The ABRSM Songbook 4

The 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.

Book with 2CDs.

Features:

• Art songs, drawn from Grade 4 of the Associated Boards Singing syllabus
• A range of repertoire from the Medieval to modern musicals – many in practical new editions
• Irresistible new arrangements by Carol Barratt of classic songs
• 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 textto every song, performed by native speakers

Contents

• Art Songs****
• A Cradle Song Ralph Vaughan Williams
• A New Year CarolBenjamin Britten
• A Smuggler’s SongChristopher Le Fleming
• Blow, blow, thou winter windThomas Arne
• Clock-a-clayRichard Rodney Bennett
• Consider yourselfLionel Bart
• Die WaiseRobert Schumann
• Down by the salley gardensAir: The Maids of Mourne Shore, Arr. Carol Barratt
• Fy nghalonWelsh Traditional, Arr. Carol Barratt
• I feel prettyLeonard Bernstein
• Long ago and far awayJerome Kern
• Long Time AgoAnon., Arr. Copland
• Love quickly is pall’dHenry Purcell
• Med en Primula verisEdvard Grieg
• O cessate di piagarmiAlessandro Scarlatti
• One Hand, One HeartLeonard Bernstein
• SeligkeitFranz Schubert
• She’s like the swallowTraditional Newfoundland, Arr.Carol Barratt
• ShinyCecil Cope
• Silent WorshipGeorge Frideric Handel, Arr. Arthur Somervell
• Since first I saw your faceThomas Ford
• The Dormouse’s CarolElizabeth Poston
• The Woodcutter’s SongRalph Vaughan Williams

• When daisies piedThomas Arne

• Traditional Songs

• A mi hazunk elejeHungary
• Black is the colourUSA
• BunclodyIreland
• El galan incognitoSpain/Latin America
• Greenland Whale FisheryDevon, England
• Mak InangMalaysia
• Mengjiang nuJiangsu Province, China
• The CageLancashire, England
• The Donside Emigrant’s FarewellCorgarff, Aberdeenshire
• The Wings of a GullEngland
• TudoraBulgaria
• Y deryn purWales