Music-Minus-One

Nine popular songs for men from hit Broadway shows are featured in this book with CD that includes two tracks for each song - one demo track and one backing track so you can sing along. Includes: Put on a Happy Face (from Bye Bye Birdie) · Try to Remember (from Fantasticks) · I Believe in You (from How to Succeed in Business) · Lucky to Be Me (from Mack and Mabel) · The Yankee Doodle Boy (from George M. Cohan) · Stranger in Paradise (from Kismet) · And This Is My Beloved (from Kismet) · Ordinary People (from Kwamina).

Songs in the Style of Nat King Cole-Ten swingin' big band standards are included in this collection with a CD featuring two tracks for each song - one demo track and one play-along track so you can be the soloist. Includes: Pretend · Darling Je Vous Aime Beaucoup · Route 66 · Walkin' My Baby Back Home · Somewhere Along the Way · A Blossom Fell · Too Young · Makin' Whoopee · Mona Lisa · Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire).

Songs in the Style of Linda Ronstadt-Ten familiar classics as Linda Ronstadt would perform them are showcased in this vocal book with a CD that features two tracks for each song - one example vocal track and a separate backing track. Songs: What's New · Crazy He Calls Me · Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be) · When I Fall in Love · Skylark · Mean to Me · You Took Advantage of Me · Sophisticated Lady · Day In Day Out · Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered.

In 1857 and 1858 as Richard Wagner had come to the completion of Die Walkure the second installment in his epic opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen he took time out to write a series of lieder for (and based on poems by)Mathilde Wesendonck with whom Wagner was believed to have been at the very least extremely infatuated. Whatever the truth might have been behind their relationship it is known that Wagner had met Mathilde's husband Otto inZurich and his ensuing friendship with the couple led to this beautiful set of lieder.Wagner himself called two of the set's songs (Im Treibhaus and Traume) ?studies? for his magnificent opera Tristan andIsolde and though originally intended for female voice with piano all of these songs were eventually orchestrated either by Wagner (in the case of Traume) or by other composers. When they were first performed in 1862 they weretitled Five Songs for a Female Voice. In the 20th century they also became very popular songs for some of the greatest tenors.Much earlier in 1839 Wagner had composed a three-song cycle called Trois Melodies. The firstpiece entitled Dors mon enfant was a lullaby that Wagner ascribed to an unnamed young poet of his publisher's acquaintance and of which he wrote that his wife had called ?heavenly for sending one to sleep?. He thenset Ronsard's song Mignonne and Victor Hugo's L'attente (from that author's Orientales) to round out the set. Wagner offered L'attente to the reigning diva of the time Pauline Viardot who is said to have flatly refused it.Wagner wrote in his memoirs My Life ?I have no reason to be ashamed of these small pieces.?Listen to brilliant tenor Jon Robert Cart perform these lieder. Then he steps aside and you take center stage with yourvirtuoso accompanist Narciso Solero at the piano.

Singer's Choice - Professional Tracks for Serious Singers-Nine Irving Berlin classics for male vocalists are presented in this package which is designed to provide the at-home singer with an actual professional setting.Sing The Songs Of Irving Berlin includes the favourites Cheek To Cheek Steppin' Out With My Baby Let's Face The Music And Dance Change Partners Let Yourself Go Say It Isn't So Isn't This A Lovely Day This Year's Kisses and Be Careful It's My Heart