Five songs for soprano and piano with texts from The Enlightened Heart, an anthology of spiritual poetry from many countries and disciplines.

Lyrical, direct, and exhibiting a masterful understanding of vocal writing, Carl Vine's secular cantata for soprano and strings, The Tree of Man, is a gift to audience and musicians alike. The 11-minute work, written in 2012 for the Australian Chamber Orchestra and soprano Daniele de Niese, is based on a passage from a novel of the same name by the Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick White. Vine knew White personally (having written music for several of his stage plays in the 1980s), and his setting perfectly complements the simplicity and sincerity of the prose. The music moves in an arc from its quietly insistent beginnings and rhapsodic central section to a haunting conclusion, where the brooding opening returns before evaporating into the air . . .

This work for soprano and string quartet was premiered at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History on the 18th November 2019 by Carola Darwin and the Gildas Quartet. Commissioned by Carola Darwin with funds from Arts Council England, the Ambache Charitable Trust and the RVW Trust, this seven-song cycle sets texts by Walter Deverell (1827-1854) and the museum's three 2016 Poets-in-Residence: John Barnie, Steven Matthews and Kelley Swain. The title is taken from Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.

A set of four short art songs, in French, whose texts come from the back of a cereal box. Seriously, if that wasn't fun enough, each movement is in the style of a French composer: Faure, Ravel, Poulenc, and Debussy. Bohmler's considerable acumen brings a classical yet theatrical flair to this work.

Songlist: Ë Monsieur Faure, Ë Monsieur Ravel, Ë Monsieur Poulenc, A Monsieur Debussy

Miz Inez Sez is a cycle of five songs, for high soprano and piano, to the poetry of Colette Inez. Four of the songs were written in 1996 and one (The Beckoning) in 1998. The work was commission by the ensemble Sequitur. First performed April 28, 2000 at the Miller Theatre, New York City, by Hila Plitmann, soprano and David Del Tredici, piano. Contents: Alive and Taking Names - The Happy Child - Good News! Nilda is Back - The Beckoning - Chateauneuf du Pape, The Pope's Valet Speaks.

Songlist: ALIVE AND TAKING NAMES, HAPPY CHILD, THE, GOOD NEWS! NILDA IS BACK, BECKONING, THE, CHATEAUNEUF DU PAPE, THE POPE'S VALET SPEAKS

Premiered in 2001, the nine songs of this expressive and moving cycle each begin with the line, At the news of your death.

A cycle of five songs composed on the poetry of John Hollander, current poet laureate of Connecticut.

A collection of vocal exercises arranged for Soprano voice, composed by Emile Behnke and Charles W. Pearce.

This book consists of three parts: PART I describes the vocal mechanism and its functions briefly and in simple non-technical language. A general knowledge of the instrument often helps the student to clarify a question of tone production. PART II, forming the major portion of the book, consists of basic, fundamental vocalises carefully selected to develop the specific voices for which the book is written. PART III presents the important elements of diction in the five languages most commonly used in singing: English, Italian, French, German and Spanish.

Songlist: PART I, The Breath System, The Phonating System, The Resonating System, The Articulating System, General Remarks, PART II, Fundamental Exercises, The Turn, The Soprano Registers, Pianissimo Studies, Staccato Studies, Trill Studies, Messa Di Voce, Style, Special Problems, PART III, English, Foreign Language Diction, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Glossary of Musical Terms, Songs for Sopranos, Recordings of Great Singers

This unique package presents a recorded master class with Metropolitan Opera star Evelyn Lear, coaching young sopranos in 9 favorite arias. The book includes interpretive essays, translations for study, and the standard vocal/piano versions of the arias, with extensive coaching comments in the score. Besides the masterclass with Miss Lear, the CD includes a piano accompaniment for practice. Arias are from La bohème, Don Giovanni, Fidelio, Le nozze di Figaro, Roméo et Juliette, Samson and Die Zauberflöte.

Songlist: Let the bright Seraphim from SAMSON (Handel), Mi chiamano Mimì from LA BOHÈME (Puccini), Batti batti, o bel Masetto from DON GIOVANNI (Mozart), Quando men vo from LA BOHÈME (Puccini), Deh vieni, non tardar from LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (Mozart), Vedrai, carino from DON GIOVANNI (Mozart), Ach, ich fühl's from DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE (Mozart), O wär' ich schon mit dir vereint from FIDELIO (Beethoven), Ah! Je veux vivre from ROM...O ET JULIETTE (Gounod)

The Sieber Vocalises: It is important to know why Sieber is so good for the voice. He was a Viennese, Italian-trained voice teacher who knew the importance of vowel alteration and its role in keeping the balance of the registers. The Sieber Vocalises are designed to balance the registers using 8 measure melodies based on the Italian syllables da, me, ni, po, to, la, be. The register balance is achieved in the ingenious way Sieber arranges the syllables. Again, his goal it to allow the space of the open vowels in the closed vowels, and the ring of the closed vowels in the open vowels. Lindquest called these vocalises the 'bridge between vocalizing and singing music'. In my 25 years of teaching, I have never found a singer that the Sieber Vocalises did not help tremendously. 36 Eight-Measure Vocalises for Elementary Teaching for soprano voices

With standard vocal/piano aria editions, plot notes and English translations, and with a CD of full performances and orchestral accompaniments.

