I'm listening to this at the same time as I am reading A Night To Remember by Walter Lord. Imagine clambering up a heavily listed deck, being chased by the ocean and this playing in the background...
5:48 This part is so chilling to me. It's almost as if this part of the song signifies that the end is near and that there is nothing left for the people still stuck onboard to do.
Ive read A Night to Remember.....now I'm on the books: 1. Titanic Names by Lee Merideth, 2. The Truth About The Titanic by Archibald Gracie a survivor, 3. The story of the Titanic as told by the survivors Lawrence Beesley, Achibald Gracie, Commander Lightoller and Harold bride, 4. The Loss of the S.S. Titanic by Lawrence Beesley, and The Sinking of the Titanic by 1912 survivor accounts. Yes I'm so into the Titanic be it sad but its very important to not forget them. To all the victims who perished when the Titanic sank - may they be forever remembered with compassion especially to those heroic men who instead of trying to save themselves, stood aside that women and children might have their chance; of each of them let it be written, as it was written of a greater one- " He Died that Others might Live"....To the unsung heroes - Captain Ronstron, his crew and the passengers of the Carpathia for their valiant rescue efforts. And most of all to the city of New York, where citizens banded together to alleviate the suffering of the survivors.
I believe Autumn might have been the last song played. But I like to believe the Welsh hymn "Nearer My God To Thee" might have also been played. It really doesn't matter in 2022, but the sound of "Nearer My God to Thee" always makes me think of Titanic and makes me cry...
This is true. Walter Lord who wrote the book said the LEGEND is the band went down playing "Nearer My God to Thee." There is a problem with this: there are three different melodies to that hymn, so which one did they play? Also the hymn was known to the passengers and they would have panicked, which was not what the band was trying to do. Their job was to calm the passengers. Harold Bride the junior wireless operator was one of the last people off the ship and he was a trained observer and he said the last pieces of music was "Autumn" which was also known as "Songe d'Autumne" or "Dream of Autumn" which was composed by Archibald Joyce whose many waltzes were part of the band's repertoire which they were required to know from memory, since the band moved about and couldn't hold sheet music.
@@Master_BlackthorneEva Hart said it was nearer my God to thee and a year afterwards heard it in church and ran away why would she run from the song playing if she didn't hear it from a traumatic part of her life such as the titanic sinking?
I believe Ava Hart was a young child when this happened and may have confused the time that they played it. I would rather believe the junior wireless operator who was 22 and trained in observation.
People : * mainly use sleeping sun our my heart will go on for their sinking ship * Me : this is a masterpiece, need someone to make sinking video with this
Wallace Hartley was quoted in saying if he was ever on a sinking ship that his last song would be "Nearer My God To Thee " It is eerie to think he might of had a premonition of seeing his future 😱
how, its too dramatic and not really a sad kinda song... Its all fancy and posh and would play in like a big waltz.. This doesnt fit the vibe of a sinking ship at all,
@@swigglyforce5215 this song is in minor key which makes it very melancholic and haunting by definition. It absolutely conveys the mood of a sinking ship.
@@swigglyforce5215 You're wrong. "Autumn" was a popular song and would have soothed the passengers. It was also in the band's songbook which they were required to memorize. "Nearer my God to Thee" was popular at funerals and there were several versions of it so which one did they play?
15th of april, year 1912 around an hour after midnight Ocean liner R.M.S Titanic has met her fate. The boat deck is flooding rapidly. People are screaming in horror, while this beautiful "unsinkable" ship slips beneath the waves. Collapsible boats are being used as fast as possible. Last distress calls were sent. Soon after stern has risen above the surface, and her lights went out around 2:10 am. At 2:13 she split and finally sunk in 2:20. People in the lifeboats could only hear screaming and metal groaning. Painful screams becoming quieter minute after minute until there was complete silence and darkness. It is around 3:30 am in the morning. Small Ocean liner named R.M.S Carpathia Has arrived, to rescue 703 survivors.
I just researched an article about a Connecticut survivor and in a Hartford Courant article that printed an extensive interview with Susan Webber, this was the song they claimed the band was playing when the ship went down. I think Nearer My God is a writers way of dramatizing a story that didn’t need additional dramatization.
