The ABRSM Songbook | Book 4 & CD (Grade 4)

Contents:

• A Cradle Song (Williams)
• A New Year Carol (Britten)
• A Smuggler’s Song (Le Fleming)
• Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind (Arne)
• Clock-a-clay (Bennett)
• Consider Yourself (Bart)
• Die Waise (Schumann)
• Down by the Salley Gardens (text by W.B. Yeats) (Trad.)
• Fy nghalon (Trad.)
• I Feel Pretty (Bernstein)
• Long Ago and Far Away (Kern)
• Long Time Ago (Anon.)
• Love Quickly Is Pall’d (Purcell)
• Med en Primula veris (Grieg)
• One Hand, One Heart (Bernstein)
• Seligkeit (Schubert)
• She’s Like the Swallow (Trad.)
• Shiny (Cope)
• Silent Worship (Handel)
• Since First I Saw Your Face (Ford)
• The Dormouse’s Carol (Poston)
• The Woodcutter’s Song (Vaughan Williams)
• When daisies Pied (Arne)
• A mi házunk eleje (Trad.)
• Black Is the Colour (Trad.)
• Bunclody (Trad.)
• El galán incógnito (Trad.)
• Greenland Whale Fishery (Trad.)
• Mak Inang (Trad.)
• Mengjiang nü (Trad.)
• The Cage (Trad.)
• The Donside Emigrant’s Farewell (Trad.)
• The Wings of a Gull (Trad.)
• Tudora (Trad.)
• Y deryn pur (Trad.)
• O cessate di piagarmi from Il Pompeo (Scarlatti)

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