A Beginner's Guide Featuring Step-By-Step Lessons with Audio Video and Popular Songs!-The First 15 Lessons series provides a step-by-step lesson plan for the absolute beginner complete with audio tracks video lessons and real songs! Designed for self-teaching or for use with an instructor you'll build a solid foundation as you work through each lesson learning the basics of singing and music reading while practicing the many exercises concepts and song excerpts within. Each book in the series features must-know instruction so you can start performing right away with a free online metronome! The voice book features lessons on: full-body singing breathing finding your voice vocal warmups the vocal break caring for your voice diction musicliteracy building skills working on a song dealing with nerves and more. Includes vocal lines from 12 songs: At Last ? Cups (When I'm Gone) ? Danny Boy ? Georgia on My Mind ? Give My Regards to Broadway ? Hallelujah ? Hard Times Come Again No More ? Homeward Bound ? I Ain't Got Nobody (And Nobody Cares for Me) ? Scarborough Fair ? The Skye Boat Song ? You Raise Me Up.

Hans Abrahamsen's Flowersongs (1973) for three Flutes. Score. 'I wrote Flowersongs for three Flutes in the spring of 1973 when I was 20 years old. Looking back now 40 years begins to feel like a really long time and sometimes I think that it is as if someone in 1973 is talking about a piece from 1933! But in spite of this long time this is still a very important piece for me. In Flowersongs along with works like '10 Preludes' for String Quartet and 'Stratifications' for Orchestra I feel that I was on my way to finding my own voice in the middle of the music of the great Central Europeanmodernist tradition from the 50s and the reaction from the 60s of the new simplicity minimalism and the possibility of poly-stilisme. The English title Flowersongs links to the flower power movement and the hippie culture of the 60s and the early 70s and the work is trying to find the power inherent in this imaginary world. Many of my later works have titles in German for example 'Winternacht' (1976/78) 'Nacht und Trumpeten' (1981) and much later 'Schnee' (2006-08). If we think of Flowersongs in German it must be Blumenlieder and to me it now sounds suddenly very different more romantic and into the world of Schumann. Perhaps it is also a way in which to hear the piece? Another thing is that the correct English title is Flower Songs (as two words) and not as one word like in German or Danish. This is perhaps the German connection as I incorrectly wrote the title as one word; but perhaps it is also a kind of naivety which is also part of the work. I cannot help but carry with me to this day the ideas from my early works. For example there are clear links in this work from the 8th Prelude from '10 Preludes' and to Canon 2a from 'Schnee' from 2008. This work is written for the wonderful ensemble recherche and it was meeting them that made me consider making a version of

Parts for Hans Abrahamsen's Flowersongs (2012 version) for Flute Oboe and Clarinet. 'I wrote Flowersongs for three Flutes in the spring of 1973 when I was 20 years old. Looking back now 40 years begins to feel like a really long time and sometimes I think that it is as if someone in 1973 is talking about a piece from 1933! But in spite of this long time this is still a very important piece for me. In Flowersongs along with works like '10 Preludes' for String Quartet and 'Stratifications' for Orchestra I feel that I was on my way to finding my own voice in the middle of the music of the great CentralEuropean modernist tradition from the 50s and the reaction from the 60s of the new simplicity minimalism and the possibility of poly-stilisme. The English title Flowersongs links to the flower power movement and the hippie culture of the 60s and the early 70s and the work is trying to find the power inherent in this imaginary world. Many of my later works have titles in German for example 'Winternacht' (1976/78) 'Nacht und Trumpeten' (1981) and much later 'Schnee' (2006-08). If we think of Flowersongs in German it must be Blumenlieder and to me it now sounds suddenly very different more romantic and into the world of Schumann. Perhaps it is also a way in which to hear the piece? Another thing is that the correct English title is Flower Songs (as two words) and not as one word like in German or Danish. This is perhaps the German connection as I incorrectly wrote the title as one word; but perhaps it is also a kind of naivety which is also part of the work. I cannot help but carry with me to this day the ideas from my early works. For example there are clear links in this work from the 8th Prelude from '10 Preludes' and to Canon 2a from 'Schnee' from 2008. This work is written for the wonderful ensemble recherche and it was meeting them that made me consider making a version of

An anthology of new songs for voice and Piano on poems by Ursula Vaughan Williams.Nicola LeFanu Finding for Baritone and PianoJeremy Dale Roberts Spoken to a Bronze Head for Mezzo Soprano/Soprano andPianoAlastair Borthwick Time being for Baritone/Tenor and PianoLeonidas Sakallarides Place for Soprano and PianoElegy for Soprano and PianoAnthony Payne The Headland forBaritone/Mezzo-Soprano/Countertenor and PianoThomas Simaku Need for Speech for Soprano and PianoEvis Sammoutis This girl is dead for Soprano and PianoRichard Tsang There must be time for grief for Soprano and Piano

Jonathan Dove's Songs And Arias for Soprano. I recommend these approachable vibrant compositions to every singer.They solve the problem of finding a good singable contemporary piece in English which so many competitions and scholarships demand. - Anthony Legge Director of Opera Royal Academy of Music London

Wonderland is the delightful soaring musical that takes a new kind of Alice into a world of kaleidoscopic fantasy and romantic adventure. As a mom whose life is spinning out of control Alice's yearning for happier times leads her on a quest far below the streets of New York City to the other side of the looking glass. There she meets a marvelous cast of familiar but phenomenally re-imagined characters who help her navigate this impossibly peculiar universe and change her life forever.This folio features 19 Piano/Vocal selections from the Frank Wildhorn score including: Advice from a Caterpillar • Down the Rabbit Hole • FindingWonderland • Go with the Flow • Home • I Am My Own Invention • The Mad Hatter • Off with Their Heads • Through the Looking Glass • Welcome to Wonderland and more. Includes a special section of full-color production photos.

Seventeen beautiful songs transcribed for guitar and ukulele exactly as played by IZ including his breathtaking version of Over the Rainbow as heard on the soundtracks to Finding Forester, 30 First Dates, and ER. There are also four pages of colour photographs featuring Israel Kamakawiwo'Ole, the Hawaiian singer with an unparalleled voice. Hawai'i '78 ; White Sandy Beach; 'Opae E; Kaleohano; Na Ka Pueo; Hi'ilawe; N Dis Life (In This Life); Ka Pua U'I; Kuhio Bay; Henehene Kou 'Aka; Panini Puakea; Wind Beneath My Wings/He Hawai'i Au; Starting All Over Again; Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World; Kamalani.