The Developing Classical Singer: Songs by British and American Composers - Soprano

(Boosey & Hawkes Voice) . The selection of songs has been carefully considered to represent a variety of composers from primarily the twentieth century. Songs were chosen that are appropriate challenges to the advancing teenage singer, or for the university student. DOMINICK ARGENTO: Dirge * DOMINICK ARGENTO: Spring * LEONARD BERNSTEIN: I hate music! * LEONARD BERNSTEIN: Jupiter has seven moons * FRANK BRIDGE: Love went a-riding * BENJAMIN BRITTEN: Come you not from Newcastle? * BENJAMIN BRITTEN: Early one morning * BENJAMIN BRITTEN: O Waly, Waly * AARON COPLAND: The Little Horses * AARON COPLAND: Simple Gifts * AARON COPLAND: Why do they shut me out of Heaven? * JOHN DUKE: Central Park at Dusk * GERALD FINZI: Oh fair to see * RICHARD HUNDLEY: When children are playing on the green * JOHN IRELAND: Spring Sorrow * C. HUBERT H. PARRY: A Spring Song * HENRY PURCELL (realizations by Benjamin Britten) : I attempt from love's sickness * HENRY PURCELL (realizations by Benjamin Britten) : If music be the food of love (1st version) * ROGER QUILTER: Dream Valley * ROGER QUILTER: Love's Philosophy * ROGER QUILTER: Weep you no more * NED ROREM: Little Elegy * NED ROREM: Love * CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD: A Lullaby * RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Bright is the ring of words * RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Linden Lea * RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The sky above the roof