Songlist: Piangete Voi?, Regnava nel Silenzio, Le ricchezze ed il grado fastoso, convien partir, Allenta il pie regina, Oh nube! che lieve, Nella pace del mesto riposo

Here is a practical learning tool for church and community orchestras who want to streamline the rehearsal process for preparing Handel's Messiah. New choristers will appreciate the opportunity to learn at their own pace and veteran singers will enjoy an easily accessed refresher course! - Visual Learning DVD - A voice part recorded by professional singer (Soprano, Alto, Tenor or Bass). The notes and words are displayed on the screen and change color in time with the music - all you have to do is join in as if singing a duet to learn your part. - Voice Part Rehearsal Audio CD - In this second step a narrator guides you, telling you when to sing and calling out where you are so that you don't get lost. Rehearse using your vocal score (available separately) and you will soon know the words and be singing the right notes. - Chorus Backing Track CD - Put what you've learned into practice with the third step, the Chorus Backing Track CD. Listen for your part and sing along with the choir and background music - it's like singing with a real choir.

A series of carefully graded progressive exercises to improve singing technique, for both solo singers and choirs. Includes exercises focussing on breathing and breath control, the production of vowel-sounds and consonants, good singing technique, and ear-training.

Songlist: Voice Placing Exercises for Loose Throat, Forward Tone and Resonance, Tongue Loosening Exercises, Sustained Notes, Attack, Flexibility and Rhythm, Voice Placing Exercises, Sustained Notes, Breath Pressure Variation, Attack and Staccato, Flexibility and Rhythm, Voice Placing Exercises, Flexibility, Major Scales and Arpeggi, Attack, Staccato, and Legato, Minor Scales, Breath Pressure Variations, Range Extension and Ear Training, Single Vowel-Sounds, Compound Vowel-Sounds, Consonants, Breath Pressure Variations

A collection of pieces for Soprano or Alto, composed by George Frideric Handel.

Contains twenty of Bizet's best-known songs in French text. Is also available for Mezzo Soprano or Baritone (Item #K06832).

10 arias: Amelia al ballo: Vola intanto l'ora insonne - The Consul: The Foreign Woman's Aria - To this we've come - The Labyrinth: The Bride's Song - The Medium: The Black Swan; Monica's Waltz - The Old Maid and the Thief: Steal me, sweet thief - The Saint of Bleecker Street: Oh sweet Jesus; Be good to her - The Telephone: Hello! Oh, Margaret, it's you.

Songlist: The Black Swan, Be Good To Her, The Foreign Woman's Aria, Steal Me, Sweet Thief, Vola Intanto L'ora In Sonne, Hello! Oh, Margaret, It's You, Monica's Waltz, To This We've Come, The Bride's Song, Oh, Sweet Jesus

Giovanni Battista Lamperti was a highly-regarded Italian singing teacher who was considered to one of the best of his era. Many of Giovanni's students became international opera stars. These vocalises are designed to prepare the soprano voice for performance. "I recommend the daily use of these Exercises, particularly to Soprano and Mezzo-soprano singing a melodramatic repertory; because exercises of this kind promote length of respiration, and delay the deterioration and undue vibration (tremolo) of the voice. Beginners should confine themselves to a regularly limited range, so as not to weaken the medium of the voice and should extend their compass according to individual progress and development." - G.B. Lamperti

The poetry of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) is especially appealing due to the wide range of topics, diversity of mood and peculiar imagination of the poet. The writings are reflective, passionate, witty, sensuous, observant and ridiculously humorous. Her heart soars. Her mind pokes fun! Emily was truly a New Englander. Her poems are understated and compact. Her love of Nature focuses on small things- birds, bees, meadows and a pond.

In creating the musical settings, the composer (herself a New Englander) endeavored to capture the spirit of the poetry, and of the poet, with songs diverse in style, and concise in form. Everything from romance to frogs is explored, briefly.

Great delight is taken in creating musical translations of the colorful imagery: the letters floating off on the breeze ("My Letter to the World"); the shimmering moonlight ("The Moon and the Sea"); a frog croaking in a bog ("The Frog in the Bog"); hopeful birds hopping about ("Hope" with Feathers"); the boat of passion riding the waves and then settling into its mooring ("Passion"); the ship's cannon firing in celebration ("Joy"); and the tiniest, lightest gifts of Nature ("All I Have to Bring").

These are the poet's Letters to the World. She lived as a recluse, yet her words took flight-traveling the universe as messengers of the soul.
Duration: 14'00"

A collection of songs based upon the writings of Will Cather and Carl Sandburg. Originally conceived as a set, but pieces may also used individually. The Sandberg texts which connect the Cather poems are all excerpted from the poem "Prairie." The music and the Sandburg writing is personal, narrative and expressive and contrasts with Cather's style of descriptive imagery.

Songlist: Prairie, Going Home, Prairie, Prairie Dawn, Prairie, Prairie Spring

A fifteen-minute song cycle for soprano and piano, which was first performed on 8 September 2007 at the European Music Festival, Stuttgart by Diana Damrau (soprano) and Matthias Lademann (piano). Both the music and the text are by Iain Bell.

