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-bar cut suggestions for each song make it the most useful and relevant song library of its kind. Titles: I'm Not That Smart (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) * My Unfortunate Erection (Chip's Lament) (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) * Dames (42nd Street) * Radames' Letter (Elton John and Tim Rice's 'Aida') * The Gypsy in Me Anything Goes (1988 Revival)) * Ballad of Booth (Part III) (Assassins) * What Am I Doin'? (Closer Than Ever) * Broadway Baby (Dames At Sea) * Blah, Blah, Blah (Delicious) * When the Earth Stopped Turning (Elegies) * You Gotta Die Sometime (Falsettos) * I Want to Make Magic (Fame: The Musical) * Sandy (Grease) * Donna (Hair) * Different (Honk!) * The Phone Call (Lucky Stiff) * Knowing Me, Knowing You (Mamma Mia) * To Each His Dulcinea (Man of La Mancha) * Larger Than Life (My Favorite Year) * I'm Falling in Love with Someone (Naughty Marrietta) * And They're Off (A New Brain) * Stouthearted Men (The New Moon) * Lucky to Be Me (On the Town) * A New Town Is a Blue Town (The Pajama Game) * Extraordinary (Pippin) * There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York (Porgy / Instrumental Music, Miscellaneous, Songbooks, Voca / Recueil / Voix et Piano

37 Favourite SongsInstrument : Voice and PianoType : song bookNombre de Pages : 88Six outstanding collections of favourite songs (Songs of England, Songs of Ireland, Songs of Scotland, Songs of Wales, Songs of Christmas, Songs of the Americans). All arrangements include the melody line in the accompaniment so that the songs work equally well as piano solos. Ideal for playing at home, in the classroom, or even as concert items!Includes Danny Boy, Cockles and Mussels and Down by the Salley Gardens.The edition is part of the ABRSM singing exam syllabus (grade 1,2,3).Content : Believe Me - Come Back to Erin - I Will Walk with My Love - I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen - Kathleen Mavoumeen - Kelly the Pirate - The Gypsy Rover - The Lover's Curse - The Meeting of the Waters - The Minstrel Boy - The Rose of Tralee - The Spinning Wheel - The Young May Moon - As I Was Going Along the Road - Avenging and Bright - Cockles and Mussels - Danny Boy - Down by the Salley Gardens - Here Come the Navvies - Hey Ho, the Moming Dew - I Know Where I'm Goin' - If AII Those Endearing Young Charms - Kitty of Coleraine - Lullaby - Oft, in the Stilly Night - The Boys of Kilkenny - The Dear Little Shamrock - The Flight of the Earls - The Garden Where the Praties Grow - The Harp That Once Thro' Tara's Halls - The Irish Emigrant - The Last Rose of Summer - The Mallow Fling - The Praties They Grow Small - The Star of the County Down - The Wearin' o' the Green - Tramping Song - Trottin' to the Fair

230 folk songs and spirituals, religious and secular, arranged for piano and voice. From joyous gospel to deeply felt blues, this wonderful collection contains vintage songs sung and played through the years by black Americans - at work, in church and for pure entertainment. Included are spirituals, blues, work songs and a variety of social and dance songs. This is an indispensable treasury of music for singers, musicians and all readers seeking a comprehensive sourcebook of black American folk music. It will be equally welcomed at parties, family get-togethers, sing-alongs, church events and other gatherings where people want to play and sing these classic folk songs thatare an integral part of American musical history./ Recueil / Chant et Piano

This outstanding collection of 90 carols offers a balanced mixture of accompanied and unaccompanied items which will appeal immediately to conductors, singers and audiences alike. Mostly for mixed voices, it includes 16 carols and a further 39 arrangements published here for the first time. From Gabrielli to Judith Weir, medieval melodies to spirituals, the range of styles covers a wide spectrum of tastes. Conductors will welcome the availability of optional orchestral material available on hire for 24 of the carols, to allow for performances without organ. This major issue of carols is edited by William Llewellyn, a well established figure in the world of choral music. / Chant Et Piano

