Synopses & Reviews
This revolutionary series of four books, organized by voice type, has made a dramatic impression upon voice teachers and students. The songs have been chosen to anticipate the range, musical development, and text content needs of beginning singers, and the collections are a great value with over thirty songs for only $10.95. Each volume contains several very easy songs, with material progressing to moderate difficulty for the typical beginning singer. A wide variety of music is included, focusing primarily on literature in English, with art songs, folk songs, sacred songs, and an introduction to songs in German, French, Italian, and Spanish.
Synopsis
(Vocal Collection). This is among the most widely used teaching repertoire for singers in the U.S. Over 30 songs in each book, including American and British art songs, folk song arrangements, sacred songs and a sampling of beginning songs in German, Italian, Spanish and French. There is a completely different song selection for each voice type. Contents: All Day on the Prairie (Guion) * All Through the Night (old Welsh air) * At the Ball (Tchaikovsky) * The Black Dress (Niles) * Black is the Color of my True Love's Hair (Niles) * Brother Will, Brother John (Sacco) * By Mendip Side (Coates) * Come Again, Sweet Love (Dowland) * The Daisies (Barber) * Ein Jungling Liebt Ein Madchen (Schumann) * Go, Lovely Rose (Quilter) * He That Keepeth Israel (Schlosser) * I Attempt from Love's Sickness to Fly (Purcell) * I Love and I Must (Purcell) * Jesu, the very Thought of Thee (Wesley) * Loch Lomond (Deis) * The Lord is my Light (Speaks) * Lydia (Faure) * May Song (Beethoven) * Mistress Mine (Walthew) * Der Mond (Mendelssohn) * My Lady Walks in Loveliness (Charles) * My Lord, What a Mornin' (Hall Johnson) * Der Neugierige (Schubert) * Noche Serena (Kilenyi) * Ol' Jim (Edwards) * Orpheus with his Lute (Coates) * Religion is a Fortune (Johnson) * Rio Grande (Dougherty) * La Sena (Kilenyi) * Sento nel Core (A Scarlatti) * Silent Worship (Handel) * Standchen (Schubert) * Wayfaring Stranger (Niles) * What Shall I Do to Show How Much I Love Her? (Purcell)
Table of Contents
All day on the prairie / David W. Guion -- All through the night / old Welsh air -- At the ball / Peter Tchaikovsky -- The black dress ; Black is the color of my true love's hair / John Jacob Niles -- Brother Will, brother John / John Sacco -- By Mendip side / Eric Coates -- Come again, sweet love / John Dowland -- The daisies / Samuel Barber -- Ein Jèungling liebt ein Mèadchen / Robert Schumann -- Go, lovely rose / Roger Quilter -- He that keepeth Israel / Adolphe Schlèosser -- I attempt from love's sickness to fly ; I love and I must / Henry Purcell -- Jesu, the very thought of thee / S.S. Wesley -- Loch Lomond / arr. Carl Deis -- The Lord is my light / Oley Speaks -- Lydia / Gabriel Faurâe.