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.

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