47 favourite songsInstrument : Voice and PianoType : song bookNombre de Pages : 100Six outstanding collections of favourite songs (Songs of England, Songs of Ireland, Songs of Scotland, Songs of Wales, Songs of Christmas, Songs of the Americans). All arrangements include the melody line in the accompaniment so that the songs work equally well as piano solos. Ideal for playing at home, in the classroom, or even as concert item!An international collection, including Stille Nacht, Fum! Fum! Fum!, Mary Had a Baby and O TannenbaumThe edition is part of the ABRSM syllabus (grades 1, 2 and 3).Content : As Joseph was a-Walking - Come and Adore Him - En Balén tocan a fuego - En nombre del Cielo - Es steht ein'Lind'im Himmelreich - Gabriel's Message - Go Tell it on the Mountain - Huachitorito - I Wonder as I Wander - Il est né le divin Enfant! - No Room was there for Mary - O Sleep My Pretty Baby - O Tannenbaum - Rise Up Shepherd - Rocky Rocky Road - Stille Nacht! heilige Nacht! - The Carnal and the Crane - The Yodlers' Carol - Un flambeau Jeanette Isabella! - Up Good Christian Folk - Wassail Song - Zither Carol - A la ru-ru-ru - A Yuletide Feast - All Poor Men and Humble - Carol of the Drum - Célébrons la Naissance - Christmas in Rome - De tierra lejana venimos - Earth's Joy - Es wird schon gleich dunkel - Fum Fum Fum! - Heer Jezus heeft een Hofken - Huron Indian Carol - Infant Holy Infant Lowly - Jesi is Crying - Joseph lieber Joseph mein - Lippai steh auf vom Schlaf - Lullaby for baby Jesus - Mary had a Baby - Quelle est cette odeur agréable - Sans Day Carol - The Cuckoo Carol - The Gower Wassail - The Holly Tree - The Praise of Christmas - The Virgin Mary had a Baby Boy

Une édition critique nouvelle majeure d'important répertoire standard avec 61 chansons en 2 volumes. Toutes les chansons sont présentés uniquement dans la clé de l'originale, avec aucune transpositions. Tous les cycles de chansons et les groupements apparaissent dans un des deux volumes. Années en préparation, cette édition est basée sur les sources plus fiables disponibles dans le monde, avec la plus grande partie de la recherche centrée à la Bibliothèque Nationale à Paris. Chaque chanson est présenté avec une traduction en ligne par ligne et notes complet critiques, citant la recherche qu'elle s'applique aux spécificités dans les chansons. Comprend également un glossaire de termes français. / Chant Et Piano / Partition

Kammeroper Nr. 2. Par RIHM WOLFGANG. Chamber opera does not mean “little opera.” On the same scale as chamber music is to the symphony, it is rather the other way of talking onstage. The movable apparatus permits sophisticated voice-leading. A large ensemble demands simple conception to achieve the complexity it perhaps intends; this can be formulated more sharply and nuanced in a chamber ensemble. Therefore it is the subject which this type of presentation must sustain – or, better, provoke. Büchner’s Lenz is a description of the conditions within a process of collapse, moments of destruction already occurred but not yet accepted, evident in the points of contact with the environment. And it was those points of contact which Michael Fröhling attempted to reconstruct onstage. Lenz’s distraught state is always the same; only the proximity of the environment to that distraught state grows and ebbs. The musical consequence An hour of extreme chamber music results from this description: always bound for the main character – actually, not a commentary, but the main character himself as a multilayered level of action. Although Lenz acts on many levels – or tries to or believes he is – he has no room to manoeuvre. That is why he is also tightly interwoven in his sonic surroundings; the voices which only he hears are just as much himself as the two men with whom he foregathers (the liberal pragmatist Oberlin and the alert merchant who always “does the right thing” in every situation) – they evoke responses which he deeply desires. Omnipresent Friederike is just as much his inner world as Nature is – Nature, which he can no longer perceive unless it is personified, enlivened or dead. Therefore, the music’s task is both to motivate the “situation” (atmospherically) and to be the psychological constant (via a network of entangled references per se) in an action as it is played out. The compositional process December 1977 to June 1978 – a period identical to the stepwise understanding of an existence as that of Jakob Lenz. Yet the more the historical figure became precisely attendant in my intellect in terms of data and atmosphere, the more it retreated in favour of a cipher of disturbance as I began to understand Lenz. Thence the explanation for the failure of the attempts to approach him – including my attempt to interpret him via musical representation – because, essentially, Lenz himself is the failure. Only the naked stages of that failure remain portrayable, i.e. including the failure of those who wish to “help” Lenz, for example, while Lenz himself is already trapped inextricably in a state of complete destruction. I tried to compose my way into that situation as far as possible; the insistence of several rhythmic and harmonic configurations is the palpable expression of the main character’s ever-recurring rigidity. One sound pervades the entire work. The musical stage For me, this is a place where very magical and very human things take place. In Jakob Lenz, the human aspects often switch to magical ones, since the realism of a self-suasive, unhinged soul takes on surreal traits – or we simply cannot understand that otherwise except as not being real. A character like Jakob Lenz on the stage is complex due to the fact alone that it harbours many stages within itself, and music must represent those constantly present stages. I have tried to do so in the most direct way – by not cleanly separating the musical layers, but keeping them constantly in evidence until they must break forth, each in accord with its own dramaturgy. In an overview, the large form takes on aspects of a rondo, performed in overlapping layers – a type of rondo relief, since perspectives of psychological proximity and distance are indeed formulated musically as atmospheric relations. Above all: the thread on which Jakob Lenz hangs is the current onto the listeners’ hearts. Wolfgang Rihm (January 1979)/ Répertoire / Chant et Piano

