Sherlock Holmes In Song - Hardcover

Sherlock Holmes In Song by Jim Ballinger brings together a distinctive musical response to the Sherlock Holmes canon. This hardback edition includes lyrics and musical notation, edited by Mark Alberstat.

Key details

• Author: Jim Ballinger
• Edited by Mark Alberstat
• Format: hardback
• Also available in paperback
• ISBN: 9781787059429
• Pages: 274

Synopsis

Created for Sherlockian meetings, these songs offer concise, three-minute synopses of the stories in verse, set to original music. Ballinger began writing and performing the project in 1981 for the Bootmakers of Toronto, accompanying himself on guitar, and completed the sixtieth song in 2017.

The collection ranges widely in musical approach, moving from traditional rock and folk rock to Victorian music hall, Gilbert and Sullivan-style patter, sea shanty, rhumba, bouzouki, country and western, military band, rugby song and drinking song. Alongside these stylistic shifts are nods to influences including Cole Porter, Noel Coward, Tom Lehrer and Gordon Lightfoot, with videos of performances available on the YouTube channel Sherlock Songs.

About the contributors

Jim Ballinger, MBt, is a retired radiopharmaceutical scientist and amateur musician who has lived in Canada and Britain, and is a member of the Bootmakers of Toronto, Spence Munros of Halifax, and the Sherlock Holmes Society of London. Mark Alberstat, MBt, is a Sherlockian/Doylean writer and co-editor of Canadian Holmes, the quarterly journal of the Bootmakers of Toronto; he founded the Spence Munros of Halifax and is a member of the Bootmakers of Toronto and the Baker Street Irregulars.

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