 2 cellos in C major<\/a> (“Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid<\/a>“), G.\u00a0324 Op. Quite the soundtrack for pretty boys chasing ships across the seven seas with big cannons!<\/p>\n

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Attached is one of the sea chanties from the 18oo British Navy that they sing in the film – some good scenes at sea there as well; chanties were usually a call and response song that made working in rhythm easier and distracted from the bloodblister- inducing tugging at the ropes. Singing after work was rather the exception.<\/p>\n