In this cycle, Raminsh explores the relationship between mother and child. Includes vocal texts and notes on the songs.

An amazing collection of witty and romantic songs from the hit RCA Victor recording featuring Renee Fleming, Sylvia McNair, Frederica von Stade, Jennifer Larmore and Carol Vaness. All songs are in their original keys.

Songlist: I SHALL NOT LIVE IN VAIN, AS WELL AS JESUS?, IF YOU WERE COMMING IN THE FALL, IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE ABROAD, AT LAST, TO BE IDENTIFIED!, CREATION, ANIMAL PASSION, ALAS! ALACK!, INDIAN SUMMER - BLUE, JOY ALONE (CONNECTION), MY NAME, EVEN, GOOD, LISTEN, SNAKE, WOE TO MAN, THE WOUND, THE FARM

This series was designed to supplement traditional vocal instruction and works perfectly as preparatory literature. Each piece is in English and has a limited vocal range, perfect for the beginning singer as well as a piano accompaniment that is playable by a student pianist. The pieces include art songs, folksongs, humorous songs, and suitable vintage popular songs and are all appropriate for contest solos. The accompanying CD includes professionally-recorded accompaniments.

Songlist: Alice Blue Gown, April Showers, Butterflies, Cradle Song, Evening Prayer from Hansel and Gretel, The False Prophet, Florian's Song, Golden Slumbers, It Was A Lover and His Lass, Ladybird, The Lilac Tree, The Little Sandman, My Little Heart, The Nightingale, Oh, Dear! What Can the Matter Be?, Oh, Pretty Birds, The Rosebush, The Sweetest Flower That Blows, Two Marionettes, The Willow Song, The Willow Tree, The Winter It Is Past

Lovers, Lasses and Spring complements The First Book of Soprano Solos and The First Book of Soprano Solos Part II. It is a selection of beginning coloratura songs, to be used to teach vocal agility, and comes with an accompaniment CD. The songs are all in English, and the ranges tend to explore the higher end of the soprano voice, using melismas and scale passages within a moderately florid style of singing. The style of music in Lovers, Lasses and Spring permits a freedom of singing that allows the voice to soar, something that sopranos really enjoy at this stage of development.

Songlist: Be Still, Blackbird, Charming Chloe, Cherry Ripe, A Heart That's Free, It A Lover And His Lass, The Kerry Dance, The Lass With The Delicate Air, The Little Damozel, The Little Shepard's Song, Love's A Merchant, The Piper Of Love, The Smile Of Spring, When Love Is Lind, Woodland Voices

This is among the most widely used teaching repertoire for singers in the U.S. Over 30 songs in each book, including American and British art songs, folk song arrangements, sacred songs and a sampling of beginning songs in German, Italian, Spanish and French. There is a completely different song selection for each voice type.

Songlist: Lullaby, The Beatitudes (Malotte), Bel piacere (Handel), The Crucifixion, Bonne Nuit (Massenet), El Majo Discreto (Granados), Et tra la la y el punteado (Granados), Everywhere I Look (Carew), The Green Dog (Kingsley), Have You Seen But A White Lily Grow?, Hear My Cry, O God (Franck), Heffle Cuckoo Fair (Shaw), I Love All Graceful Things (Thiman), Into the Night (Edwards), The K'e (Dougherty), Let My Song Fill Your Heart (Charles), Let Us Dance, Let Us Sing (Purcell), Lied Der Mignon (Schubert), A Little China Figure (Leoni), Little Elegy (Duke), Love has eyes (Bishop), The Mermaid's Song, Minnelied (Mendelssohn), My Johann (Grieg), Night Is Falling (Haydn), O Peace, Thou Fairest Child of Heaven (Arne), Oh, What A Beautiful City, Piercing Eyes (Haydn), Rose Softly Blooming (Spohr), Si Mes Vers Avaient Des Ailes, and more

More great teaching material at the same level as the first volume. Over 30 songs in each volume with no song duplicated between voice types. A student could easily begin either in The First Book or The First Book Part II, or the books may be used concurrently.

Songlist: Andenken (I Think of Thee) (Beethoven), Ave Maria (O Lord, Most Holy) (Abt), Charmant Papillon (Charming Butterfly) (Campra), Come And Trip It (Handel), Come To The Fair (Martin), Drift Down, Drift Down (Ronald), Grandma (Chanler), Animal Crackers (Hageman), Here Amid the Shady Woods (Handel), How Lovely Are Thy Dwellings (Liddle), Lachen und Weinen (Laughing and Crying) (Schubert), The Last Rose of Summer (Miliken/Flotow), La Pastorella (Shepherd Maid) (Schubert), Per Non Penar (For My Heart's Peace) D'astorga, Petit Noël (Little Noel) (Louis), Quella Barbara Catena (This Hard Bondage) (Ciampi), Romance (Debussy), A Spirit Flower (Campbell-Tipton), When I Was Seventeen (Swedish Folksong), Orpheus With His Lute, Gesù Bambino (The Infant Jesus), When Daisies Pied (Arne), Solvejg's Song (Grieg), None But The Lonely Heart (Nur Wer Die Sehnsucht Kennt), Op. 6, O Saviour, Hear Me! (Gluck), To A Wild Rose, The Crying of Water (Campbell-Tipton), Intorno All'idol Mio, A Nun Takes the Veil (Barber), Bliss (Schubert), and more

Step up to the next level with more student repertoire, continuing from The First Book of Solos and The First Book of Solos - Part II. The more than 30 songs in each book require a little more vocal range and musical sophistication, but are still decidedly student material.

