These collections of 30 songs each, released over 50 years ago, have been a mainstay of classical vocal study. There is a different song list for each voice type. Now accompaniment CDs are available that match each book. Special CD-ROM features are added to the audio CD which allow the tempo on the accompaniments to be adjusted without changing the pitch, or also, allow transposition.
Contents
Mozart: Adieu (Addio)
Caldara: As a sunbeam at morn (Come raggio di cole)
Gluck: Author of all my joys (O del mio dolce ardor)
Mendelssohn: Cradle Song (Bei der Wiege)
Handel: Dearest Consort (Cara Sposa)
Schubert: Death and the Maiden (Der Tod und das Mädchen)
A. Scarlatti: Dewy Violets (Le Violette)
Hatton: The Enchantress
Haydn: Hark! what I tell to thee
Handel: How changed the vision
Rachmaninoff: How few the joys
D. Scarlatti: Like any foolish moth I fly (Qual farfalletta Amante)
Schubert: Litany (Litanei)
Brahms: Love Triumphant (Von ewiger Liebe)
Liszt: Mignon's Song (Mignons Lied)
Schumann: My soul is dark (Mein Herz ist schwer)
Tchaikowsky: Nay though my heart should break (Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt)
Brahms: A Night in May (Die Maynacht)
Britten: O can ye sew cushions
Campian: Oft have I sighed
Howells: O, my deir hert (Cradle Song)
Beethoven: The Praise of God (Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur)
Brahms: Sapphic Ode (Sapphische Ode)
Harty: Sea Wrack
Gounod: Serenade (Quand tu chantes)
Schubert: To Music (An die Musik)
Handel: Verdant Meadow (Verdi Prati)
Elgar: Where Corals Lie (from "Sea Pictures")
Sullivan: The Willow Song
Mozart: With a swanlike beauty gliding (Quando miro quel bel ciglio).