The ABRSM Songbook, Book 4
Price: £15.95
Instrumentation: Voice & piano & 2 CDs
Format: Sheet Music, Book & CD
Extent: 96 pages
ISBN: 9781860966002
- The five-volume ABRSM Songbook series offers singers and their teachers an unrivalled choice of core repertoire that will provide the bedrock for many years of rewarding vocal study. The series features:
- Over 100 art songs, drawn from Grades 1–5 of the Associated Board’s Singing syllabus
- A massive range of repertoire from the Medieval to modern musicals – many in practical new editions
- Irresistible new arrangements by Carol Barratt of 18 classic songs
- A rich collection of 60 authentic unaccompanied traditional songs, sourced from around the world
- English singing translations for every non-English-language song – many newly-commissioned
- Useful notes on the songs containing background information and performance suggestions
- CDs of piano accompaniments to all the art songs, performed by Simon Lepper, as well as recordings of the text to every song, performed by native speakers
Series: Vocal Music
Contents
- Ralph Vaughan Williams A Cradle Song
- A mi házunk eleje
- Benjamin Britten A New Year Carol
- Christopher Le Fleming A Smuggler’s Song
- Black is the colour
- Thomas Arne Blow, blow, thou winter wind
- Bunclody
- Richard Rodney Bennett Clock-a-clay
- Lionel Bart Consider yourself
- Robert Schumann Die Waise
- arr. Carol Barratt Down by the salley gardens
- El galán incógnito
- arr. Carol Barratt Fy nghalon
- Greenland Whale Fishery
- Leonard Bernstein I feel pretty
- Jerome Kern Long ago and far away
- arr. Copland Long Time Ago
- Henry Purcell Love quickly is pall’d
- Mak Inang
- Grieg Med en Primula veris
- Mengjiang nü
- A. Scarlatti O cessate di piagarmi from Il Pompeo
- Leonard Bernstein One Hand, One Heart
- Franz Schubert Seligkeit
- She’s like the swallow
- Cecil Cope Shiny
- George Frideric Handel arr. Somervell Silent Worship
- Thomas Ford Since first I saw your face
- The Cage
- The Donside Emigrant’s Farewell
- Elizabeth Poston The Dormouse’s Carol
- The Wings of a Gull
- Ralph Vaughan Williams The Woodcutter’s Song
- Tudora
- Thomas Arne When daisies pied
- Y deryn pur
Publication Date: 4th September 2008
Associated Board syllabus information- Voice 2009 onwards Grade 4 A1
- Voice 2009 onwards Grade 4 A13
- Voice 2009 onwards Grade 4 A15
- Voice 2009 onwards Grade 4 A2
- Voice 2009 onwards Grade 4 A30
- Voice 2009 onwards Grade 4 A7
- Voice 2009 onwards Grade 4 A7
- Voice 2009 onwards Grade 4 B16
- Voice 2009 onwards Grade 4 B24
- Voice 2009 onwards Grade 4 B31
- Voice 2009 onwards Grade 4 B33
- Voice 2009 onwards Grade 4 B39
- Voice 2009 onwards Grade 4 B4
- Voice 2009 onwards Grade 4 B40
- Voice 2009 onwards Grade 4 B41
- Voice 2009 onwards Grade 4 C10
- Voice 2009 onwards Grade 4 C17
- Voice 2009 onwards Grade 4 C18
- Voice 2009 onwards Grade 4 C2
- Voice 2009 onwards Grade 4 C3
- Voice 2009 onwards Grade 4 C6
- Voice 2009 onwards Grade 4 C7
- Voice 2009 onwards Grade 4 C9