Mezzo-Soprano Book Only-For aspiring and professional singers who love Broadway Alfred's Singer's Library of Musical Theatre presents an elegant collection of the best-loved musical theatre songs in their original keys authentically transcribed from their original vocal scores. Perfect for study and equally suitable for the most important auditions and performances each volume is dedicated to a specific vocal range and contains dozens of songs from a variety of shows that span decades of theatre history. Multiple volumes are available for each of four vocal ranges: Soprano Mezzo-Soprano/Alto Tenor and Baritone/Bass. Authoritative historical and contextual commentary audition tips and 16-barcut suggestions for each song make it the most useful and relevant song library of its kind. Titles: My Own Best Friend (Chicago) · Back on Base (Closer Than Ever) · That Mister Man of Mine (Dames at Sea) · A Little Brains A Little Talent (Damn Yankees) · Something of My Own (Dessa Rose) · I Know the Truth (Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida) · Holding to the Ground (Falsettos) · Think of Meryl Streep (Fame: The Musical) · A Little Girl from Little Rock (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) · Lazy Afternoon (The Golden Apple) · What Is a Woman? (I Do I Do) · Old Friend (I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road) · Last Midnight (Into the Woods) · Moments in the Woods (Into the Woods) · Somewhere That's Green (Little Shop of Horrors) · West End Avenue (The Magic Show) · Tell Me Why (A Man of No Importance) · Take It on the Chin (Me and My Girl) · Like It Was (Merrily We Roll Along) · The Music Still Plays On (A New Brain) · Mad About the Boy (Oh! Coward) · It's a Fine Life (Oliver!) · How Can I Wait? (Paint Your Wagon) · Zip (Pal Joey) · My Cousin in Milwaukee (Pardon My English) · Notice Me Horton (Seussical the Musical) · Wonderful Wonderful Day (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) · What a Nice Idea (Two Gentlemen of Verona) · If You Hadn't but You Did (Two on the Aisle ) · Over the Rainbow (The Wizard of Oz) · Millwork (Working).

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Composer's notes:The Fool is a time-honoured Orthodox religious figure: a Saint the highest of all who discards everything for Christ's sake. He discards all convention all decency all wealth actual and spiritual and turns himself into a figure of fun - defying all acceptable behaviour - and all religious decency. He stands in the square and lets down his trousers - he stuffs himself with food on Good Friday - he gets drunk - he 'appears'to fornicate wildly. There is a faint possibility (in not the highest of 'Fools') of gaining worldly popularity by such flagrant denial of all moral behaviour. Can such behaviour be too interesting? The true fool however embraces all of this and also (unseen) shrinks before the face of his God. By his behaviour he plucks out all hypocrisy false piety and corruption. He is a figure much needed in our times!!! The way I have tried to tacklethis extraordinary subject is to show him in seven stages from an obscene huge fat traditional clown who is drunk fornicating etc. through a stumbling frail agonized figure to a sallow-faced gaunt business man in a formalsuit staring at an empty glass. Having first revered him then mocked him the 'people' while they get drunk and jabber away at 'Christmas' and at the Feast of Feasts 'Easter' are no longer aware of him. But the audience seeshim - a tiny ragged scrap of mortality lying in a corner and faintly so faintly the voice of the Fool the true Fool for Christ's sake sings above the ribald crowd. 'He has given His life'. The Gogmagogs are the 'people' 'priests' 'singers' etc. and one male singer who can 'create' or 'uncreate' this vast role (singing and acting miming etc.) John Tavener Arranged for SSATBB chorus. Date of composition 2000. Chorus part only.

This anthem sets lines from Psalm 139 1 Thessalonians and 1 John moving from an unsettled tonality at the beginning through anguished false relations and wistful expressivity to find triumphant resolution in a blazing A major at the end. Like all of McDowall's music it is well crafted and singable.

Kantate Zum Michaelisfest. Par TELEMANN GEORG PHILIPP. Thanks to the false attribution to Johann Sebastian Bach [BWV 219] of the cantata for St. Michael’s Day Siehe! es hat überwunden der Löwe TVWV 1:1328 by Georg Philipp Telemann, one of Telemann’s works experienced an unusually early renaissance. In 1884 the cantata was published in the Bach-Gesamtausgabe [Complete Edition] and from then onwards enjoyed some fame as an “apocryphal” Bach cantata. Alfred Dürr was able to identify the work as a composition by Telemann in the 1950s. / Date parution : 2004-10-01/ Répertoire / Solistes SAB, Choeur SATB, ou 2 Hautbois, 3 Trombo

The Missa brevis K.140 (Anh. 235d = No. 5) occupies a special position in that it comes close to a pastoral mass a type not otherwise represented in Mozart?s mass oeuvre. As in no other setting of the Ordinary songlike graceful melodies predominate; only the main part of the Credo and the first section of the Agnus Dei stand out with their serious solemn mood.New important evidence for the work?s authenticity has come to light through the discovery of old parts that were written at a time in which a false attribution of another composer?s work to Mozart would not have been possible: a copy at Kremsmünster Monastery which according to Altman Kellner was writtenin Salzburg ?ca. (soon after) 1770? and a copy from Heilig Kreuz Kloster Augsburg of which thirteen parts contain autograph markings by W. A. Mozart. The master?s hand is unmistakable.Urtext of the New Mozart EditionFull score performance material (BA4736) and vocal score (BA4736-90) available for sale.

