The Developing Classical Singer - Sopran. Songs by British and American Composers

Product Details

Subtitle: Songs by British and American Composers
Editor: Richard Walters
Instrumentation: Soprano and Piano
Publisher: Boosey and Hawkes
Product Type: Book with Audio-Online
Year of Publication: 2017
ISMN: 9790051934584
ISBN: 9781495094132
UPC: 888680672072
Difficulty: intermediate to advanced
page number: 88

The selection of songs has been carefully considered to represent a variety of composers from primarily the twentieth century. Songs were chosen that are appropriate challenges to the advancing teenage singer, or for the university student.

Content: 
D. Argento: Dirge
D. Argento: Spring
L. Bernstein: I hate music!
L. Bernstein: Jupiter has seven moons
F. Bridge: Love went a-riding
B. Britten: Come you not from Newcastle?
B. Britten: Early one morning
B. Britten: O Waly, Waly
A. Copland: The Little Horses
A. Copland: Simple Gifts
A. Copland: Why do they shut me out of Heaven?
J. Duke: Central Park at Dusk
G. Finzi: Oh fair to see
R. Hundley: When children are playing alone on the green
J. Ireland: Spring Sorrow
C. Hubert H. Parry: A Spring Song
H. Purcell (realisations by B. Britten): I attempt from love's sickness to fly
H. Purcell (realisations by B. Britten): If music be the food of love (1st version)
R. Quilter: Dream Valley
R. Quilter: Love's Philosophy
R. Quilter: Weep you no more
N. Rorem: Little Elegy
N. Rorem: Love
C. V. Stanford: A Lullaby
R. Vaughan Williams: Bright is the ring of words
R. Vaughan Williams: Linden Lea
R. Vaughan Williams: The sky above the roof