Chapter I: Front Matter

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MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS

By A. SAFRONI-MIDDLETON

March—

“Our Fleet” War March of the Allied Sailors and Soldiers. Dedicated by special permission of Lady Jellicoe to Admiral Sir John Jellicoe and the British Fleet, 1915. Pianoforte and Military Band.

Entr’acte—

“The Monk’s Dream” (Full Military)

Romanza—

“Song of the Night” (Full Military)

Waltz—

“Firenze” (Military)

Regimental Marches—

“By Order of the King” Also Pianoforte Solo
“Imperial Echoes” Also Pianoforte Solo
“The Colours” Also Pianoforte Solo
“Salute the Standard” Also Pianoforte Solo
“Under the Old Flag” Also Pianoforte Solo
“Our Fleet” Also Pianoforte Solo
“Sierra Leone” Also Pianoforte Solo
“The Relief” Also Pianoforte Solo
“The Night Riders” Also Pianoforte Solo
“Rough Diamonds” Also Pianoforte Solo
“The Stronghold” Also Pianoforte Solo
“Half Seas Over” Also Pianoforte Solo
“House of Hanover” Also Pianoforte Solo
“Light of the Regiment” Also Pianoforte Solo
“The Dashing British” Also Pianoforte Solo
“The Scottish Chief” Also Pianoforte Solo
“The Dandy Fifth” Also Pianoforte Solo
“Cashmere”
“The Long Bright Line”
“Paramatta”
“Carrara”
“Old Castille”
“Bohemia”
“Il Cavaliere”
“The Military Call” Also Pianoforte Solo
“The Boundary Riders” Also Pianoforte Solo

Etc.

Songs—

“Samoan Love Song and Waltz”
“A Soldier’s Dream”
“By the Delawar”
“South Sea Melodies”
“Alabama Way”
Etc., etc.

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Published by BOOSEY & Co., London, Aldershot and New York
_Played by Military Regimental Bands throughout the World_

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Lieutenant J. ORD HUME, L. F., the distinguished Composer,
Bandmaster and Contest Adjudicator of the British Empire, says: “I
consider Safroni-Middleton’s rousing Military Marches the finest of
recent years, and unique productions, coming as they do from the pen
of a sailor.”

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SAILOR AND BEACHCOMBER

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SAILOR AND BEACHCOMBER

CONFESSIONS OF A LIFE AT SEA, IN AUSTRALIA
AND AMID THE ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC

BY
A. SAFRONI-MIDDLETON

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WITH TWENTY-FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS

LONDON
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