Sherlock Holmes In Song - Paperback

Sherlock Holmes In Song by Jim Ballinger brings together verse synopses of the Sherlock Holmes stories, written to be performed with original music. This edition is a paperback volume, also available in hardback.

Key details

• Author: Jim Ballinger
• Edited by Mark Alberstat
• Format: paperback
• Extent: 274 pages
• ISBN: 9781787059436
• Also available in hardback

Synopsis

Created for those moments when you arrive at a Sherlockian meeting without having read the story of the day, this collection offers concise, three-minute synopses in verse, set to music. Ballinger began writing and performing these folk songs in 1981 for meetings of the Bootmakers of Toronto, accompanying himself on guitar, and completed the project with the sixtieth song in 2017.

The book includes lyrics and musical notation, edited by Mark Alberstat, and ranges widely in style: from trad 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. Influences cited include Cole Porter, Noel Coward, Tom Lehrer and Gordon Lightfoot, with videos of the songs also posted on the YouTube channel Sherlock Songs.

About the contributors

Jim Ballinger 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 is a Sherlockian/Doylean writer, co-editor of Canadian Holmes, founder of the Spence Munros of Halifax, and a member of the Bootmakers of Toronto, the Baker Street Irregulars and other Sherlockian societies.

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