A special collection of songs for High Voice and Piano by the Liverpudlian composer Ian Venables featuring significant settings of a wide variety of texts. The set is introduced by Graham Lloyd who provides a generous and detailed description of the origins and intentions behind each song. With poems by writers as varied as Tennyson Jennifer Andrews Edward Thomas ad Theodore Roethke the settings are also hugely varied in style and mood moving from meditative and gentle to passionate and life-affirming.A rich and unusual source of repertoire for the accomplished performer.

Singing in English-The Boosey Voice Coach is an entirely new concept in vocal training. Not a self-teaching manual and not filled with off-putting diagrams this series is a wholly practical guide to singing - learning about technique and interpretation through the repertoire itself. Each volume is devoted to singing in one particular language. In each volume of the series works from the vocal canon have been selected specifically by Mary King for their technical and musical challenges. Each piece is discussed at length starting with the words ('Text' - including a literal translation as appropriate) moving to general advice about how the song might be approached ('Notes') and thenaddressing the technical difficulties the music presents ('Skills'). Expressed in clear language Mary King's approach is direct practical and not limited to one particular teaching method. Any student will find that these books enrich and complement their vocal studies.Singing in English: Even for native speakers the English language presents singers with particular difficulties. How do you manage diphthongs for example? How do you make consonants clear without spoiling the vocal line? How do you make sense of the story-telling in a strophic folksong? These issues and more are covered in this book which contains songs with texts in the English language from Britain and elsewhere.