With companion recordings online-With companion CDs. This outstanding series is an encouragement to beginning singers in preparing a vocal solo. Songs have been carefully chosen for each voice type after consulting many official state contest repertoire lists. All the songs for instance are on the Texas list. The series will be useful to any novice singer not just limited to those preparing an actual contest solo. Each volume contains 10 songs: 5 art songs in English an African-American spiritual 2 songs in Italian a song in German and a song in Spanish. There are new editions and engravings of all songs. Biographical information is included on each composer. Interpretive suggestions are givenfor each song and the preface on Learning a Song is especially instructive. Each companion CD includes beautiful performances of all the songs by a professional singer and excellent accompaniments by pianist Laura Ward. Also on the CD are pronunciation guides in Italian German and Spanish. Soprano Book Contents: Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel · Do Not Go My Love · El tra la la y el punteado · I Attempt from Love's Sickness to Fly · It Was a Lover and His Lass · Lachen und Weinen · Nel cor più non mi sento · Se tu m'ami · Solveig's Song · 'Tis the Last Rose of Summer.

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 include: All for You (Saturday Night) · Autumn (Starting Here Starting Now) · Ballad of Dependency (The Threepenny Opera) · The Boy Friend (The Boy Friend) · Bring on Tomorrow (Fame - The Musical) · Goodbye Little Dream Goodbye (Anything Goes 1988 Revival) · I Speak Six Languages (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) · I'm a Stranger Here Myself (One Touch of Venus) · Jilted (Of Thee I Sing) · Just Imagine (Good News) · A Little Bit in Love (Wonderful Town) · A Little Bit of Good (Chicago) · Long Ago (Half a Sixpense) · Love in a Home (Lil' Abner) · Love Is Sweeping the Country (Of Thee I Sing) · Mira (Carnival) · My Love Is on the Way (The Golden Apple) · My Man's Gone Now (Porgy and Bess) · Once Upon a Dream (Jekyll

But Stars Remaining was written in 1970 for the English soprano Jane Manning. It sets lines from two poems by Cecil Day-Lewis bringing them together to create a scena lasting some seven minutes. It is an aubade or dawn love-song; it begins with outward extravert energy and moves to an inward intimate centre. It closes as the imagery moves out again to the expanse of the sky at first light.

Description G. Schirmer Opera Anthology - Arias For Soprano Carefully chosen arias to anticipate the needs of singers, teachers and coaches for years to come. Songlist Ach, Ich Fühl's (Die Zauberflöte) [Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus] Adieu, Notre Petite Table (Manon) [Massenet, Jules] Ah Je Rise De Me Voir (Faust) [Gounod, Charles] Ah Je Veux Vivre (Romeo Et Juliette) [Gounod, Charles] Batti, Batti, O Bel Masetto (Don Giovanni) [Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus] Bester Jungling (Der Schauspieldirektor) [Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus] Caro Nome (Rigoletto) [Verdi, Giuseppe] Deh Vieni, Non Tardar (Le Nozze Di Figaro) [Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus] Donde Lieta Usci (La Boheme) [Puccini, Giacomo] Dove Sono I Bei Momenti (Le Nozze Di Figaro) [Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus] Elle A Fui, La Tourterelle (Les Contes D'Hoffman) [Offenbach, Jacques] Fair Robin I Love (Tartuffe) [Mechem, Kirke] Je Dis Que Rien Ne M'epouvante (Carmen) [Bizet, Georges] Kommt Ein Schlanker Bursch Gegangen (Der Freischutz) [Weber, Carl Maria Von] Mi Chiamano Mimi (La Boheme) [Puccini, Giacomo] Monica's Waltz (The Medium) [Menotti, Gian Carlo] O Mio Babbino Caro (Gianni Schicchi) [Puccini, Giacomo] O War Ich Schon Mit Dir Vereint (Fidelio) [Beethoven, Ludwig Van] Porgi Amor (Le Nozze Di Figaro) [Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus] Quando M'en Vo Soletta (La Boheme) [Puccini, Giacomo] Saper Vorreste (Un Ballo In Maschera) [Verdi, Giuseppe] Signore Ascolta (Turandot) [Puccini, Giacomo] Stridono Lassu (I Pagliacci) [Leoncavallo, Ruggiero] Sul Fil D'un Soffio Estastio (Falstaff) [Verdi, Giuseppe] The Black Swan (The Medium) [Menotti, Gian Carlo] The Silver Aria (The Ballad Of Baby Doe) [Moore, Douglas] Tu Che Di Gel Sei Cinta (Turandot) [Puccini, Giacomo] Un Bel Di (One Fine Day) (Madama Butterfly) [Puccini, Giacomo] V'adoro, Pupille (Giulio Cesare) [Handel, George Frideric] Vedrai Carino (Don Giovanni) [Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus] Willow Song (The Ballad Of Baby Doe) [Moore, Douglas]

This landmark series collects compelling useful singer-friendly arias from a distinctly American opera tradition. Each volume includes information about every opera and an aria plot note. A majority of the music in the fourvolumes has never before been available outside of the opera vocal scores and some arias in the series have never been in print at all before now. Most arias are appropriate for college-level singers. Composers such as SamuelBarber William Bolcom Douglas Moore Virgil Thomson and Gian Carlo Menotti are well represented. Additionally arias are included from important works such as Regina A Streetcar Named Desire The Ghosts of Versailles TheGreat Gatsby Little Women and many others. Stephen Sondheim graciously agreed to adapt new aria editions of two pieces from Sweeney Todd for the series: ?The Contest? in the Tenor volume and?Epiphany? in the Baritone/Bass edition.A diverse selection of Arias from Operas by American composers for Soprano and Piano. Includes works by Gian Carlo Menotti Samuel Barber Kirke Mecham and Thomas Pastieri.