Art Songs for School and Studio - First Year

Description

This is the premier collection designed specifically for the developing singer. Year after year these volumes contain numerous pieces that are on state lists all over the country. in addition, these books can be used in beginning college voice classes. The fundamentals of breathing, tone and pronunciation are well presented here. All of the songs are in English with foreign texts listed as well. This collection was first published in 1928, but like all great music, this collection will not go out of style.

Includes CD with Piano accompaniment, performed by Rae Moses.

Contents

• Cradle Song (Johannes Brahms)
• Dedication (Robert Franz)
• for Music (Robert Franz)
• Florian's Song (Benjamin Godard)
• Hedge-roses (Franz Schubert)
• The Little Road to Kerry (Charles Wakefield Cadman)
• Long, long ago (Thomas Haynes Bayly)
• The Lotus Flower (Robert Schumann)
• My Love Rode By (Mary Evelene Calbreath)
• My Love's an Arbutus (Irish Air)
• O no, John! (English Folksong)
• Out of my Soul's great sadness (Robert Franz)
• Passing by (Edward Purcell)
• Pretty Polly Oliver (Old English Air)
• The Road to Home (Lily Strickland)
• The Rose (Joseph W. Clokey)
• The Rose complained (Robert Franz)
• Slumber Song (Alexander Gretchaninoff)
• Still as the Night (Carl Bohm)
• Such a Lil' Fellow (William Dichmont)
• Thou'rt Lovely as a Flower (Robert Schumann)
• Under the Rose (William Arms Fisher)
• When Love is Kind (Old English Air)
• Who is Sylvia? (Franz Schubert)
• The Wind Speaks (G.A. Grant-Schaefer)