Art Song in English - 50 Songs by 21 American and British Composers

Art Song in English - 50 Songs by 21 American and British Composers

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.

Songs set by the ABRSM:

• Ireland - Spring Sorrow (in Ab (eb'-f") AB 5)
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• Vaughan Williams - Linden Lea (in A (e'-f#") AB 5)
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• Clarke - Down By the Salley Gardens (in G minor (f'-g") AB 6)
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• arr Copland - At The River (in F (f'-f") AB 6)
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• arr Copland - The Little Horses ((d'-g") AB 6)
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• Quilter - Fair House of Joy Op12/7 (in Db (f'-ab") AB 6)
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• Quilter - How Should I Your True Love Know? Op30/3 (in Bb minor (f'-f") AB 6)
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• Britten - Sephestia's Lullaby (from A Charm of Lullabies Op41) ((c'-g") AB 8)
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• Head - Money O! (in A minor (a/c'-e") AB 8)

Instrumentation: High Voice And Piano
Arranger: Kimball, Carol
Binding: Paperback/Soft Cover
Language: English
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes, New York
ISMN: M-051-93385-3
ISBN: 979-0-051-93385-3

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 its ever spring again
• Britten: Nocturne
• Britten: The Sally Gardens
• Britten: Sephestias 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: Poets 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?)
• Furney: Sleep
• Head: Money, O!
• Hundley: The Astronomers
• Hundley: Sweet Suffolk Owl
• Hundley: Waterbird
• Ireland: Spring Sorrow
• Quilter: How should I your true love know?
• Quilter: My Lifes Delight
• Quilter: Weep you no more
• Rorem: Alleluia
• Rorem: Ferry me across the water
• Rorem: Jeanie with the LIght Brown Hair
• Rorem: Love
• Rorem: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
• Somervell: The lads in their hundreds
• Vaughan Williams: Bright is the ring of words
• Vaughan Williams: Linden Lea
• Warlock: Take, O take those lips away