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 ﾃつｷ Do Not Go My Love ﾃつｷ El tra la la y el punteado ﾃつｷ I Attempt from Love's Sickness to Fly ﾃつｷ It Was a Lover and His Lass ﾃつｷ Lachen und Weinen ﾃつｷ Nel cor piﾃδｹ non mi sento ﾃつｷ Se tu m'ami ﾃつｷ Solveig's Song ﾃつｷ 'Tis the Last Rose of Summer.