For soprano and piano. "Audio access included. Recorded accompaniments online." Chiefly in their original keys, with some transpositions. Preface in English. Code for access to online audio included.
Contents:
Spring ; Dirge / Dominick Argento -- I hate music! ; Jupiter has seven moons / Leonard Bernstein -- Love went a-riding / Frank Bridge -- O waly, waly ; Come you not from Newcastle? ; Early one morning / Benjamin Britten -- Simple gifts ; Why do they shut me out of heaven? ; The little horses / Aaron Copland -- Central Park at dusk / John Duke -- When children are playing alone on the green / Richard Hundley -- Spring sorrow / John Ireland -- A spring song / C. Hubert H. Parry -- I attempt from love's sickness to fly ; If music be the food of love : (1st version) / Henry Purcell ; realizations by Benjamin Britten -- Dream valley ; Love's philosophy ; Weep you no more / Roger Quilter -- Little elegy ; Love / Ned Rorem -- Bright is the ring of words ; Linden Lea ; The sky above the roof / Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Summary:
"The Developing Classical Singer was compiled from the rich choices in the Boosey & Hawkes catalogue, with songs in English by British and American composers. The selection of songs is for the teenage voice, or an early level collegiate singer, or an adult amateur taking voice lessons"--Preface.
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