Songlist: Les cloches, Die Nacht, The Sun, Whose Rays Are All Ablaze, Down In The Forest, Hark! The Echoing Air, Love's Philosophy, Un Moto Di Gioja, My Heart Is Like A Singing Bird, A Pastoral, Shepherd! Thy Demeanour Vary, Sleep, Gentle Cherub, Sleep Descend, Song Of The Blackbird, A Spring Morning, The Sun Shall Be No More Thy Light, To The Birds (A des Oiseaux), Villanelle (I Saw The Swift Swallow Flying), Vieille Chanson, My Heart Ever Faithful, Hear My Prayer, O Lord, O Divine Redeemer (Repentir), Oh! Had I Jubal's Lyre (Handel), Take O Take Those Lips(Beach Hha, La Zingara (Donizetti), Das Verlassene Magdlein(Maid Fo), Bescheidebne Liebe (Wolf), Vergebliches Standchen (Brahms), These Are They Which Came(Gaul), Fiocca La Neve(Snow) (Cimara), Art Is Calling For Me

This is among the most widely used teaching repertoire for singers in the U.S. Over 30 songs in each book, including American and British art songs, folk song arrangements, sacred songs and a sampling of beginning songs in German, Italian, Spanish and French. There is a completely different song selection for each voice type.

Songlist: Lullaby, The Beatitudes (Malotte), Bel piacere (Handel), The Crucifixion, Bonne Nuit (Massenet), El Majo Discreto (Granados), Et tra la la y el punteado (Granados), Everywhere I Look (Carew), The Green Dog (Kingsley), Have You Seen But A White Lily Grow?, Hear My Cry, O God (Franck), Heffle Cuckoo Fair (Shaw), I Love All Graceful Things (Thiman), Into the Night (Edwards), The K'e (Dougherty), Let My Song Fill Your Heart (Charles), Let Us Dance, Let Us Sing (Purcell), Lied Der Mignon (Schubert), A Little China Figure (Leoni), Little Elegy (Duke), Love has eyes (Bishop), The Mermaid's Song, Minnelied (Mendelssohn), My Johann (Grieg), Night Is Falling (Haydn), O Peace, Thou Fairest Child of Heaven (Arne), Oh, What A Beautiful City, Piercing Eyes (Haydn), Rose Softly Blooming (Spohr), Si Mes Vers Avaient Des Ailes, and more

More great teaching material at the same level as the first volume. Over 30 songs in each volume with no song duplicated between voice types. A student could easily begin either in The First Book or The First Book Part II, or the books may be used concurrently. Book includes access to online recordings of piano accompaniments for each piece.

Songlist: Andenken (I Think of Thee) (Beethoven), Ave Maria (O Lord, Most Holy) (Abt), Charmant Papillon (Charming Butterfly) (Campra), Come And Trip It (Handel), Come To The Fair (Martin), Drift Down, Drift Down (Ronald), Grandma (Chanler), Animal Crackers (Hageman), Here Amid the Shady Woods (Handel), How Lovely Are Thy Dwellings (Liddle), Lachen und Weinen (Laughing and Crying) (Schubert), The Last Rose of Summer (Miliken/Flotow), La Pastorella (Shepherd Maid) (Schubert), Per Non Penar (For My Heart's Peace) D'astorga, Petit Noël (Little Noel) (Louis), Quella Barbara Catena (This Hard Bondage) (Ciampi), Romance (Debussy), A Spirit Flower (Campbell-Tipton), When I Was Seventeen (Swedish Folksong), Orpheus With His Lute, Gesù Bambino (The Infant Jesus), When Daisies Pied (Arne), Solvejg's Song (Grieg), None But The Lonely Heart (Nur Wer Die Sehnsucht Kennt), Op. 6, O Saviour, Hear Me! (Gluck), To A Wild Rose, The Crying of Water (Campbell-Tipton), Intorno All'idol Mio, A Nun Takes the Veil (Barber), Bliss (Schubert), and more

Step up to the next level with more student repertoire, continuing from The First Book of Solos and The First Book of Solos - Part II. The more than 30 songs in each book require a little more vocal range and musical sophistication, but are still decidedly student material.

