The ABRSM Songbook | Book 5 & CD (Grade 5)

Contents:

• A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (Sherwin)
• An Sylvia (Schubert)
• Dove sei? (Handel)
• Fear No More the Heat o’ the Sun (Higginson)
• From a Railway Carriage (Rowley)
• Hirschlein ging im Wald spazieren (Cornelius)
• I Attempt from Love’s Sickness to Fly (Purcell)
• If Doughty Deeds (Sullivan)
• It Was a Lover and His Lass (Morley)
• Jeg elsker Dig (Grieg)
• Jsem jako lípa košatá (Dvorák)
• Linden Lea (Vaughan Williams)
• Love Walked In (Gershwin)
• Mariä Wiegenlied (Reger)
• My Ship (Weill)
• Rejoice in the Lord (Nares)
• Rugiadose odorose (Scarlatti)
• Simple Gifts (Trad.)
• Tell me, lovely shepherd (Boyce)
• The Birds’ Lament (Bennett)
• Trade Winds (Keele)
• Una palomita blanca (Rodrigo)
• Vergebliches Ständchen (Brahms)
• Where the bee sucks (Arne)
• Where’er You Walk (Handel)
• Bengawan Solo (Trad.)
• Cantilena del ‘Maggio’ (Trad.)
• Canto de la trilla (Trad.)
• Henry Martyn (Trad.)
• Molihua (Trad.)
• Noches de luna (Trad.)
• Tatties an’ Herrin’ (Trad.)
• The Banks of Newfoundland (Trad.)
• The Blackbird of Avondale (Trad.)
• The Sprig of Thyme (Trad.)
• The Woods of Trugh (Trad.)
• To be a Farmer’s Boy (Trad.)
• Vieni, vieni o mio diletto (Vivaldi)

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