Benjamin Britten – Collected Songs High Voice (63 Songs) Boosey & Hawkes Voice Softcover

Benjamin Britten – Collected Songs High Voice (63 Songs) Boosey & Hawkes Voice Softcover

63 songs, with extensive historical introductory notes. Includes all art songs originally composed for voice and piano published by Boosey & Hawkes. The content is the same for the High Voice and Medium/Low Voice volumes, with newly published transpositions as necessary.

Contents: The Birds • A Charm of Lullabies (5 songs) • Evening, Morning, Night • Fish in the Unruffled Lakes (6 songs) • The Holy Sonnets of John Donne (8 songs) • On This Island (5 songs) • Sechs Hölderlin Fragmente (6 songs) • Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo) • Songs from the Chinese (6 songs, transcribed for voice and piano) • Three Songs from The Heart of the Matter (with horn) • Winter Words (8 songs plus 2 songs cut from the cycle) • Two Ballads (duets).

Song List

  • As Its Is, Plenty
  • At Day-Close In November
  • At The Railway Station, Upway
  • At The Round Earth's Imagined Corners
  • The Autumn Wind
  • Batter My Heart
  • Before Life And After
  • The Big Chariot
  • The Birds
  • A Charm
  • The Children And Sir Nameless
  • The Choirmaster's Burial
  • A Cradle Song
  • Dance Song
  • Death, Be Not Proud
  • Depression
  • Die Heimat
  • Die Jugend
  • Die Linien des Lebens
  • Epilogue
  • Evening
  • Fish In The Unruffled Lakes
  • Halfte des Lebens
  • The Herd-Boy
  • The Highland Balou
  • If It's Ever Spring Again
  • Let The Florid Music Praise!
  • The Little Old Table
  • Menschenbeifall
  • Midnight At The Great Western
  • Morning
  • Mother Comfort
  • Night
  • Night Covers Up The Rigid Land
  • Nocturne
  • Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast
  • The Nurse's Song
  • O Might Those Sighes And Teares
  • Oh My Blacke Soule!
  • Oh, To Vex Me
  • The Old Lute
  • Prologue
  • Proud Songsters
  • Seascape
  • Sephestia's Lullaby
  • Since She Whom I Loved
  • Sokrates und Alcibiades
  • Sonetto LV
  • Sonetto XVI
  • Sonetto XXIV
  • Sonetto XXX
  • Sonetto XXXI
  • Sonetto XXXII
  • Sonetto XXXVIII
  • Song
  • The Sun Shines Down
  • Thou Hast Made Me
  • To Lie Flat On The Back
  • Underneath The Abject Willow (solo version)
  • Underneath The Abject Willow
  • Wagtail And Baby
  • What If This Present
  • What's In Your Mind?

Instrumentation

  • Vocal

Product Details

  • #HL 48019418
  • 9781423429753
  • 884088135874
  • M051933976
  • 9.0"
  • 12.0"
  • 320 Pages

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