Songlist: Les cloches, Die Nacht, The Sun, Whose Rays Are All Ablaze, Down In The Forest, Hark! The Echoing Air, Love's Philosophy, Un Moto Di Gioja, My Heart Is Like A Singing Bird, A Pastoral, Shepherd! Thy Demeanour Vary, Sleep, Gentle Cherub, Sleep Descend, Song Of The Blackbird, A Spring Morning, The Sun Shall Be No More Thy Light, To The Birds (A des Oiseaux), Villanelle (I Saw The Swift Swallow Flying), Vieille Chanson, My Heart Ever Faithful, Hear My Prayer, O Lord, O Divine Redeemer (Repentir), Oh! Had I Jubal's Lyre (Handel), Take O Take Those Lips(Beach Hha, La Zingara (Donizetti), Das Verlassene Magdlein(Maid Fo), Bescheidebne Liebe (Wolf), Vergebliches Standchen (Brahms), These Are They Which Came(Gaul), Fiocca La Neve(Snow) (Cimara), Art Is Calling For Me

More great classical material for progressing vocal students, from the leading American expert in teaching the young voice. The series started with The First Book of Solos, and then, at the same difficulty level, came The First Book of Solos - Part II. The Second Book of Solos, originally released in 1993, is for singers who have taken voice a little longer and are capable of more challenges, but is still decidedly student-level material, and music that can be sung by good high school students. The new The Second Book of Solos - Part II set is at exactly the same level as The Second Book of Solos. It shares the same features: a deliberate variety of music in different styles and languages, including a few sacred selections, with over 30 songs per book. Available as books only, or in packs with two CDs of piano accompaniments recorded by Laura Ward.

Songlist: Love Is a Plaintive Song from PATIENCE (A. Sullivan), Sorry Her Lot Who Loves Too Well from HMS PINAFORE (A. Sullivan), Als Luise die Briefe ihres ungetreuen (Mozart), Après un reve (G. Fauré), Alleluja from EXSULTATE, JUBILATE (W.A. Mozart), La belle au bois dormant (F. Fourdrain), The Bird (J. Duke), Care selve (G.F. Handel), Chanson norvégienne (F. Fourdrain), Clavelitos (J. Valverde), Crabbed age and youth (C.H.H. Parry), Domine Deus from GLORIA (A. Vivaldi), The fields are full (C.A. Gibbs), I mourn as a dove from ST. PETER (J. Benedict), Il mio ben quando verrà (G. Paisiello), J'ai pleuré en reve (G. Hüe), The Lord's name is praised (M. Greene), Mandoline (Fauré), Mausfallen-Sprüchlein (H. Wolf), Mondnacht (R. Schumann), My Sweetheart and I (A. Beach), Niemand hat's geseh'n (J.K.G. Loewe), Non ti fidar from MUZIO SCEVOLA (G.F. Handel), Quel ruscelletto (P.D. Paradies), Le rossignol des lilas (R. Hahn), Spring (I. Gurney), Ständchen (J. Brahms), Sure on this shining night (S. Barber), That's Life (J.P. Sacco), Think on These Things (J.C. Kirlin), and more

More great classical material for progressing vocal students, from the leading American expert in teaching the young voice. The series started with The First Book of Solos, and then, at the same difficulty level, came The First Book of Solos - Part II. The Second Book of Solos, originally released in 1993, is for singers who have taken voice a little longer and are capable of more challenges, but is still decidedly student-level material, and music that can be sung by good high school students. The new The Second Book of Solos - Part II set is at exactly the same level as The Second Book of Solos. It shares the same features: a deliberate variety of music in different styles and languages, including a few sacred selections, with over 30 songs per book. Available as books only, or in packs with two CDs of piano accompaniments recorded by Laura Ward.

Songlist: Love Is a Plaintive Song from PATIENCE (A. Sullivan), Sorry Her Lot Who Loves Too Well from HMS PINAFORE (A. Sullivan), Als Luise die Briefe ihres ungetreuen (Mozart), Après un reve (G. Fauré), Alleluja from EXSULTATE, JUBILATE (W.A. Mozart), La belle au bois dormant (F. Fourdrain), The Bird (J. Duke), Care selve (G.F. Handel), Chanson norvégienne (F. Fourdrain), Clavelitos (J. Valverde), Crabbed age and youth (C.H.H. Parry), Domine Deus from GLORIA (A. Vivaldi), The fields are full (C.A. Gibbs), I mourn as a dove from ST. PETER (J. Benedict), Il mio ben quando verrà (G. Paisiello), J'ai pleuré en reve (G. Hüe), The Lord's name is praised (M. Greene), Mandoline (Fauré), Mausfallen-Sprüchlein (H. Wolf), Mondnacht (R. Schumann), My Sweetheart and I (A. Beach), Niemand hat's geseh'n (J.K.G. Loewe), Non ti fidar from MUZIO SCEVOLA (G.F. Handel), Quel ruscelletto (P.D. Paradies), Le rossignol des lilas (R. Hahn), Spring (I. Gurney), Ständchen (J. Brahms), Sure on this shining night (S. Barber), That's Life (J.P. Sacco), Think on These Things (J.C. Kirlin), and more

Even more great solos for high school and college singers at the same level as The First Book of Solos and The First Book of Solos - Part II, with a variety of over 30 classical songs per volume, and a completely different song list for each voice type.

