Music Of The Waters - online book

Sailors' Chanties, Songs Of The Sea, Boatmen's, Fishermen's,
Rowing Songs, & Water Legends with lyrics & sheet music

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	ITALIAN FISHERMEN'S AND SAILORS' SONGS.
	ITALIAN HYMN.
	Every child from his cradle upwards has heard of Italy as the land of music. The world is indebted to it for all that makes the beauty of the art, and for much of its science. Overflowing with natural beauty, rich in historical associations, and in relics which set these forth, peopled by those who are brimful of natural aptitude and that quick nervous sensibility which is so important an element of musical genius, who does not look to Italy as the " Land of Harmony," with its fascinating coast-line, its northern lakes, Naples with its beautiful bay, and Venice with its lazy lagoons ? What music in France owes to the intellectual predilec-