Kantate Zum Michaelisfest. Par TELEMANN GEORG PHILIPP. Thanks to the false attribution to Johann Sebastian Bach [BWV 219] of the cantata for St. Michael’s Day Siehe! es hat überwunden der Löwe TVWV 1:1328 by Georg Philipp Telemann, one of Telemann’s works experienced an unusually early renaissance. In 1884 the cantata was published in the Bach-Gesamtausgabe [Complete Edition] and from then onwards enjoyed some fame as an “apocryphal” Bach cantata. Alfred Dürr was able to identify the work as a composition by Telemann in the 1950s. / Date parution : 2004-12-01/ Répertoire / Solistes SAB, Choeur SATB, (2 Hautbois), 3 Trombon

Kantate Zum Michaelisfest. Par TELEMANN GEORG PHILIPP. Thanks to the false attribution to Johann Sebastian Bach [BWV 219] of the cantata for St. Michael’s Day Siehe! es hat überwunden der Löwe TVWV 1:1328 by Georg Philipp Telemann, one of Telemann’s works experienced an unusually early renaissance. In 1884 the cantata was published in the Bach-Gesamtausgabe [Complete Edition] and from then onwards enjoyed some fame as an “apocryphal” Bach cantata. Alfred Dürr was able to identify the work as a composition by Telemann in the 1950s. / Date parution : 2005-01-01/ Répertoire / Solistes SAB, Choeur SATB, ou 2 Hautbois, 3 Trombo

54 Lieder Content : BEFORE AND AFTER SUMMER: Childhood among the Ferns - Before and after Summer - The Self-unseeing - Overlooking the River - Channel Firing - In the Mind's Eye - The Too Short Time - Epeisodia - Amabel - He Abjures Love EARTH AND AIR AND RAIN: Summer Schemes - When I set out for Lyonnesse - Waiting for Both - The Phantom - So I have fared - Rollicum-Rorum - To Lizbie - The Clock of the Years - In a Churchyard - Proud Songsters I SAID TO LOVE: I need not go - At Middle-Field Gate in February - Two Lips - In five-score - Summers - For Life I had never cared greatly - I said to Love LET US GARLANDS BRING: Come away, come away, death - Who is Sylvia? - Fear no more the heat o' the sun - O Mistress Mine - It was a lover and his lass LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST: Songs for Heims and Ver (Song for Moth) - Riddle Song - False Colcolinel OH FAIR TO SEE: I say I'll seek her - Oh fair to see - As I lay in the early sun - Only the wanderer - To Joy - Harvest - Since we loved TILL EARTH OUTWEARS: Let me enjoy the earth - In years defaced - The Market-Girl - I look into my glass - It never looks like summer - At a lunar Eclipse - Life Laughs Onward TO A POET: To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence - On Parent Knees - Intrada - The Birthnight - June on Castle Hill - Ode on the rejection of St. Cecelia

This series was designed to supplement traditional vocal instruction and works perfectly as preparatory literature for The First Book of Solos and The First Book of Solos Part II.Each piece is in Englishand has a limited vocal range as well as a piano accompaniment that is playable by a student pianist. The pieces include art songs folksongs humorous songs and suitable vintage popular songs and are all appropriate for contestsolos. The accompanying CD includes professionally-recorded accompaniments. Soprano Contents: Alice Blue Gown · April Showers · Butterflies (Schulz) · Cradle Song (Brahms) · Evening Prayer from Hansel and Gretel(Humperdinck) · The False Prophet (Scott) · Florian's Song (Godard) · Golden Slumbers (English folksong) · It Was a Lover and His Lass (Austin) · Ladybird (Schumann) · The Lilac Tree (Gartlin) · The Little Sandman (arr. Brahms) ·My Little Heart (Weckerlin) · The Nightingale (Alabieff) · Oh! Dear What Can the Matter Be? (16th Century) · Oh Pretty Birds (Rigel) · The Rosebush (Himmel) · The Sweetest Flower that Blows (Hawley) · Two Marionettes (Cooke) ·The Willow Song (16th Century) · The Willow Tree (arr. Reimann) · The Winter It Is Past (arr. Hopekirk).

Kantate Zum Michaelisfest. Par TELEMANN GEORG PHILIPP. Thanks to the false attribution to Johann Sebastian Bach [BWV 219] of the cantata for St. Michael’s Day Siehe! es hat überwunden der Löwe TVWV 1:1328 by Georg Philipp Telemann, one of Telemann’s works experienced an unusually early renaissance. In 1884 the cantata was published in the Bach-Gesamtausgabe [Complete Edition] and from then onwards enjoyed some fame as an “apocryphal” Bach cantata. Alfred Dürr was able to identify the work as a composition by Telemann in the 1950s. / Date parution : 2004-12-01/ Répertoire / Solistes SAB, Choeur SATB, (2 Hautbois), 3 Trombon

If Ye Love Me was written in 2003 and was first performed by Wells Cathedral Choir. The well known text is perhaps most familiar from Thomas Tallis’s peerless setting. In this version by David Bednall there are definite nods to the past in the use of counterpoint and false relations whilst in no way being an attempt to imitate that older work. The tempo should be flexible and expressive throughout. This piece is from the Choral Signature Series which introduces a wealth of new or recently written choral music to choirs in search of fresh repertoire. The series draws in a rich diversity of living composers andincludes both lighter and more challenging contemporary works offering a thrilling array of varied styles.

With soaring falsetto and smooth harmonies this #1 hit from 1962 by the Four Seasons will make your guys the stars of the show.Available separately: TTBB and ShowTrax CD. Performance Time: Approx. 2:15