This unique compilation is a wonderful, substantial sampling of art song in the English language, with composers from both sides of the Atlantic. The publication includes many first-time transpositions, as the song list is the same for the High Voice and Medium/Low Voice editions.
Contents
Argento: Dirge
Argento: Spring
Argento: Spring is like a perhaps hand
Argento: When faces called flowers float out of the ground
Beeson: In the Public Gardens
Beeson: Indiana Homecoming
Bernstein: Civet à Toute Vitesse (Rabbit at Top Speed)
Bernstein: Greeting
Bernstein: I hate music!
Bernstein: Jupiter has seven moons
Bridge: Love went a-riding
Britten: At the mid hour of night
Britten: If it's ever spring again
Britten: Nocturne
Britten: The Sally Gardens
Britten: Sephestia's Lullaby
Chanler: These, My Ophelia
Clarke: Down by the sally gardens
Clarke: The Seal Man
Copland: At the River
Copland: Heart, we will forget him
Copland: The Little Horses
Copland: Poet's Song
Copland: Why do they shut me out of Heaven?
Del Tredici: Acrostic Song
Duke: Central Park at Dusk
Duke: There will be stars
Finzi: Fear no more the heat o' the sun
Finzi: It was a lover and his lass
Finzi: Oh fair to see
Floyd: Two Stevenson Songs (Rain; Where Got the Boats?)