Several survivors say it was nearer my God to thee not autumn one even ran away from church after hearing it again a year later so I'm believing nearer my God to thee thank you
Uh yea no, a research showed that the "nearer my god to thee" being the last song has been brought up at the Carpathia, before it even arrived to New York.
Waltz music was very popular in 1912. Just as rock and roll was popular later on. This music was composed by Archibald Joyce who wrote many waltzes and was dubbed "The English Waltz King." However. his style was more like Franz Lehar ("The Merry Widow") than Richard Strass II. The White Star Line Song Book contained several of his waltzes as they were very popular. The Titanic's band had strings and a piano but no brass or woodwind. Their music was different from the way the waltzes were originally written. To give you an idea, here is a TH-cam link to the "Autumn" with full orchestra" th-cam.com/video/tOt9wj7pYeY/w-d-xo.html
Immediately after the sinking whilst on board the Carpathia 15 survivors testified to hearing 'Nearer my God to Thee'; only one person testified to it being 'Autumn'. Wallace Hartley told a friend that if ever he was in a shipwreck he would play 'Nearer my God to Thee' or 'Oh God our help in Ages Past'. The evidence that the Band played 'Nearer my God to Thee' is 15 times stronger than the evidence supporting the playing of 'Autumn'. (From George Behe's book - 'Those Brave Fellows: The Last Hours of the Titanic's Band'.)
The problem with the claims of my god to thee being played on the night she went down is because while passengers aboard the lifeboats heard it. Survivors who were on the ship till it went under the water claimed the song was never played with Wallace claiming the song was autumn.
My, you are a stickler for the romantic aren't you? Many of the women survivors when asked which boat they left in, said "The last boat." Don't believe everything the female survivors said. Many of them were in states of shock and hysteria having lost their husbands or children or both. Wireless operator Harold Bride was one of the last persons off the ship and a trained observer, and he testified the band was playing "Autumn" (Songe d'Autumne") which was part of their repertoire published in the White Star Line's song book. Legends are legends, facts are facts.
@@Master_Blackthorne I have no idea why such credence is given to Harold Bride's belief that the song was Autumn. At this time he was in the water, either under lifeboat Collapsible B or emerging from under it, and was hardly in a position to hear what sort of music was being played by the Orchestra. Also, just because he was a radio operator does not mean that he had any sort of ear for music. I would rather take Wallace Hartley's word for it - spoken to his friend Ellwand Moody - that if ever he was on a sinking ship he would play either 'Nearer my God to Thee' (which was his favourite hymn) or 'God our Help in Ages Past'. Further, 'Nearer my God to Thee' was a special hymn to Hartley as it was introduced to the congregation in his home town of Colne by his father, the Choirmaster at that church.
Both songs was probably played… Noone has so far managed to prove wich one was the very last before Wallace Hartley stopped playing but i suppose Harold Bride had nothing wrong with his hearing being a telegraphist and trained to remain calm even in the gravest circumstances…
One of them, anyway. It's never been clear on the order, but most say that the last song was the Propior Deo version of Nearer My God to Thee, with this playing right before it.
Although a touching piece, Autumn would seem to be out of place at such a grim time...The beautiful Welsh hymn Nearer My God To Thee would seem more appropriate considering the moment...
This song wasnt the last song Titanic's band played. It was accually third or fourth last song before Titanic sunk. Last song they played was Propior deo version of Nearer my God to Thee.
@@CaseyJonasCatt It’s more likely the Propior deo version, because according to Titanic honor and glory, Wallace Hartley was a Methodist himself. I don’t know for sure tho.
@@imagaybanana2004 It's the most likely. He himself said Nearer My God to Thee would be the song of choice he'd play on a shipwreck, possibly inspired by the sinking of the SS Valencia.
Perhaps both were played, Autumn before the first funnel collapsed, then Nearer My God to Thee before the ship broke in two. The trio played till the end did they not.
I wonder how far they got into playing this. The last known person off of the ship who knew the pop culture of his day said this is what they were playing and I'll believe him over a little girl hearing similar chord changes. It makes a lot of sense that this is the very last song. It's a "pop song" of the era, it's a favorite of muscians that knew it at the time, and there's eyewitness testimony from the Marconi operator that this is the tune they played! To their doom! I respect and give props to all of the people that research all of this but given the accounts and that they compete between a little girl and a seasoned Marconi operator - -? I'm gonna go with that dude that was very probably one of the very last people to leave that doomed ship before She sunk beneath the waves.
