Synopses & Reviews
More great teaching material at the same level as the first volume. Over 30 songs in each volume with no song duplicated between voice types. A student could easily begin either in The First Book or The First Book Part II, or the books may be used concurrently.
Table of Contents
pt. 1. Across the western ocean / arranged by Celius Dougherty. The bells of Clermont Town / A.M. Goodhart. The blind ploughman / Robert Coningsby Clarke. Blow, blow, thou winter wind / Roger Quilter. Blow high, blow low / Charles Dibdin. Create in me a clean heart / Carl F. Mueller. Encantadora Maria / arranged by Edward Kilenyi. False Phillis : old English melody. The Friar of Orders gray / William Shield. Hèor' ich das Liedchen klingen ; Intermezzo / Robert Schumann. Jagdlied / Felix Mendelssohn. The Jolly Roger / R. Ritchie Robertson. The King of love my Shepherd is / Charles Gounod. La paloma blanca / arranged by Edward Kilenyi. Le secret / Gabriel Faurâe. Leave me, loathsome light / George Frideric Handel. Let us break bread together / arranged by Gordon Myers. Lord, I want to be a Christian / arranged by John Payne. Lungi dal caro bene / Giuseppe Sarti. Next, winter comes slowly / Henry Purcell. O mistress mine / Roger Quilter. On the road to Mandalay / Oley Speaks. The rovin' gambler / John Jacob Niles. The sea / Edward MacDowell. Sea moods / Mildred Lund Tyson. Shenandoah / arranged by Celius Dougherty. The splendour falls / Richard H. Walthew. Tally-ho! / Franco Leoni. There was a mighty monarch / Ludwig van Beethoven. Why so pale and wan / Thomas Arne. Widmung / Robert Franz -- pt. 2. L'amour de moi : 15th century. Blow, blow, thou winter wind / Arne. Blow, ye winds : sea chantey / arranged by Dougherty. Bois epais / Jean-Baptise Lully. Bright is the ring of words / Ralph Vaughan Williams. Build thee more stately mansions / Mark Andrews. Deep river : spiritual / arranged by Harry T. Burleigh. Down Harley Street / Charles Kingsford. Du bist wie eine Blume / Franz Liszt. Du bist wie eine Blume / Robert Schumann. Ein Ton / Peter Cornelius. Eldorado / Walthew. The first concert / Mana-Zucca. Give a man a horse he can ride / Geoffrey O'Hara. God is my shepherd / Antonâin Dvoérâak. The heart worships / Gustav Holst. I wonder as I wander / Niles.