What sailors might hear aboard an eighteenth-century warship

What music would eighteenth-century sailors play if they had a boombox aboard?

Their real shipboard music used fiddles, drums, and other portable instruments, often for dancing, so period dance music is the closest answer.

Actual shipboard music provides the answer to the modern hypothetical. Violins or fiddles, drums, and other small portable instruments were practical choices in the confined space at sea. Dance music is the closest analogue to what a boombox might play for the crew. The exchange gives viewers a brief glimpse of recreation and social life beyond the work and combat of an age-of-sail warship.