Art Song in English – 50 Songs by 21 American and British Composers High Voice Boosey & Hawkes Voice Softcover

Art Song in English – 50 Songs by 21 American and British Composers High Voice Boosey & Hawkes Voice Softcover

  • Boosey & Hawkes Voice
  • Boosey & Hawkes
  • Softcover
  • Carol Kimball
  • $32.99 (US)

A wonderful, substantial sampling of art song in the English language, featuring composers from both sides of the Atlantic. Includes many first-time transpositions, as the song list is the same for the High Voice and Low Voice editions.

Contents: ARGENTO: Dirge • Spring • Spring Is Like a Perhaps Hand • When Faces Called Flowers Float out of the Ground • BEESON: In the Public Gardens • Indiana Homecoming • BERNSTEIN: Civet a Toute Vitesse (Rabbit at Top Speed) • Greeting • I Hate Music! • Jupiter has Seven Moons • BRIDGE: Love Went a-riding • BRITTEN: At the Mid Hour of Night • If it's ever spring again • Nocturne • The Salley Gardens • Sephestia's Lullaby • CHANLER: These, My Ophelia • CLARKE: Down by the Salley Gardens • The Seal Man • COPLAND: At the River • Heart, We Will Forget Him • The Little Horses • Poet's Song • Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven? • TREDICI: Acrostic Song • DUKE: Central Park at Dusk • There Will be Stars • FINZI: Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun • It Was a Lover and his Lass • Oh Fair to See • FLOYD: Two Stevenson Songs: Rain • Where Go the Boats? • GURNEY: Sleep • HEAD: Money, O! • HUNDLEY: The Astronomers • Sweet Suffolk Owl • Waterbird • IRELAND: Spring Sorrow • QUILTER: How Should I Your True Love Know? • My Life's Delight • Weep You No More • ROREM: Alleluia • Ferry Me Across the Water • Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair • Love • Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening • SOMERVELL: The Lads in Their Hundreds • VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Bright Is the Ring of Words • Linden Lea • WARLOCK: Take, O Take Those Lips Away

Song List

  • Acrostic Song (Del Tredici)
  • Alleluia (Rorem)
  • The Astronomers (Hundley)
  • At the mid hour of night (Britten)
  • At the River (Copland)
  • Bright is the ring of words (Vaughan Williams)
  • Central Park at Dusk (Duke)
  • Civet a Toute Vitesse (Rabbit at Top Speed) (Bernstein)
  • Dirge (Argento)
  • Down by the salley gardens (Clarke)
  • Fear no more the heat o' the sun (Finzi)
  • Ferry me across the water (Rorem)
  • Greeting (Bernstein)
  • Heart, we will forget him (Copland)
  • How should I your true love know? (Quilter)
  • I hate music! (Bernstein)
  • If it's ever spring again (Britten)
  • In the Public Gardens (Beeson)
  • Indiana Homecoming (Beeson)
  • It was a lover and his lass (Finzi)
  • Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (Foster/Rorem)
  • Jupiter has seven moons (Bernstein)
  • The lads in their hundreds (Somervell)
  • Linden Lea (Vaughan Williams)
  • The Little Horses (Copland)
  • Love (Rorem)
  • Love went a-riding (Bridge)
  • Money, O! (Head)
  • My Life's Delight (Quilter)
  • Nocturne (Britten)
  • Oh fair to see (Finzi)
  • Poet's Song (Copland)
  • Rain (Floyd)
  • The Salley Gardens (Britten)
  • The Seal Man (Clarke)
  • Sephestia's Lullaby (Britten)
  • Sleep (Gurney)
  • Spring (Argento)
  • Spring is like a perhaps hand (Argento)
  • Spring Sorrow (Ireland)
  • Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (Rorem)
  • Sweet Suffolk Owl (Hundley)
  • Take, O take those lips away (Warlock)
  • There will be stars (Duke)
  • These, My Ophelia (Chanler)
  • Waterbird (Hundley)
  • Weep you no more (Quilter)
  • when faces called flowers float out of the ground (Argento)
  • Where Go the Boats? (Floyd)
  • Why do they shut me out of Heaven? (Copland)

Instrumentation

  • Vocal

Product Details

  • #HL 48019047
  • 9781423418313
  • 073999567731
  • M051933853
  • 9.0"
  • 12.0"
  • 192 Pages

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