15 Art Songs By American Composers

This set of pieces by Alice Parker to poetry by Nancy Wood was commissioned by the American Composers Forum for the ChoralQuest program allowing middle school choirs to discover music of varying moods and rhythms. The first in theset “What I Am I Must Become” creates a thoughtful quiet mood through four riddle-like statements. “Song Woman” celebrates the voices and lives of women through cheerful lighter motion and the final song“When Trouble Comes to Me” gives voice to the young men gathering up their energy and strength and offering a positive outlet for their emotion. Additional interdisciplinary curriculum materials are available fordownload at choralquest.com .'

Selected art songs by prominent American composers in the G. Schirmer and AMP catalog including songs by Samuel Barber John Duke Lee Hoiby Charles Ives John Jacob Niles William Schuman and others.Includes worksfrom Ernst Bacon: It's all I have to bring • Samuel Barber: The Crucifixion; The Daisies; Hey nonny no!; The Monk and His Cat; Mother I cannot mind my wheel; A Slumber Song of the Madonna; Sure on this shiningnight • Paul Bowles: Cabin; Heavenly Grass; Sugar in the Cane • Theodore Chanler: The Lamb • Ernest Charles: When I Have Sung My Songs • John Duke: Loveliest of Trees • Richard Hageman:Do not go my love • Lee Hoiby: Where the Music Comes From • Carles Ives: In the mornin'; Serenity • Herbert Kingsley: The Green Dog • Charles Naginski: The Pasture • John Jacob Niles:Black is the color of my true love's hair; Go 'way from my window; The Lass from the Low Countree • Gladys Rich: American Lullaby • William Roy: This Little Rose • John Sacco: Brother Will BrotherJohn • William Schuman: Holiday Song; Orpheus with his lute.

Selected art songs by prominent American composers in the G. Schirmer and AMP catalog including songs by Samuel Barber John Duke Lee Hoiby Charles Ives John Jacob Niles William Schuman and others. Includes worksfrom Ernst Bacon: It's all I have to bring • Samuel Barber: The Crucifixion; The Daisies; Hey nonny no!; The Monk and His Cat; Mother I cannot mind my wheel; A Slumber Song of the Madonna; Sure on this shiningnight • Paul Bowles: Cabin; Heavenly Grass; Sugar in the Cane • Theodore Chanler: The Lamb • Ernest Charles: When I Have Sung My Songs • John Duke: Loveliest of Trees; Richard Hageman: Do not go mylove • Lee Hoiby: Where the Music Comes From • Carles Ives: In the mornin'; Serenity • Herbert Kingsley: The Green Dog • Charles Naginski: The Pasture • John Jacob Niles: Black is thecolor of my true love's hair; Go 'way from my window; The Lass from the Low Countree • Gladys Rich: American Lullaby • William Roy: This Little Rose • John Sacco: Brother Will Brother John •William Schuman: Holiday Song; Orpheus with his lute.

Five Love Songs are scored for Soprano and Guitar They were composed in 1955 making them one of the composer's earliest published works. They are dedicated to the Soprano Flore Wend and the guitarist HermannLeeb while the text is drawn from poems by the Welsh poet Robert Parry (1540-1612) which were first written around 1595. Thea Musgrave (b. 1928) is a Scottish-American composer. Over a career spanning more than60 years she has established herself as one of the leading contemporary composers on both sides of the Atlantic.

Three classic songs from the one of the greatest American composers of the twentieth century Gershwin.

28 by British and American Composers-This compilation includes compositions by Samuel Barber Leonard Bernstein Gian Carlo Menotti and Ralph Vaughan Williams setting the texts of celebrated poets such as A. E. Housman Christina Rossetti and Hillaire Belloc.

The American composer and pianist Edward MacDowell (1860 1908) is rather unknown in Europe although he had his artistic roots there for he was trained as a pianist in Paris Stuttgart Wiesbaden and Frankfurt. After returning to his home country he worked as a teacher while also being the director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for eight years. During his studies in Germany the musician already began to compose songs (with German texts) still in the European tradition. From 1886 he used English lyricism as a basis and preferred a sparing yet expressive accompaniment of the piano. In his last songs he placed special emphasis on the declamatory aspect of the text and expandedthe harmonic range of his tonal language. Of his 42 solo songs the present volume contains six titles from three of his song collections: Composed or printed for the first time between 1890 and 1898 these songs are a representative selection from MacDowell's important middle creative period and without doubt a valuable addition to the song repertoire.