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This is the original sheet music for Charles V. Stanford's "The Voyage of Maeldune, Op. 34", a musical composition based upon the eponymous ballad by seminal English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Tennyson's poem "The Voyage of Maeldune" was inspired by an Irish legend from the 8th century AD and was first performed as Stanford's opera at the Leeds Musical Festival in 1889. Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852 - 1924) was an Irish composer, conductor, and teacher of music. He was educated at the University of Cambridge and continued his studies in Berlin and Leipzig. He was a very influential composer, responsible for making Cambridge University Musical Society an internationally-acclaimed organisation. Stanford was also a profuse composer, producing a large corpus of work in many genres; however, he is perhaps best remembered for his Anglican choral works for church performance. His music eventually became overshadowed by that of Edward Elgar and a number of his former pupils in the 20th century. Contents include: "I was the Chief of the Race", "And we came to the Isle in the Ocean", "And we came to the Silent Isle", "And we came to the Isle of Shouting", "And we came to the Isle of Flowers", "And we came to the Isle of Fruits", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in a modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of musical notation.