Description
The ABRSM Songbook Book 3 offers singers of a Grade 3 standard and their teachers an unrivalled choice of core repertoire that will provide the bedrock for many years of rewarding vocal study.
Contains sixteen pieces on the ABRSM 2018 Grade 3 syllabus
The Songbook series features:
- Over 100 art songs, drawn from Grades 1–5 of ABRSM’s Singing syllabus
- A massive range of repertoire from the Medieval to modern musicals – many in practical new editions
- Irresistible new arrangements by Carol Barratt of 18 classic songs
- A rich collection of 60 authentic unaccompanied traditional songs, sourced from around the world
- English singing translations for every non-English-language song – many newly-commissioned
- Useful notes on the songs containing background information and performance suggestions
- CDs of piano accompaniments to all the art songs, performed by Simon Lepper, as well as recordings of the text to every song, performed by native speaker
ABRSM Songbook Book 3 contents:
- Ah! how pleasant ’tis to love [Henry Purcell]
- Dalmatian Cradle Song [Anon.]
- Die Bekehrte [Ignaz Brüll]
- God be in my head [Henry Walford Davies]
- Ferry me across the water [Gerald Finzi]
- I’m learning to read [Betty Roe]
- In the garden flowers are growing [Trad.]
- Komm, liebe Zither, komm [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]
- Llwyn Onn [Trad.]
- My House [Leonard Bernstein]
- Minnelied [Franz Schubert]
- ’Orrible Little Blue-Eyes [Betty Roe]
- Sicilian River Song [Anon.]
- Sweet and low [Sir Joseph Barnby]
- The Banks of Allan Water [Trad.]
- The Path to the Moon [Eric Thiman]
- The Owls [Peter Jenkyns]
- The Sunflower [Trad.]
- Wiegenlied [Wilhelm Taubert]
- Windy Nights [Charles Villiers Stanford]
- Aa Ola, Ola, min eigen onge! [Trad.]
- A la nanita nana [Trad.]
- All things are quite silent [Trad.]
- Coasts of Barbary [Trad.]
- Cuckoo [Trad.]
- Fengyang huagu 1 and 2 [Trad.]
- Green Besoms [Trad.]
- Kalevalainen runosävelmä [Trad.]
- Román Castillo [Trad.]
- Seventeen Come Sunday [Trad.]
- Stole mi se oženi [Trad.]
- Sweet Nightingale [Anon. / Trad.]
