15 Easy Folksong Arrangements (Songbook)

Author: Hal Leonard Corp.
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1480321087
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 163

Book Description
(Vocal Collection). This collection is designed for those students, of any age beyond early teens, in the early stages of voice study, although the arrangements are so satisfying that more advanced singers will also enjoy them. The ranges are modest, and songs have been chosen for both genders. The new arrangements are lovely, fresh and interesting, but keep the simple vocal line in the forefront. The piano accompaniments were deliberately designed for an intermediate level player. The audio includes beautiful performances of each song by professional singers to be used as a learning tool, and a piano accompaniment track for practice. Joan Boytim, the leading American expert on teaching the young voice, has added a preface about how to use these songs in the studio. Highlights: Barbara Allen * I Gave My Love a Cherry * Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier * Shenandoah * The Streets of Laredo * The Water Is Wide.

The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs

Author: Julia Bishop
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141964324
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 666

Book Description
One of the Spectator's Books of the Year 2012 'Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain For we've received orders for to sail for old England But we hope in a short while to see you again' One of the great English popular art forms, the folk song can be painful, satirical, erotic, dramatic, rueful or funny. They have thrived when sung on a whim to a handful of friends in a pub; they have bewitched generations of English composers who have set them for everything from solo violin to full orchestra; they are sung in concerts, festivals, weddings, funerals and with nobody to hear but the singer. This magical new collection brings together all the classic folk songs as well as many lesser-known discoveries, complete with music and annotations on their original sources and meaning. Published in cooperation with the English Folk Dance and Song Society, it is a worthy successor to Ralph Vaughan Williams and A.L.Lloyd's original Penguin Book of English Folk Songs. 'Her keen eye did glitter like the bright stars by night The robe she was wearing was costly and white Her bare neck was shaded with her long raven hair And they called her pretty Susan, the pride of Kildare' In association with EFDSS, the English Folk Dance and Song Society

English Folk Songs

Author: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141190922
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Book Description
This collection is filled with songs that tell of the pleasures and pains of love, the patterns of the countryside and the lives of ordinary people. Here are unfaithful soldiers, ghostly lovers, whalers on stormy seas, cuckolds and tricksters. By turns funny, plain-speaking and melancholic, these songs evoke a lost world and, with their melodies provided, record a vital musical tradition. Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside � but it has profoundly shaped us too.It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists, writers, musicians and people who live and work on the land � as well as those who are travelling through it.English Journeys celebrates this long tradition with a series of twenty books on all aspects of the countryside, from stargazey pie and country churches, to man�s relationship with nature and songs celebrating the patterns of the countryside (as well as ghosts and love-struck soldiers).

150 Rounds for Singing and Teaching

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781458411426
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Classroom Instructional Resources

Folk Songs for Two

Author: Jay Althouse
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN: 9780882849737
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
Titles: All Through the Night * Amazing Grace * Camptown Races * Cindy * He's Gone Away * Poor Wayfaring Stranger * Scarborough Fair * Shenandoah * Siyahamba * Skye Boat Song * Homeward Bound. Appropriate for any combination of voices, male or female. 64 pages. A Federation Festivals 2020-2024 selection.

Complete Folksong Arrangements

Author: Benjamin Britten
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
This landmark publication includes 52 songs, combining the contents of the seven published books of Britten folksong arrangements in High and Low Voice editions. Some of the songs have never before been transposed. The songs of Volume 6, for voice and guitar, have been transcribed for voice and piano for this edition.

Complete Folksong Arrangements

Author: Benjamin Britten
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes Incorporated
ISBN: 9781423421573
Category : Music
Languages : cy
Pages : 0

Book Description
Classical Vocal Solos

Letters from a Life Volume 3 (1946-1951)

Author: Benjamin Britten
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571279937
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 781

Book Description
The third volume of the annotated selected letters of composer Benjamin Britten covers the years 1946-51, during which he wrote many of his best-known works, founded and developed the English Opera Group and the Aldeburgh Festival, and toured widely in Europe and the United States as a pianist and conductor.Correspondents include librettists Ronald Duncan (The Rape of Lucretia), Eric Crozier (Albert Herring, Saint Nicolas, The Little Sweep) and E. M. Forster (Billy Budd); conductor Ernest Ansermet and composer Lennox Berkeley; publishers Ralph Hawkes and Erwin Stein of Boosey & Hawkes; and the celebrated tenor Peter Pears, Britten's partner. Among friends in the United States are Christopher Isherwood, Elizabeth Mayer and Aaron Copland, and there is a significant meeting with Igor Stravinsky.This often startling and innovative period is vividly evoked by the comprehensive and scholarly annotations, which offer a wide range of detailed information fascinating for both the Britten specialist and the general reader.Donald Mitchell contributes a challenging introduction exploring the interaction of life and work in Britten's creativity, and an essay examining for the first time, through their correspondence, the complex relationship between the composer and the writer Edward Sackville-West.

10 Selected Songs

Author: Ned Rorem
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 42

Book Description
(Boosey & Hawkes Voice). Ned Rorem (born 1923) is one of the most accomplished and prolific of American art song composers. This selection of songs is suitable for student singers. Contents list is the same for High and Medium/Low Voice editions. Contents: Ferry me across the water * Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair * A Journey * Little Elegy * Look down, fair moon * Love * Nantucket * The Nightingale * O Do Not Love Too Long * Poem for F.

The Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams

Author: Alain Frogley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521197686
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 361

Book Description
A comprehensive reassessment of this towering figure of twentieth-century music, examining works, cultural context and reception in Britain and beyond.