The ABRSM Songbook 5

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 5 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 Nightingale Sang in Berkeley SquareManning Sherwin
• An SylviaFranz Schubert
• Dove sei?George Frideric Handel
• Fear no more the heat o’ the sunIan Higginson
• From a Railway CarriageAlec Rowley
• Hirschlein ging im Wald spazierenPeter Cornelius
• I attempt from love’s sickness to flyHenry Purcell
• If doughty deedsSir Arthur Seymour Sullivan
• It was a lover and his lassThomas Morley
• Jeg elsker DigEdvard Grieg
• Jsem jako lipa kosataAntonin Dvorak
• Linden LeaRalph Vaughan Williams
• Love Walked InIra and George Gershwin
• Maria WiegenliedMax Reger
• My ShipKurt Weill
• Rejoice in the LordJames Nares
• Rugiadose odoroseAlessandro Scarlatti
• Simple GiftsAmerican Traditional, Arr. Aaron Copland
• Tell me, lovely shepherdWilliam Boyce
• The Birds’ LamentRichard Rodney Bennett
• Trade WindsFrederick Keel
• Una palomita blancaJoaquin Rodrigo
• Vergebliches StandchenJohannes Brahms
• Vieni, vieni o mio dilettoAntonio Vivaldi
• Where the bee sucksThomas Arne

• Where’er you walkGeorge Frideric Handel

• Traditional Songs

• Bengawan SoloIndonesia
• Cantilena del ‘Maggio’Tuscany, Italy
• Canto de la trillaMolina, Spain
• Henry MartynDevon, England
• MolihuaJiangsu Province, China
• Noches de lunaArgentina
• Tatties an’ Herrin’Aberdeen, Scotland
• The Banks of NewfoundlandCornwall, England
• The Blackbird of AvondaleIreland
• The Sprig of ThymeLincolnshire, England
• The Woods of TrughIreland
• To be a Farmer’s BoySussex, England