Description
The ABRSM Songbook Book 5 offers singers of a Grade 5 standard and their teachers an unrivalled choice of core repertoire that will provide the bedrock for many years of rewarding vocal study.
Contains twenty pieces on the ABRSM 2018 Grade 5 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 5 contents:
- A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square [Manning Sherwin]
- Dove sei? [George Frideric Handel]
- Who is Sylvia? [Franz Schubert]
- From a Railway Carriage [Alec Rowley]
- Fear no more the heat o’ the sun [Ian Higginson]
- I attempt from love’s sickness to fly [Henry Purcell]
- If doughty deeds [Arthur Sullivan]
- It was a lover and his lass [Thomas Morley]
- Jeg elsker Dig [Edvard Grieg]
- Jsem jako lípa košatá [Antonín Dvorák]
- Linden Lea [Ralph Vaughan Williams]
- Hirschlein ging im Wald spazieren [Peter Cornelius]
- Love Walked In [George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin]
- Mariä Wiegenlied [Max Reger]
- My Ship [Kurt Weill / Ira Gershwin]
- Rejoice in the Lord [James Nares]
- Vergebliches Ständchen [Johannes Brahms]
- Rugiadose odorose [Alessandro Scarlatti]
- Simple Gifts [Aaron Copland / Trad.]
- Tell me, lovely shepherd [William Boyce]
- The Birds’ Lament [Richard Rodney Bennett]
- Una palomita blanca [Joaquín Rodrigo]
- Trade Winds [Frederick Keel]
- Vieni, vieni o mio diletto [Antonio Vivaldi]
- Where the bee sucks [Thomas Arne]
- Where’er you walk [George Frideric Handel]
- Bengawan Solo [Trad.]
- Cantilena del ‘Maggio’ [Trad.]
- Canto de la trilla [Trad.]
- Henry Martyn [Trad.]
- Molihua [Trad.]
- Noches de luna [Trad.]
- Tatties an’ Herrin’ [Trad.]
- The Banks of Newfoundland [Trad.]
- The Blackbird of Avondale [Trad.]
- The Sprig of Thyme [Trad.]
- The Woods of Trugh [Trad.]
- To be a Farmer’s Boy [Trad.]