Songlist: Ridente la calma (W.A. Mozart), Art thou troubled? (G.F. Handel), Bind' auf dein Haar (F.J. Haydn), Bluebird (R. Schirmer), Brown Bird Singing, A (H. Wood), For my soul thirsteth for God from PSALM 42 (F. Mendelssohn), The Green Cathedral (C. Hahn), I will lay me down in peace (M. Greene), I will sing of Thy great mercies from ST. PAUL (F. Mendelssohn), In meinem Garten die Nelken (R. Franz), Love Among the Daffodils (E. Coates), Maman, dites-moi (J.B. Weckerlin), May-Day Carol (English Folksong, arr. Taylor), Merry Widow Waltz, The (F. Lehár, arr. Higgs), Mother Sorrow (E. Grieg), Il neige (H. Bemberg), Nuit d'étoiles (C. Debussy), Pool of Quietness, The (T.V. Cator), Praise (G. Dyson), Sandmann, Der (R. Schumann), Se meritar potessi (D. Bruni), Sound the Flute! (C. Dougherty), Spleen (Poldowski), Star vicino (S. Rosa), Sur la terrasse de Saint Germain (F. Fourdrain), Time for Making Songs Has Come, The (J.H. Rogers), To a Little Child (C. Edwards), Under the greenwood tree (T.A. Arne), La vezzosa pastorella (D. Bruni), Vilia from THE MERRY WIDOW (F. Lehár, arr. Higgs), and more

Even more great solos for high school and college singers at the same level as The First Book of Solos and The First Book of Solos - Part II, with a variety of over 30 classical songs per volume, and a completely different song list for each voice type.

Songlist: Bluebird, The Pool Of Quietness, To A Little Child, When Jesus Walked On Galilee, Sound The Flute (Dougherty)

This series now has a new Part II for each voice type, at the same level as the original volumes. This is preparatory material for The First Book of Solos series, with modest ranges and all songs in English, including very easy art songs, folksong arrangements and vintage popular songs. The song selection is completely different for each voice type with 18-20 songs per volume. Includes recorded piano accompaniments available online for download or streaming. Contents: April (Quilter) Because (d'Hardelot) The Bells of St. Mary's (Adams) Cradle Song (De Koven) By the Waters of Minnetonka (Lieurance) Fairy Lullaby (Beach) From the Land of Sky-blue Water (Cadman) Glow Worm (Lincke) He Stole My Tender Heart Away (Endicott) Hedge-Roses (Schubert) A Little Bit of Heaven (Brennan) In the Woods (Franz) A Kiss in the Dark (Herbert) The Little Red Lark (arr. Fisher) One Spring Morning (Nevin) The Rose Has Charmed the Nightingale (Rimsky-Korsakov) Song of Love (Romberg) Stars with Golden Sandals (Franz) Trees (Rasbach) Wake Up! (Phillips)

Songlist: Little Bit of Heaven, A (Brennan), April (Quilter), Because (d'Hardelot), Bells of St. Mary's, The (Adams), Cradle Song (De Koven), By the Waters of Minnetonka (Lieurance), Fairy Lullaby (Beach), From the Land of Sky-blue Water (Cadman), Glow Worm (Lincke), He Stole My Tender Heart Away (Endicott), Hedge-Roses (Schubert), In the Woods (Franz), Kiss in the Dark, A (Herbert), Little Red Lark, The (Irish Air), One Spring Morning (Nevin), Rose Has Charmed the Nightingale, The (Rimsky-Korsakov), Song of Love (Romberg), Stars with Golden Sandals (Franz), Trees (Rasbach), Wake Up! (Phillips)

A collection of cantatas, composed by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Titles: Auch mit gedämpften, schwachen Stimmen * Die Armen will der Herr umarmen * Es halt es mit der blinden Welt * Gerechter Gott, ach, rechnest du? * Gott versorget alles leben * Höchster was ich habe * Hört ihr augen auf zu weinen * Ich bin vergnügt in meinem leiden * Ich ende behende mein irdisches leben * Ich nehme mein leiden mit freuden auf mich * Ich will auf den herren schaun * Seufzer tränen kummer not.

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John Conahan's art songs are unique expressions that enable us to understand and explore many things simultaneously. In this collection, you will find settings of texts that speak genuinely to express our shared thoughts and questions, expressing in song why a particular poet's work may mirror our own tragedies and triumphs.

Songlist: The Warm Deeps of the Sky, The Gift, Amor mundi, Song, Any Woman, Daisy Time, Life and Art, Myriad Flowers of Spring, Sunset

Cycle of 6 songs. Simple Daylight was commissioned by Lincoln Center and dedicated to its first singer, Dawn Upshaw. The music is set to poems in Michael Fried's To the Center of the Earth, creating a song cycle that requires a motet-like partnership between singer and pianist. Recorded on Elektra Nonesuch.

John Tavener's 1984 work A Mini Song-Cycle for Gina was written for Gina Cowen, who gave the first performance along with Judith Ginsburg at St John's Church, Ladbroke Grove, London, on April 3, 1986. Text by W.B. Yeats.

A collection of 10 short songs on children's poetry by the great English poet, Walter de la Mare. One of Juliana Hall's earliest compositions, it was written in 1989 during her year as a Guggenheim Fellow. Many of the poems come from de la Mare's wonderful poetry collection "Peacock Pie" (from which the 20 songs of Hall's tenor song collection "Peacock Pie" are also taken). These poems are, by turns, fanciful, charming, humorous, endearing, ghostly, and mysterious, all seen through a child's gentle innocence and a child's awareness of detail and changing emotion and color. Suitable for soprano or mezzo soprano, singers will enjoy the purity of expression and the directness of sentiment offered by de la Mare's richly drawn poetic characters and Hall's magical settings of these poetry classics.