Before it sank the last words of the Musician the violinist was it’s been a privallege to play FACT 526 more people could have survived if the messages boy got the words right what was men women children get on
This music is so hauntingly sweet and peaceful.
I'm listening to this at the same time as I am reading A Night To Remember by Walter Lord. Imagine clambering up a heavily listed deck, being chased by the ocean and this playing in the background...
Reading it right now!
I just finished Lord's fine book and am entranced by this beautiful song.
Same here!
Yes same here as well. Reading this book and listening to this song at the moment.
Reading right now myself
5:48 This part is so chilling to me. It's almost as if this part of the song signifies that the end is near and that there is nothing left for the people still stuck onboard to do.
Ive read A Night to Remember.....now I'm on the books: 1. Titanic Names by Lee Merideth, 2. The Truth About The Titanic by Archibald Gracie a survivor, 3. The story of the Titanic as told by the survivors Lawrence Beesley, Achibald Gracie, Commander Lightoller and Harold bride, 4. The Loss of the S.S. Titanic by Lawrence Beesley, and The Sinking of the Titanic by 1912 survivor accounts. Yes I'm so into the Titanic be it sad but its very important to not forget them. To all the victims who perished when the Titanic sank - may they be forever remembered with compassion especially to those heroic men who instead of trying to save themselves, stood aside that women and children might have their chance; of each of them let it be written, as it was written of a greater one- " He Died that Others might Live"....To the unsung heroes - Captain Ronstron, his crew and the passengers of the Carpathia for their valiant rescue efforts. And most of all to the city of New York, where citizens banded together to alleviate the suffering of the survivors.
Glad you recorded this song before it got taken out
What a beautiful song. Thank you-Nancy
I believe Autumn might have been the last song played. But I like to believe the Welsh hymn "Nearer My God To Thee" might have also been played. It really doesn't matter in 2022, but the sound of "Nearer My God to Thee" always makes me think of Titanic and makes me cry...
Nearer my god to thee was the last song to be played in completion. Autumn had begun but the band had to abandon mid length
@@NickShelson how do you know that?
I know it because I was there
Me 2 , it's heartbreaking,.but they were trying to calm passengers I truly doubt they choose nearer my God to thee
According to the wireless operator , autumn was the last song ........
According to the novel, "A Night to Remember", the song Autumn was the last song heard playing.
According to the testimony of Harold Bride, the junior wireless officer, Autumn was indeed the last thing the Titanic band played.
This is true. Walter Lord who wrote the book said the LEGEND is the band went down playing "Nearer My God to Thee." There is a problem with this: there are three different melodies to that hymn, so which one did they play? Also the hymn was known to the passengers and they would have panicked, which was not what the band was trying to do. Their job was to calm the passengers. Harold Bride the junior wireless operator was one of the last people off the ship and he was a trained observer and he said the last pieces of music was "Autumn" which was also known as "Songe d'Autumne" or "Dream of Autumn" which was composed by Archibald Joyce whose many waltzes were part of the band's repertoire which they were required to know from memory, since the band moved about and couldn't hold sheet music.
@@Master_BlackthorneEva Hart said it was nearer my God to thee and a year afterwards heard it in church and ran away why would she run from the song playing if she didn't hear it from a traumatic part of her life such as the titanic sinking?
I believe Ava Hart was a young child when this happened and may have confused the time that they played it. I would rather believe the junior wireless operator who was 22 and trained in observation.
People : * mainly use sleeping sun our my heart will go on for their sinking ship *
Me : this is a masterpiece, need someone to make sinking video with this
He says it was the last melody before the sinking according to the last survivors
Wallace Hartley was quoted in saying if he was ever on a sinking ship that his last song would be "Nearer My God To Thee " It is eerie to think he might of had a premonition of seeing his future 😱
Haunting af
I find this much more moving than “Nearer My God to Thee”.
how, its too dramatic and not really a sad kinda song... Its all fancy and posh and would play in like a big waltz.. This doesnt fit the vibe of a sinking ship at all,
@@swigglyforce5215 its a sad waltz. Melancholic. Subdued. Hopeless. Much like the passengers doomed to go down with her.
