Description
Book SynopsisThe five-volume ABRSM Songbook series offers singers and their teachers an unrivalled choice of core repertoire that will provide the bedrock for many years of rewarding vocal study. The series features: Over 100 art songs, drawn from Grades 1-5 of ABRSM's Singing syllabus; A massive range of repertoire from the Medieval to modern musicals - many in practical new editions; Irresistible new arrangements by Carol Barratt of 18 classic songs; A rich collection of 60 authentic unaccompanied traditional songs, sourced from around the world; English singing translations for every non-English-language song - many newly-commissionedl; Useful notes on the songs containing background information and performance suggestions; CDs of piano accompaniments to all the art songs, performed by Simon Lepper, as well as recordings of the text to every song, performed by native speakers.
Trade ReviewThis series is a rich source of songs for teachers and students ... the CDs add to overall usefulness of the volumes, especially with native speakers of the various languages of the international traditional songs. * Journal of Singing *
Best Classical Publication 2009 * MIA Award *
Table of ContentsA mi hazunk eleje [Trad.] ; A Cradle Song [Vaughan Williams] ; Black is the colour [Trad.] ; Bunclody [Trad.] ; A New Year Carol [Benjamin Britten] ; El galan incognito [Trad.] ; Greenland Whale Fishery [Trad.] ; A Smuggler's Song [Christopher Le Fleming] ; Mak Inang [Trad.] ; Mengjiang nu [Trad.] ; Blow, blow, thou winter wind [Thomas Arne] ; The Cage [Trad.] ; The Donside Emigrant's Farewell [Trad.] ; Clock-a-clay [Richard Rodney Bennett] ; The Wings of a Gull [Trad.] ; Tudora [Trad.] ; Consider yourself [Lionel Bart] ; Y deryn pur [Trad.] ; Die Waise [Robert Schumann] ; Down by the salley gardens (text by W.B. Yeats, set to the Air: The Maids of Mourne Shore) [Anon.] ; Fy nghalon [Trad.] ; I feel pretty [Leonard Bernstein] ; Long ago and far away [Jerome Kern] ; Long Time Ago [Anon.] ; Love quickly is pall'd [H. Purcell] ; Med en Primula veris [Edvard Grieg] ; O cessate di piagarmi from Il Pompeo [A. Scarlatti] ; One Hand, One Heart [Leonard Bernstein] ; Seligkeit [Franz Schubert] ; She's like the swallow [Trad.] ; Shiny [Cecil Cope] ; Silent Worship [Geor
