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 • 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 Sut 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)
