In Celebration of the Human Voice - The Essential Musical Instrument

Songbook Series

First Book of Broadway Solos

This excellent series is perfect for the voice student of any age. Songs have been carefully selected to include the easiest beginning material, advancing to some vocal challenges for the progressing singer. Keys have been carefully chosen to meet the needs of most students. This collection of largely American songs may be used to teach the same basic classical tecniques of lyric singing as the traditional European art music repertoire, with rerrific opportunities for interpretive development.

Series Collections

Alto

Joan Frey Boytim: The First Book of Mezzo-Soprano/Alto Solos

Review: 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: Morning, Prayer, The Lord Is My Shepherd, American Lullaby (Rich), Jesus Walked This Lonesome Valley, Silent Noon (Vaughan Williams), The Crucifixion, The Lamb, The Cherry-Tree, Chi Vuol La Zingarella (Paisiello), Christopher Robin Is Saying His Prayers (Fraser-Simson), Cloud-Shadows (Rogers), Crabbed Age And Youth (White), Der Blumenstrauss (Mendelssohn), Der Schwur, and more

Voicing: Alto