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
Lully: All your shades (Bois épais)
Purcell: Arise, ye subterranean winds (Tempest)
Arne: Bacchus, God of Mirth and Wine
Rachmaninow: By the Grave (Sur la tombe encore fraiche)
Anonymous: Down Among the Dead Men (c. 1700)
Drinking (Traditional German Trinklied)
Händel: Drop not, young lover
Brahms: Earth and Sky (Feldeinsamkeit)
Wood: Ethiopia Saluting the Colours
Purcell: Hear! Ye Gods of Britain
Mendelssohn: I am a roamer
Brahms: I said, "I will forget thee." (Nicht mehr zu dir zu gehen)
Carissimi: I triumph! I triumph (Vittoria! Vittoria!)
Schumann: The Last Toast (Auf das Trinkglas eines verstorbenen Freundes)
Schubert: The Lay of the Imprisoned Huntsman (Lied des gefangenen Jägers)
Schubert: The Lime Tree (Der Lindenbaum)
Buononcini: Love leads to battle (Pupille nere)
Head: Money, O!
Harty (arr.): My Lagan Love
Schubert: My Last Abode (Aufenthalt)
Purcell: The Owl Is Abroad
Blow: The Self-Banished
R. Strauss: The Solitary One (Der Einsame)
Beethoven: The Song of the Flea
Mozart: Thoughts at Eventide (Abendempfindung)
Hume: Tobacco
Tschaikowsky: To the Forest
Schumann: The Two Grenadiers (Die beiden Grenadiere)