The ABRSM Songbook | Book 1 & CD (Grade 1)

Contents:

• A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes (Mack / Hoffmann / Livingston)
• Auprès de ma blonde (Trad.)
• Cuckoo (Shaw)
• Die Nachtigall (Trad.)
• Dona, dona (Sholum Secunda)
• Good Morrow to You, Springtime! (Roberton)
• Grandfather Clock (Dunhill)
• Home on the Range (Trad.)
• La Cucaracha (Trad.)
• Noël nouvelet (Trad.)
• Omens of Spring (Anderson)
• Quem pastores laudavere from Johann Hermann Schein’s Cantional (Schein)
• Song of the Boats (Roe)
• The Crocodile (Jenkyns)
• The Miller of Dee (Trad.)
• The Miller of Dee (Trad.)
• The Spinning Wheel (Trad.)
• Walking in the Air (Blake)
• Where Is love? (Bart)
• Aija, ?u?u (Trad.)
• Igama la Bantwana (Trad.)
• Jinkli Nona (Trad.)
• Maple Sweet (Trad.)
• Mick Miles (Trad.)
• Mr Colburn (Trad.)
• Sing Ivy (Trad.)
• Spinn, spinn (Trad.)
• Sus în poarta raiului (Trad.)
• Un jour sur le pont de Tréguier (Trad.)
• When the Spring Comes In (Trad.)
• Xiao Baicai (Trad.)

The five-volume ABRSM Songbook series offers singers and their teachers an unrivalled choice of core repertoire that will provide the bedrock for many years of rewarding vocal study.

The series features:

• over 100 art songs, drawn from Grades 1–5 of ABRSM’s Singing syllabus
• a huge range of repertoire from the Medieval to modern musicals – many in practical new editions
• irresistible new arrangements by Carol Barratt of 18 classic songs
• a rich collection of 60 authentic unaccompanied traditional songs, sourced from around the world
• English singing translations for every non-English-language song – many newly-commissioned
• useful notes on the songs containing background information and performance suggestions
• CDs of piano accompaniments to all of the art songs, as well as recordings of the text to every song, performed by native speakers