@@swigglyforce5215 this song is in minor key which makes it very melancholic and haunting by definition. It absolutely conveys the mood of a sinking ship.
Nope
@@swigglyforce5215 You're wrong. "Autumn" was a popular song and would have soothed the passengers. It was also in the band's songbook which they were required to memorize. "Nearer my God to Thee" was popular at funerals and there were several versions of it so which one did they play?
15th of april, year 1912 around an hour after midnight
Ocean liner R.M.S Titanic has met her fate. The boat deck is flooding rapidly. People are screaming in horror, while this beautiful "unsinkable" ship slips beneath the waves. Collapsible boats are being used as fast as possible. Last distress calls were sent. Soon after stern has risen above the surface, and her lights went out around 2:10 am. At 2:13 she split and finally sunk in 2:20. People in the lifeboats could only hear screaming and metal groaning. Painful screams becoming quieter minute after minute until there was complete silence and darkness. It is around 3:30 am in the morning. Small Ocean liner named R.M.S Carpathia Has arrived, to rescue 703 survivors.
So beautiful I love this song
A dignified final song.
Songe D’Automne by Archibald Joyce
waltz into the afterlife
I just researched an article about a Connecticut survivor and in a Hartford Courant article that printed an extensive interview with Susan Webber, this was the song they claimed the band was playing when the ship went down. I think Nearer My God is a writers way of dramatizing a story that didn’t need additional dramatization.
Several survivors say it was nearer my God to thee not autumn one even ran away from church after hearing it again a year later so I'm believing nearer my God to thee thank you
Uh yea no, a research showed that the "nearer my god to thee" being the last song has been brought up at the Carpathia, before it even arrived to New York.
" Hold me up in mighty waters;
Fix mine eyes in things above ..."
This song is really pretty .I'm a music major
Waltz music was very popular in 1912. Just as rock and roll was popular later on. This music was composed by Archibald Joyce who wrote many waltzes and was dubbed "The English Waltz King." However. his style was more like Franz Lehar ("The Merry Widow") than Richard Strass II. The White Star Line Song Book contained several of his waltzes as they were very popular. The Titanic's band had strings and a piano but no brass or woodwind. Their music was different from the way the waltzes were originally written. To give you an idea, here is a TH-cam link to the "Autumn" with full orchestra" th-cam.com/video/tOt9wj7pYeY/w-d-xo.html
La muerte solo es el camino para volver a sentir y despejar cada parte de esta falsa realidad
I believe I have heard this somewhere.
Immediately after the sinking whilst on board the Carpathia 15 survivors testified to hearing 'Nearer my God to Thee'; only one person testified to it being 'Autumn'. Wallace Hartley told a friend that if ever he was in a shipwreck he would play 'Nearer my God to Thee' or 'Oh God our help in Ages Past'. The evidence that the Band played 'Nearer my God to Thee' is 15 times stronger than the evidence supporting the playing of 'Autumn'. (From George Behe's book - 'Those Brave Fellows: The Last Hours of the Titanic's Band'.)
Most of the survivors probably didn’t hear the last song played as they would already have been on lifeboats rowing away
The problem with the claims of my god to thee being played on the night she went down is because while passengers aboard the lifeboats heard it. Survivors who were on the ship till it went under the water claimed the song was never played with Wallace claiming the song was autumn.
My, you are a stickler for the romantic aren't you? Many of the women survivors when asked which boat they left in, said "The last boat." Don't believe everything the female survivors said. Many of them were in states of shock and hysteria having lost their husbands or children or both. Wireless operator Harold Bride was one of the last persons off the ship and a trained observer, and he testified the band was playing "Autumn" (Songe d'Autumne") which was part of their repertoire published in the White Star Line's song book. Legends are legends, facts are facts.
