A new anthology of songs suitable for diploma-level performance. Available for high or low voice both volumes contain 22 songs in languages including English French Italian Welsh Catalan and Hindi with English translations included. Performance notes by Luise Horrocks available to download for free from trinitycollege.com/music-books

Hohe Stimme / High Voice-Schubert lieder for discerning musicians. The New Schubert Edition is the only scholarly-critical edition that will once completed include Franz Schubert's lieder in their entirety. In response to the rising expectations of performers and listeners alike all the lieder will be published over the next few years in performing editions containing the text of Walther Dürr the eminent Schubert scholar and former Managing Editor of the New Schubert Edition.Includes the definitive musical text from the New Schubert EditionNewly engraved with a spacious appearance and larger format (23 x 30 cm)Ideal page turnsEditorial decisions andconflicting readings from main sources are now identified in this performing editionAlternative versions are reproduced in the appendixIntroduction by Walther Dürr focuses on peculiarities in the genesis and performance history of each lied and provides solid information on performance practiceAdopts straightforward ordering principle from the New Schubert Edition: first by opus number then in chronological orderComplete transposition into three vocal registers finally allows every singer to work with the latest findings of Schubert scholarshipIncludes English translations of the lieder texts by Richard WigmoreThe edition is scheduled to consists of 13 volumes. Each volume will appear in three editions; one for high voice one for middle voice and one for low voice.

The demand for literature in Spanish is a reflection of our changing American culture. Here are twelve songs in two keys that can serve as an introduction to art songs in Spanish for a voice student. International PhoneticAlphabet is included for each song text as are translations for study. Laura Ward has recorded wonderful informed piano accompaniments on the companion CD. Before the accompaniment a excellently instructive pronunciationlesson recorded by a native Spanish speaker (a university Spanish professor) is heard. The songs are by Manuel de Falla Enrique Granados and Fernando Obradors with an additional two Mexican folksong arrangements. A beautifulVelasquez painting is seen on the cover.

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).

This collection includes new arrangements for voice and piano of six songs originally published in Ten Christmas Carols from the Southern Appalachian Mountains collected by John Jacob Niles as well as familiar classicscomposed by Niles. The recorded performances will help all become familiar with these new settings. All selections are appropriate for student singers as well as more experienced singers for use in Christmas services. Contents:The Carol of the Birds ? The Cherry Tree ? Down in yon forest ? The Flower of Jesse ? I wonder as I wander ? Jesus Jesus rest your head ? Jesus the Christ is born ? Lulle Lullay ? SeeJesus the Saviour ? The Seven Joys of Mary ? Sweet little boy Jesus ? What Songs Were Sung.

7 Songs-This fine album contains 7 songs for high voice and keyboard composed by Henry Purcell and edited by Michael Tippet and Walter Bergmann. Titles are: The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation An Epithalamium (Wedding Song) Sweeter Than Roses 'Twas Within A Furlong Of Edinborough Town Music For A While If Music Be The Food Of Love and Rondo (I Attempt From Love's Sickness To Fly).