Par SILVERMAN JERRY. In this meticulously researched anthology, Jerry Silverman uses the popular music of the World War I (1912-1919) to provide a thorough overview of the political and social milieu of the times as well as a sense of the futility of war. Extensive historical notes and period photographs enhance this collection of 59 songs chosen for their musical value as much as for their historical significance. Silvernman writes, 'There were two parallel streams of songs being created during the course of 'the war to end all wars'-one by the soldiers 'over there' and the other by songwriters 'over here'.' Tin Pan Alley titles include: It's a Long Way to Tipperary, 'Til the Boys Come Home (Keep the Home Fires Burning), I Don't Want to War, I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier, I've Got the Army Blues, Hello Central-Give Me France, Over There, Oh! How to Get Up in the Morning, and How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm - Tin Hat Alley tunes include: Diggin', Deep-Sea Blues, When I Lay Down, The Passing Pilot and Hinky Dinky, Parley-voo. Each song is shown in piano/vocal format with accompaniment chord symbols. Many of the soldiers' songs appear in print here for the first time. / Niveau : Débutant à Intermédiaire / Songbooks / Recueil / Chant et Piano

Gaspare Spontini, composer and conductor, was celebrated for his operas in the late 1700s and early 1800s, although he also composed several pieces of vocal chamber music at the same time. The chamber repertoire was composed with the amateur performer in mind: the tessitura of his melodies falls mostly within the medium/high range and does not call for any special techniques. This does not, however, diminish the artistic value of his chamber music- indeed, it is a body of work of great interest and beauty. Each piece was written for a single voice accompanied by the piano or the harp - the two instruments most commonly found in salons of the time - and in a variety of forms: bagatelle, barcarole, chansonnette, romance, stances, stances élégiaques, élégie, strophes, Lied, romanze, ariette, melodici accenti, duetti and duetti notturni. In addition to a selection of compositions for medium-range voices - proposed here in the original tonic key - this book also includes the most celebrated and significant of Spontini's compositions. / Voix Moyenne(s) Et Piano

Certain songs have the tendency to become massive hits as soon as they are released and continue to be hugely successful as they are covered or reworked, or simply because they are perfect compositions. Timeless Songs For Easy Piano collects 25 of these songs that have stood the test of time in easy Piano arrangement.The works included in this songbook are all examples of the kinds of brilliant melodies, sumptuous harmonies or poetic lyrics that have kept people listening for 50 years and more. Songs like At Last, Blue Moon and Over The Rainbow will never go out of fashion simply because they are universally loved. This makes the songs in this collection perfect for any beginner Piano player because all of these tunes are instantly recognisable and are sure to be crowd-pleasers with any audience.The simplified arrangements included in the Easy Piano books enable pianists of all abilities to easy play the all-time great songs as sung by performers like Etta James, Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra. With chord names and helpful fingering suggestions throughout, this songbook is the perfect introduction to popular songs for the Piano without intimidation.For a beginner who wants to learn to play some of the greatest songs ever written, this Timeless Songs For Easy Piano sheet music makes learning the best Piano standards simple. / Piano

This series features 50 songs, some that have never before appeared in any vocal collections. / Voix Et Piano