Roger Quilter - Collected Songs

The Heritage of English Song series is a terrific collection that presents and preserves the long and glorious tradition of English song.Book 12 contains a stunning selection of Roger Quilter songs selected and introduced by Trevor Hold. Quilter was a modest songwriter who encapsulated his ideas with uncomplicated but effective music. Subtle generous and warm they are a delight to play and sing both for amateur or professional.The Twelve Songs in this volume represent the height of Quilter's work from 1908 to 1935. All pieces are in wonderful settings for medium-high Voice and Piano.

This collection for progressing students includes art songs as well as arrangements of folksongs and spirituals. ART SONGS Anonymous: Pastime with good company · Campian: Jack and Joan · Dowland: Come again sweet love · Dowland: What if I never speed · Gibbons: The Silver Swan · Ireland: Spring Sorrow · Lawes: How happy art thou · Morley: It was a lover and his lass · Morley: Now is the month of Maying · Purcell: I attempt from love's sickness · Purcell: Nymphs and Shepherds · Quilter: Weep you no more · Vaughan Williams: The Call · Vaughan Williams: Bright is the ring of words · FOLKSONGS/SPIRITUALS All Through the Night (arr. Nicholl) · The Gospel Train (Walters) · Greensleeves(arr. Stanley) · He's Got the Whole World in His Hands (arr. Boyd) · How Can I Keep from Singing (arr. Ruck) · I gave my love a cherry (arr. Dean) · Jacob's Ladder (arr. Walters) · My Lord What a Mornin' (arr. Burleigh) · Shenandoah (arr. Walters) · Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (arr. Walters) · This Little Light of Mine (arr. Ruck).

Roger Quilter (1877-1953) was a British composer best known for writing many gentle and beautiful songs. Along with Henry Balfour Gardiner and Percy Grainger he was a member of the Frankfurt Group a group of friends who studied composition together at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. Three Pastoral Songs (Op.22) is a collection of three songs based on countryside scenes: I will go with my father a-ploughing - Cherry valley - I wish and I wish. They are arranged here for High Voice with Violin Cello and Piano.

Roger Quilter is one of England's finest art song composers and his songs have remained firmly in the vocal repertoire since their appearance early in the 20th century. In these songs he demonstrates an extraordinary skill in setting English poetry and shows what can be achieved in the miniature form. Specially compiled to mark the 50th anniversary of the composer's death this new collection includes well-known favourites alongside works which have been unavailable for many years and three previously unpublished songs. This is the low Voice edition containing arrangements for Low and Mens? voices.