Art Song in English: High Voice: 50 Songs by 21 American and British Composers

(Boosey & Hawkes Voice). A wonderful, substantial sampling of art song in the English language, featuring composers from both sides of the Atlantic. Includes many first-time transpositions, as the song list is the same for the High Voice and Low Voice editions. Contents: ARGENTO: Dirge * Spring * Spring Is Like a Perhaps Hand * When Faces Called Flowers Float out of the Ground * BEESON: In the Public Gardens * Indiana Homecoming * BERNSTEIN: Civet a Toute Vitesse (Rabbit at Top Speed) * Greeting * I Hate Music * Jupiter has Seven Moons * BRIDGE: Love Went a-riding * BRITTEN: At the Mid Hour of Night * If it's ever spring again * Nocturne * The Salley Gardens * Sephestia's Lullaby * CHANLER: These, My Ophelia * CLARKE: Down by the Salley Gardens * The Seal Man * COPLAND: At the River * Heart, We Will Forget Him * The Little Horses * Poet's Song * Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven? * TREDICI: Acrostic Song * DUKE: Central Park at Dusk * There Will be Stars * FINZI: Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun * It Was a Lover and his Lass * Oh Fair to See * FLOYD: Two Stevenson Songs: Rain * Where Go the Boats? * GURNEY: Sleep * HEAD: Money, O * HUNDLEY: The Astronomers * Sweet Suffolk Owl * Waterbird * IRELAND: Spring Sorrow * QUILTER: How Should I Your True Love Know? * My Life's Delight * Weep You No More * ROREM: Alleluia * Ferry Me Across the Water * Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair * Love * Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening * SOMERVELL: The Lads in Their Hundreds * VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Bright Is the Ring of Words * Linden Lea * WARLOCK: Take, O Take Those Lips Away

Author: Carol Kimball
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes Inc
Published: 01/01/2007
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.42lbs
Size: 11.89h x 9.01w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9781423418313