@@Master_Blackthorne I have no idea why such credence is given to Harold Bride's belief that the song was Autumn. At this time he was in the water, either under lifeboat Collapsible B or emerging from under it, and was hardly in a position to hear what sort of music was being played by the Orchestra. Also, just because he was a radio operator does not mean that he had any sort of ear for music. I would rather take Wallace Hartley's word for it - spoken to his friend Ellwand Moody - that if ever he was on a sinking ship he would play either 'Nearer my God to Thee' (which was his favourite hymn) or 'God our Help in Ages Past'. Further, 'Nearer my God to Thee' was a special hymn to Hartley as it was introduced to the congregation in his home town of Colne by his father, the Choirmaster at that church.
Both songs was probably played… Noone has so far managed to prove wich one was the very last before Wallace Hartley stopped playing but i suppose Harold Bride had nothing wrong with his hearing being a telegraphist and trained to remain calm even in the gravest circumstances…
So this was suppose to be the last song they played that tragic night
One of them, anyway. It's never been clear on the order, but most say that the last song was the Propior Deo version of Nearer My God to Thee, with this playing right before it.
They Played This Before They Entered The Icy Waters.
I mean it is so sad 😔
Although a touching piece, Autumn would seem to be out of place at such a grim time...The beautiful Welsh hymn Nearer My God To Thee would seem more appropriate considering the moment...
AKA Songe d’Automne composed by Archibald Joyce. He composed another favorite of mine, Vision of Salome.
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I forgor what I edited this to
I do too
(wait wtf did it change?)
Preston Mallery I think it’s part of za song
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Last song on RMS Titanic...
The last song the Titanic band ever played. So sad.
No matter what was played it is still sad. And what is so much worse is that a lot of it was needless.
A channel with 20000 subscribers but no videos nearer thy god to thee
This song wasnt the last song Titanic's band played. It was accually third or fourth last song before Titanic sunk. Last song they played was Propior deo version of Nearer my God to Thee.
@@CaseyJonasCatt It’s more likely the Propior deo version, because according to Titanic honor and glory, Wallace Hartley was a Methodist himself. I don’t know for sure tho.
@@imagaybanana2004 It's the most likely. He himself said Nearer My God to Thee would be the song of choice he'd play on a shipwreck, possibly inspired by the sinking of the SS Valencia.
Perhaps both were played, Autumn before the first funnel collapsed, then Nearer My God to Thee before the ship broke in two. The trio played till the end did they not.
OH MY GOD ITS LITERALLY CALLED SONGE D'AUTOMNE (autumn dream in french) NOT JUST AUTUMN
That is correct,this one in the Titanic sheet music, but there is also a hymn called just autumn. I think this song sounds creepy!
@@jackiegiebell7222 Nothing creepy about it to my ears.
This is making me depressed
Please, who is performing this version of "Songe d' Automne"?
Bride said it was the HYMN 'Autumn', not the waltz 'Songe d'Automne'.
Bride only said "Autumn" not that it was a hymn.
What a disaster
who wrote it and when?
This is "Songe d'Automne" composed by Archibald Joyce back in 1908 it seems
I wonder how far they got into playing this.
The last known person off of the ship who knew the pop culture of his day said this is what they were playing and I'll believe him over a little girl hearing similar chord changes.
It makes a lot of sense that this is the very last song.
It's a "pop song" of the era, it's a favorite of muscians that knew it at the time, and there's eyewitness testimony from the Marconi operator that this is the tune they played! To their doom!
I respect and give props to all of the people that research all of this but given the accounts and that they compete between a little girl and a seasoned Marconi operator - -? I'm gonna go with that dude that was very probably one of the very last people to leave that doomed ship before She sunk beneath the waves.
Nobody wanted to believe the little girl about the ship breaking up either. Turns out she was quite right.
I'll just accept that we can't really know.
@@terr777not just her but many survivors said it was Nearer My God To Thee
Does anyone have violin sheet music for this?
It is to sad wtf
It’s either nearer my god to thee or this I also came from most amazing top 10 XD
Shit I just went deppresso-mode
Anyone else here in 2024
day before election USA
This is not that Autumn
This is the song in the music which the Titanic musicians had in their repertioire
Before it sank the last words of the Musician the violinist was it’s been a privallege to play FACT 526 more people could have survived if the messages boy got the words right what was men women children get on
Hey add a Titanic photo boom you get nostalgic
gold rapper 09 made a better song🗣🗣🗣🗣🔛🔝
Booo
Hey add a Titanic photo boom you get nostalgic