With a CD of Piano Accompaniments-15 More American Art Songs (Low Voice) features an excellent selection of art songs for student singers including songs by Barber Beach Duke Hoiby Ives Niles Schuman and others.Theenhanced CD includes Piano accompaniments playable on both your CD player and computer as well as tempo adjustment and transposition software for CD-ROM computer use only.

from More Songs of the Countryside-Michael Head's Foxgloves in the key of A Flat for Low Voice with Piano accompaniment.

Low Voice. Italian composer Franceso Paolo Tosti (1846-1916) wrote more than 350 songs among which were favorites of famous singers from Caruso and Tetrazzini in his day to Pavarotti and Carreras in ours. With a direct andsimple grace and sensual Italianate vocal lines his works were in some ways an art music reply to the Neapolitan folk tradition. Featuring 30 Tosti songs available for the first time in two keys these editions present excellentmaterial for teaching the basics of classical singing as well as for the recital stage. They also include translations for study a biography of the composer and a select discography.

pour voix moyenne ou grave-The melodies of MAURICE RAVEL (1875-1937) span the entire chronology of his creative output from his earliest song BALLADE DE LA REINE MORTE D`AIMER (1893) written during his student years at the Paris Conservatory to the cycle DON QUICHOTTE ÀDULCINÉE (1932-33) his last compositions in any genre. In his songs Ravel’s text settings display a meticulous attention to detail. Ravel´s melodies are elegant and refined classical in their phrase structure. In his treatment of rhythm Ravelfinds subtlety within traditional meters and dance forms-minuet waltz folk dances (especially Spanish dance) -also shape the rhythm in many of his songs.

An attractive collection of American and British songs for the progressing singer. Includes a companion CD of piano accompaniments. Songs include Bright is the Ring of Words by Ralph Vaughn Williams Spring Sorrow by John Ireland Money O! by Michael Head and three songs by Benjamin Britten: The Ash Grove O Waly Waly and The Salley Gardens among others!

This is the first substantial collection ever published of songs by Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) composer of the operas The Mother of Us All and Four Saints in Three Acts. Thomson's musical style was based inAmericana but he was attracted to abstract poetry. The unique result is traditionalism turned on its ear. The songs date from 1926 until 1974.

This collection representing major composers was compiled as an introduction to British song literature for collegiate age singers and advanced high school age singers.

15 mélodies de compositeurs américains - une sélection qui devrait intéresser en particulier ceux qui étudient le chant. Le CD contient l'accompagnent au piano. / Voix Grave Et Piano / Partition Cd