With companion recordings online-With companion CDs. This outstanding series is an encouragement to beginning singers in preparing a vocal solo. Songs have been carefully chosen for each voice type after consulting many official state contest repertoire lists. All the songs for instance are on the Texas list. The series will be useful to any novice singer not just limited to those preparing an actual contest solo. Each volume contains 10 songs: 5 art songs in English an African-American spiritual 2 songs in Italian a song in German and a song in Spanish. There are new editions and engravings of all songs. Biographical information is included on each composer. Interpretive suggestions are givenfor each song and the preface on Learning a Song is especially instructive. Each companion CD includes beautiful performances of all the songs by a professional singer and excellent accompaniments by pianist Laura Ward. Also on the CD are pronunciation guides in Italian German and Spanish. Soprano Book Contents: Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel · Do Not Go My Love · El tra la la y el punteado · I Attempt from Love's Sickness to Fly · It Was a Lover and His Lass · Lachen und Weinen · Nel cor più non mi sento · Se tu m'ami · Solveig's Song · 'Tis the Last Rose of Summer.

Soprano Book Only-For aspiring and professional singers who love Broadway Alfred's Singer's Library of Musical Theatre presents an elegant collection of the best-loved musical theatre songs in their original keys authentically transcribed from their original vocal scores. Perfect for study and equally suitable for the most important auditions and performances each volume is dedicated to a specific vocal range and contains dozens of songs from a variety of shows that span decades of theatre history. Multiple volumes are available for each of four vocal ranges: Soprano Mezzo-Soprano/Alto Tenor and Baritone/Bass. Authoritative historical and contextual commentary audition tips and 16-barcut suggestions for each song make it the most useful and relevant song library of its kind. Titles include: All for You (Saturday Night) · Autumn (Starting Here Starting Now) · Ballad of Dependency (The Threepenny Opera) · The Boy Friend (The Boy Friend) · Bring on Tomorrow (Fame - The Musical) · Goodbye Little Dream Goodbye (Anything Goes 1988 Revival) · I Speak Six Languages (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) · I'm a Stranger Here Myself (One Touch of Venus) · Jilted (Of Thee I Sing) · Just Imagine (Good News) · A Little Bit in Love (Wonderful Town) · A Little Bit of Good (Chicago) · Long Ago (Half a Sixpense) · Love in a Home (Lil' Abner) · Love Is Sweeping the Country (Of Thee I Sing) · Mira (Carnival) · My Love Is on the Way (The Golden Apple) · My Man's Gone Now (Porgy and Bess) · Once Upon a Dream (Jekyll