American Art Songs for the Progressing Singer - Mezzo-Soprano

Ces magnifiques volumes permettront d'initier les chanteurs classiques à l'American art song, et comprennent les pièces les plus étudiées dans ce genre. Ce sont les capacités vocales et musicales des institutions musicales et universités qui ont guidé le choix des oeuvres mises à disposition dans cette série. Les volumes Soprano et Mezzo-Soprano/Alto contiennent les mêmes chansons dans des tonalités différentes. Le même concept s'applique aux versions Ténor et Baryton/Basse.Des compositions d'Ernst Bacon, Samuel Barber, Theodore Chanler, Celius Dougherty, Lee Hoiby, John Jacob Niles, William Schuman et bien d'autres sont présentes dans ces recueils. / Tenor Et Piano

Ces magnifiques volumes permettront d'initier les chanteurs classiques à l'American art song, et comprennent les pièces les plus étudiées dans ce genre. Ce sont les capacités vocales et musicales des institutions musicales et universités qui ont guidé le choix des oeuvres mises à disposition dans cette série. Les volumes Soprano et Mezzo-Soprano/Alto contiennent les mêmes chansons dans des tonalités différentes. Le même concept s'applique aux versions Ténor et Baryton/Basse.Des compositions d'Ernst Bacon, Samuel Barber, Theodore Chanler, Celius Dougherty, Lee Hoiby, John Jacob Niles, William Schuman et bien d'autres sont présentes dans ces recueils. / Mezzo-Soprano Et Piano

The song repertoire has its origins in the late nineteenth century when every household had a piano and for much of the twentieth century singers and their pianist collaborators were able to create recital programmes from a deepreservoir of European and North American song. The recital genre became more sophisticated as the century progressed and metamorphosed from a miscellaneous collection of lollipops to something altogether more sophisticated oftenfeaturing elaborate themes which would enable the music to be presented in a variety of new contexts. In the twenty first century opportunities for recitalists are fewer and programmes still tend to focus on the much-loved butwell-explored repertoire. We hope this collection will contribute to a broadening of possibilities for recitalists or anyone who just wants something new to sing.There are several songs for voice and piano but some requireother instruments. There is a wide range of styles. We have resisted the temptation to grade them by difficulty as our criteria were more broadly performative and musical rather than didactic. All selected composers have aparticular sympathy for the singing voice so there is nothing that cannot be sung by a competent performer. The songs generally have a designated voice type but this shouldn't be thought of as prescriptive; they are designed tobe flexible and to offer the maximum opportunity for creative interpretation. They range from the curious and quirky to the virtuosic and challenging the intense and mysterious to the sad and the light-hearted. We hope that manyperformers will find their tastes represented here.Compiled by David Blake and John Potter.Edited by Michael Hooper.