Songlist: Daybreak, Away We GO, Double Dutch, The Spotted Flycatcher, The Ride-by-Nights, Company, Alas, Alack!, Hide and Seek, Silly Sallie, A Song of Enchantment

Composed as a commemorative work exploring themes of loss, particularly remembering the children who perished in the Aberfan tragedy in 1966 which buried a school full of children. Written in two very distinct sections with the first dealing with the tragedy and the second moving from darkness to light, this is ultimately a celebration of childhood.

Defining a singer's voice type is one of the most difficult and important challenges facing today's voice instructor. This volume provides ten worthy selections appropriate for young sopranos and mezzo-sopranos that fall between these voice types, which are perfect for helping to discover a singer's eventual vocal classification. Historical information, range, teaching tips, and translations of the foreign-language pieces expertly guide the teacher and student through each piece.Lynn Eustis, soprano, is associate professor of voice at the University of North Texas and appears regularly as a soloist with numerous professional organizations. She earned a doctor of music in opera from Florida State University, a master of music in opera from the Curtis Institute of Music, and a bachelor of music in voice from Bucknell University.

Songlist: lascia ch'io pianga, Sailor's Song, The Fatal Hour, Abendstern, Warum willst du And're fragen?, Anzoleta avanti la regata, Le papillon et la fleur, Hai Luli!, In the Highlands, The Stranger Man

Bordogni made his operatic debut at La Scala, Milan in 1813 in Rossini's Tancredi, and became very active in promoting that composer's music. He appeared in many of Rossini's operas and later became one of the leading teacher of singing and became a teacher at the Paris Conservatoire.

Mathilde Marchesi was a mezzo-soprano, teacher of singing, and exponent of the bel canto technique. She was an advocate of a naturalistic style of singing: she called for a fairly instinctive method of breathing and was particularly concerned with vocal registration, calling it "the Alpha and Omega of the formation and development of the female voice, the touchstone of all singing methods".

This book is a collection of elementary exercises of progressive difficulty. 102 exervises for the mechanism of the Soprano and Mezzo Soprano voice and 12 for the execution. It comes complete with instruction and tips on how to execute them properly.

Sixteen songs and seven arias for high voice and Piano, composed over a fifteen-year period from 1989 to 2004, with texts in English, French, German and translations from German, Portuguese and Russian. Texts from the Bible, Shakespeare, Mozart, Rimbaud, Fernando Pessoa and Paul Celan and by living writers Roger Pulvers, Kevin Power, Victoria Hardie and Michael Hastings. While the original text-free version of Life's Chaos appeared as part of the musical accompaniment to Dziga Vertov's Man With A Movie Camera, there are songs from three of his film scores: The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, Prospero's Books and The Diary Of Anne Frank, and from four song cycles: L'Orgie Parisienne, Six Celan Songs, Cycle of Disquietude and Acts Of Beauty. There are arias from two stage operas, Facing Goya and Man and Boy: Dada and a TV opera, Letters, Riddles and Writs.

Songlist: Full Fathom Five, Where The Bee Dances, Songs & Arias For Soprano, Mozart On Mortality, Funeral Canticle, As Noses Move, Before You Can Say, 'Come' And 'Go', Es War Erde In Ihnen, He Sang In A Gentle Voice, I Am An Unusual Thing, I'm Riding On A Tarm, Life's Chaos, Nachtlich Geschurzt, Quand Tes Pieds Ont Danse, Silence Emerges, Things The Artist Must Not Do Today, This Is What I Found Today, Tortured Prisoner, While You Here Do Snoring Lie, You Are My Son, Concertante

These famous methods are now available with a CD of piano accompaniments. In addition, the enhanced CD also includes tempo adjustment software for computer use.

These famous methods are now available with access to online recordings of piano accompaniments for streaming or download.

The vocal methods of Nicola Vaccai (1790-1848) are well known to classical singers and voice teachers around the world. Ricordi was the original publisher of Vaccai.

Learning to sing means beginning an artistic journey full of rich and unexpected experiences. human voices touch hearts in every nation and yet the best singing has qualities that Italy originated and taught the world to admire. Singing can approach a quality of timeless beauty, yet songs preserve for us the feelings of particular times, whether recent or long ago. Singing gives both the singer and the listener a sensation of freedom and heartfelt expression. Vaccai's masterly Method won increasing popularity with time, and was eventually used in conservatories all over the world. Even today it is often used by singing teachers, who consider it a collection of attractive Ariettas, each serving a particular funtion. And it is quite easy material, perfect for the beginning student. This method book is tailored towards Soprano and Tenor voices.

Learning to sing means beginning an artistic journey full of rich and unexpected experiences. human voices touch hearts in every nation and yet the best singing has qualities that Italy originated and taught the world to admire. Singing can approach a quality of timeless beauty, yet songs preserve for us the feelings of particular times, whether recent or long ago. Singing gives both the singer and the listener a sensation of freedom and heartfelt expression. Vaccai's masterly Method won increasing popularity with time, and was eventually used in conservatories all over the world. Even today it is often used by singing teachers, who consider it a collection of attractive Ariettas, each serving a particular funtion. And it is quite easy material, perfect for the beginning student. This method book is tailored towards High Soprano voices.

