This collection for progressing students includes art songs as well as arrangements of folksongs and spirituals. ART SONGS Anonymous: Pastime with good company · Campian: Jack and Joan · Dowland: Come again sweet love · Dowland: What if I never speed · Gibbons: The Silver Swan · Ireland: Spring Sorrow · Lawes: How happy art thou · Morley: It was a lover and his lass · Morley: Now is the month of Maying · Purcell: I attempt from love's sickness · Purcell: Nymphs and Shepherds · Quilter: Weep you no more · Vaughan Williams: The Call · Vaughan Williams: Bright is the ring of words · FOLKSONGS/SPIRITUALS All Through the Night (arr. Nicholl) · The Gospel Train (Walters) · Greensleeves(arr. Stanley) · He's Got the Whole World in His Hands (arr. Boyd) · How Can I Keep from Singing (arr. Ruck) · I gave my love a cherry (arr. Dean) · Jacob's Ladder (arr. Walters) · My Lord What a Mornin' (arr. Burleigh) · Shenandoah (arr. Walters) · Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (arr. Walters) · This Little Light of Mine (arr. Ruck).

The demand for literature in Spanish is a reflection of our changing American culture. Here are twelve songs in two keys that can serve as an introduction to art songs in Spanish for a voice student. International PhoneticAlphabet is included for each song text as are translations for study. Laura Ward has recorded wonderful informed piano accompaniments on the companion CD. Before the accompaniment a excellently instructive pronunciationlesson recorded by a native Spanish speaker (a university Spanish professor) is heard. The songs are by Manuel de Falla Enrique Granados and Fernando Obradors with an additional two Mexican folksong arrangements. A beautifulVelasquez painting is seen on the cover.