Contents:
- Ah! How Pleasant ’Tis to Love (Purcell)
- Dalmatian Cradle Song (Anon.)
- Die Bekehrte (Brüll)
- Ferry Me across the Water (Finzi)
- God Be in My Head (Davies)
- I’m Learning to Read (Roe)
- In the Garden Flowers Are Growing (Trad.)
- Komm, liebe Zither, komm (Mozart)
- Llwyn Onn (Trad.)
- Minnelied (Schubert)
- My House (Bernstein)
- ’Orrible Little Blue-Eyes (Roe)
- Sicilian River Song (Anon.)
- Sweet and Low (Joseph)
- The Banks of Allan Water (Trad.)
- The Owls (Jenkyns)
- The Path to the Moon (Thiman)
- The Sunflower (Trad.)
- Wiegenlied (Taubert)
- Windy Nights (Stanford)
- Aa Ola, Ola, min eigen onge! (Trad.)
- A la nanita nana (Trad.)
- All Things Are Quite Silent (Trad.)
- Coasts of Barbary (Trad.)
- Cuckoo (Trad.)
- Fengyang huagu 1 and 2 (Trad.)
- Green Besoms (Trad.)
- Kalevalainen runosävelmä (Trad.)
- Román Castillo (Trad.)
- Seventeen Come Sunday (Trad.)
- Stole mi se o?eni (Trad.)
- Sweet Nightingale (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