ISBN 9781860965999. 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
Ah! how pleasant 'tis to love Henry Purcell
Dalmatian Cradle Song Anonymous, arr. Hugh S. Roberton
Die Bekehrte (The Encounter) Ignaz Brull
Ferry me across the water (No. 7 from Ten Children's Songs, Op. 1) Gerald Finzi
God be in my head Walford Davies
I'm learning to read (from The Banky Field) Betty Roe
In the garden flowers are growing (No. 2 from Ukrainian Folk Songs) Ukrainian traditional, arr. W. H. Anderson
Komm, liebe Zither, komm (Come sweetest zither, come) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Llwyn Onn (The Ash Grove) Welsh traditional, arr. Carol Barratt
Minnelied (Love-song) D. 429 Franz Schubert
'Orrible Little Blue-Eyes (from The Barnstormers) Betty Roe
My House (from Peter Pan) Leonard Bernstein
Sicilian River Song Anonymous, arr. Maurice Jacobson
Sweet and low Joseph Barnby
The Banks of Allan Water Melody 'by a lady', arr. Carol Barratt
The Owls Peter Jenkyns
The Path to the Moon Eric Thiman
The Sunflower Irish traditional, arr. Carol Barratt
Wiegenlied (Cradle Song) Op. 27, No. 5 Wilhelm Taubert, arr. Carol Barratt
Windy Nights Charles Villiers Stanford
Traditional Songs
-Compilers' note
Aa Ola, Ola, min eigen onge! (O Ola, Ola, you did betray me) Norway
A la nanita nana (Hush pretty baby hush) Spain
All things are quite silent Sussex, England
Coasts of Barbary Devon, England
Cuckoo Devon, England
Fengyang huagu 1 and 2 (Fengyang song) Anhui Province, China
Green Besoms Devon, England
Kalevalainen runosavelma (Lines from the Kalevala) Finland
Roman Castillo Mexico
Seventeen Come Sunday Sussex, England
Stole mi se ozeni (Stojan's Wife) Serbia
Sweet Nightingale Cornwall, England
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