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In the many years since the Titanic disaster, a great emphasis in has been placed on what music the Titanic’s orchestras did and did not play.  Since the mid-nineties, something around a dozen or so album have been released of “music played on the Titanic’, with various levels of authenticity.  Here, I will keep a comprehensive list of albums, tracks, and historical and cultural references to authenticity regarding their performance onboard the Titanic.

This page will be updated in tandem with my Reviews posts (Music Aboard the Titanic and Titanic Serenade); as I publish more reviews, I’ll update this list:

 

Track #	Name	Historical	Notes
Music Aboard the Titanic
1	Paddy O’Carrol
2	Leaving Queenstown		Composed for album
3	Oh, You Beautiful Doll		This song is mentioned in Geoffrey Marcus’ “The Maiden Voyage” but no one seems to know what the original source was
4	Alexander’s Ragtime Band	-George Brereton -Mrs. Jacques Futrelle -Major Arthur Peuchen
5	Villia (from The Merry Widow)
6	Minuet
7	I Want a Girl (Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad)
8	Maple Leaf Rag
9	Andante Cantabile
10	Song Without Words
11	Nocturne, Op. 9, No. 2
12	Blue Danube		Other versions of this song are featured in A Night to Remember and James Cameron’s Titanic
13	Berliner Luft
14	Merry Widow Waltz
15	Let Me Call You Sweetheart
16	Fateful Hour		Composed for album
17	Nearer, My God, to Thee	Eva Hart recalled running out of church sometime after the disaster because they were singing Nearer, My God, to Thee. Eva Hart was a Methodist, so it stands to reason that she heard the Propior Deo setting.	This is the “Propior Deo” version, aka, the Methodist version. Nearer, My God, to Thee was reported as having been played, but which of three versions is unknown.
Titanic Serenade
1	At Southampton		Arranged for the album, includes brief selections from Gilbert and Sullivan and Rule Britannia
2	Chocolate Soldier Medley		Logan Marshall’s The Sinking of the Titanic (published in 1912)  claims that selections from A Chocolate Solder were played as the ship sank, but no further reference is provided.
3	Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair
4	Alexander’s Ragtime Band	-George Brereton -Mrs. Jacques Futrelle -Major Arthur Peuchen (See Music Aboard the Titanic, track 4)
5	Londonderry Air		Another recording of this song is used in the 1953 film Titanic
6	Spaghetti Rag
7	Beautiful Dreamer
8	To a Wild Rose
9	Danse Hungarienne
10	Salut d’Amour
11	Barcarolle	Lucy Noël Martha, Countess of Rothes
12	Temptation Rag
13	Song d’Automne	Harold Bride recalled a song he referred to as Autumn.  Speculation exists as to whether he meant the hymn Song d’Automne (listed here), or a popular song by a similar name.
14	Funeral at Colne		Composed for album

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Hey all, this is just a catch-up post to keep any interested parties abreast of important updates in my professional life:

• I just finished a show for Scene and Hurd Productions out of Eau Claire, which you can read about here.  As of last week I am officially their Resident Scenic Designer and therefore will be designing at least as far ahead as their next two shows.
• In a week I move to Spring Green to begin working with the American Players Theatre until October.
• In my spare time, I have been working on one of four pet-projects:
  • My second 100 Day Project: A series of origami flowers based one way or another on music.
  • A minifig-scale Clue playing board made entirely of Legos.  As of this post, all nine rooms and the playing space are built, five of the rooms are furnished, the exterior and foundation have not been started.  At present, the project consists of 9,441 pieces, with an estimated 3,000 to go.  Design to be completed by July 15, 2016.  I’ll post about it soon.
  • An in-depth analysis of the many different outcomes of Titanic: Adventure Out of Time, vis-à-vis character interactions.  A screengrab of my present working flowchart can be found below.
  • My magnum opus, a paper project about the Titanic.  I am in the process of writing and designing my own theatrical production based on the tragedy of the R.M.S. Titanic.  I know everyone and their brother who likes the Titanic is working on their own musical or movie or book or whatever, but I’ll get to why this one is special in a later post.

So that’s what I’m about these days.  I’ll be updating soon about any of the above projects. Don’t forget to follow my Instagram for pics relating to any of the above project.

Cheerio!

“Spectrum”

My working flowchart for “Titanic: Adventure Out of Time”

“Let Me Call You Sweetheart”

The furnished model of the Conservatry

“Symphony”