ISBN 9781860966002. The five-volume ABRSM Songbook series features over 100 songs, drawn from the comprehensive Associated Board's singing syllabus. These albums provide pieces from the Renaissance to the 20th century, many of them newly edited by Michael Pilkington. Numerous folk-songs, either in new arrangements by Carol Barratt or their classic versions, more...and a selection of traditional songs collected from around the world, complete this series (with CD).
CDs. Exam Music. ABRSM Publications.
Contents
Introduction
-Biographies
Art Songs
-Compilers' note
-Notes on the editorial approach
-Notes on the art songs
A Cradle Song Ralph Vaughan Williams
A New Year Carol (No. 5 from Friday Afternoons, Op. 7) Benjamin Britten
A Smuggler's Song Christopher Le Fleming
Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thomas Arne
Clock-a-clay (No. 4 from The Insect World) Richard Rodney Bennett
Consider yourself (from Oliver!) Lionel Bart
Die Waise (The Orphan), No. 14 from Lieder-album fur die Jugend, Op. 79 Robert Schumann
Down by the salley gardens Air: The Maids of Mourne Shore, arr. Carol Barratt
Fy nghalon (My Heart) Welsh traditional, arr. Carol Barratt
I feel pretty (from West Side Story) Leonard Bernstein
Long ago and far away (from Cover Girl) Jerome Kern
Long Time Ago (No. 3 from Old American Songs, Set I) Anonymous, arr. Copland
Love quickly is pall'd (from Timon of Athens, Z. 632) Henry Purcell
Med en Primula veris (The First Primrose), No. 4 from Fem digte, Op. 26 Edvard Grieg
O cessate di piagarmi from Il Pompeo (Cease, oh cease from cruel wounding) Alessandro Scarlatti
One Hand, One Heart (from West Side Story) Leonard Bernstein
Seligkeit (Heavenly Bliss), D. 433) Franz Schubert
She's like the swallow Traditional Newfoundland, arr. Carol Barratt
Shiny (No. 2 from Two Songs from The Wandering Moon) Cecil Cope
Silent Worship (or 'Non lo diro ocol labbro' from Tolomeo, HWV 25) George Frideric Handel, arr. Somervell
Since first I saw your face Thomas Ford
The Dormouse's Carol Elizabeth Poston
The Woodcutter's Song (No. 6 from Seven Songs from The Pilgrim's Progress) Ralph Vaughan Williams
When daisies pied Thomas Arne
Traditional Songs
-Compilers' note
A mi hazunk eleje (From my window) Hungary
Black is the colour USA
Bunclody Ireland
El galan incognito (The Incognito Gallant) Spain/Latin America
Greenland Whale Fishery Devon, England
Mak Inang (The Inang Dance) Malaysia
Mengjiang nu (Ballad of Meng Jiang Nu) Jiangsu Province, China
The Cage Lancashire, England
The Donside Emigrant's Farewell Corgarff, Aberdeenshire
The Wings of a Gull England
Tudora Bulgaria
Y deryn pur (The Dove) Wales
