Description

• Composers: Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), Peter Warlock (1894-1930), Gerald Finzi (1901-1956), Aaron Copland (1900-1990), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), Henry Purcell (1659-1695), Michael Head (1900-1976), John Ireland (1879-1962), Roger Quilter (1877-1953), Ned Rorem (1923-2022), Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989)
• Instrumentation: Piano, Tenor
• Binding:
• ISMN: 9790051934607
• Size: 9.0 x 12.0 inches
• Pages: 88

Description

The selection of songs has been carefully considered to represent a variety of composers from primarily the twentieth century. Songs were chosen that are appropriate challenges to the advancing teenage singer, or for the university student.

• LENNOX BERKELEY: How Love Came in
• BENJAMIN BRITTEN: Master Kilby
• BENJAMIN BRITTEN: O Waly, Waly
• BENJAMIN BRITTEN: The Salley Gardens
• AARON COPLAND: The Boatmen’s Dance
• AARON COPLAND: I bought me a cat
• AARON COPLAND: Long Time Ago
• GERALD FINZI: Oh fair to see
• GERALD FINZI: Since we loved
• MICHAEL HEAD: Money, O!
• JOHN IRELAND: Spring Sorrow
• HENRY PURCELL (realizations by Benjamin Britten): Fairest Isle
• HENRY PURCELL (realizations by Benjamin Britten): I attempt from love’s sickness
• HENRY PURCELL (realizations by Benjamin Britten): I’ll sail upon the Dog-star
• ROGER QUILTER: Barbara Allen
• ROGER QUILTER: O mistress mine
• ROGER QUILTER: Take, O take those lips away
• ROGER QUILTER: Weep you no more
• NED ROREM: Little Elegy
• NED ROREM: The Nightingale
• NED ROREM: Stopping by woods one snowy evening
• RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Bright is the ring of words
• RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Linden Lea
• RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Vagabond
• PETER WARLOCK: As ever I saw