Based on a poem by García Lorca's beloved Rosalía de Castro, Lúa Descolorida was inspired by Dawn Upshaw's rainbow of a voice. It is a quietly luminous song with a sinuous vocal line full of slow melismas and gently syoncopated phrases over a slowly moving piano part...For a soprano with many colors in her voice and ease in soft, floating singing, this would be a wonderful choice.--Journal of Singing

12 arias as interpreted by the great Renata Tebaldi, indicating tempos, extensive use of portamento, melodic variations, breaths, fermatas, and all nuances. Also includes a biography.

Songlist: L'altra notte in fondo al mare from MEFISTOFELE (Boito), Ebben?... N'andrò lontana from LA WALLY (Catalani), O mio babbino caro from GIANNI SCHICCHI (Puccini), Mi chiamano Mimì from LA BOHÈME (Puccini), In quelle trine morbide from MANON LESCAUT (Puccini), Tu, che di gel sei cinta from TURANDOT (Puccini), Ritorna vincitor from AIDA (Verdi), Canzone del salice e Ave Maria di Desdemona from OTELLO (Verdi), Un bel dì, vedremo from MADAMA BUTTERFLY (Puccini), Vissi d'arte from TOSCA (Puccini), Senza mamma from SUOR ANGELICA (Puccini), Mi chiamano Mimì from LA BOHÈME (Puccini)

A young dramatic soprano should not be forced into a soubrette mold, nor should the soubrette soprano be assigned dramatic tasks. Although all soprano voices have common characteristics, each type has unique features that require a particular approach in teaching. Training Soprano Voices addresses this issue directly by providing a complete and reliable system for training each type of soprano voice. Designed as a practical program for singers, teachers, and voice professionals, it couples historic vocal pedagogy with the latest research on the singing voice. The book emphasizes the special nature of the soprano voice and the proper physiological functioning for vocal proficiency. For each category of voice, Miller supplies a detailed description, recommends appropriate literature, and provides an effective system for voice building, including techniques for breath management, vibratory response, resonance balancing, language articulation, vocal agility, sostenuto, proper vocal registration, and dynamic control. The book concludes with a daily regimen of vocal development for healthy singing and artistic performance. Dozens of technical exercises, vocalization material taken from the performance literature, and numerous anatomical illustrations are included.

Songlist: Catagories of the Female Voice, Registration Events in Female Voices, Making a Beginning, Breath Energy in Singing, The Agility Factor, Resonance in Soprano Voices: Supraglottic Considerations, Nasal Continuants as Assists in Resonance Balancing, Non-Nasal Consonants as Assists in Adjustment of the Resonator Tract, The Sostenuto Factor, Soprano Vocal Registration and Vowel Modification (Aggiustamento), Accomplishing Dynamic Control, The Daily Regimen, The Wedding of Emotion and Skill

This series is an introduction to art song in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Each volume has a different song list, and includes 30 selections in appropriate keys. Beyond art song, each collection includes two carefully chosen opera arias, an oratorio aria, and an operetta aria by Gilbert & Sullivan. Also included are two enhanced CDs, giving you the ability to not only play the accompaniments on both your CD player and computer, but they are also CD-ROMs that are capable of playing the tracks at different tempos and in different keys when played on the computer. This edition is for Sopranos.

Songlist: Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind, Where The Bee Sucks, Come Again Sweet Love, Flow My Tears, The Silver Swan, I Attempt From Love's Sickness, If Music Be The Food Of Love, It Was A Lover And His Lass, Love's Philosophy, Weep You No More, Apres Un Reve, Chanson d'amour, Si Mes Vers Avaient Des Ailes, Plaiser D'amour, Vergebliches Standchen, Wie Melodien Zieht Es Mir, Das Veichen, Du Bist Die Ruh, Gretchen am Spinnrade, Breit' Ober Mein Haupt, L'abbandono, Intorno All'idol mio, Come L'allodoletta, Ridente La Calma, El Majo Discreto, Del Cabello Mas Sutil, Deh Vieni, Non Tardar, Le Nozze Di Fiagaro, O Mio Babbino Caro, Gianni Scicchi, and more

Deep-Sky Objects is a cycle of love songs set in the distant future, exploring intergalactic longing and desire. It is scored for soprano, piano quintet, and pre-recorded electronic sounds. When the piano quintet was in its heyday, the subject that permeated so many of the great Romantic song cycles was that of longing and lost love. Deep-Sky Objects transfers this trope to the outer reaches of the universe In the cycle a woman sings of her lover who is far away in a remote planet in some unspecified star system. At moments she remembers a time when they were together, but mostly she longs for him and stoically imagines that his presence, even so remote, gives her hope: I can live in the world With your love because I know you exist at the end of the black universe The electronics part often references various sounds from space, from pulsars (which are routinely converted into audio signals by astronomers), the signals of made-made satellites, actual audio of the Huygens probe landing on Saturn's moon, Titan, as well as many sounds suggestive of the eerie, remote and unfathomable reaches of deep space. Each of the ten songs is preceded by a short sample, or incipit, which creates micro-compositions based on the title of each song. The text is written specifically for Deep-Sky Objects, by Sarah Manguso.-Sebastian Currier