An Old Italian Love-Song

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.

Born in Ireland and musically trained in Germany Victor Herbert (1859-1924) was America's first great composer for the musical theatre. The creator of more than 40 operettas Herbert produced a series of popular and enduring stage works including Babes in Toyland and Naughty Marietta.This treasury of tuneful favourites reprinted directly from rare editions comprises 37 beloved hits from Herbert's operettas. Selections include The Streets of New York Moonbeams Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! Italian Street Song Toyland Gypsy Love Song and many others. Also featured are four popular piano pieces — March of theToys Al Fresco Dagger Dance and Badinage — plus several rare vintage sheet music covers.Dover Original.

These four volumes contain all of Purcell's secular solo songs not associated with stage productions. Taken from the authoritative Purcell Society Editions, the songs appear in their original keys, and are most suitable for high voice. Introduction in English, French, German and Italian. / Scores

A selection of songs from the musical stage presented in their authentic settings, excerpted from the original vocal scores. Arranged for soprano vocals and piano. / Répertoire d'Examen / Recueil / Voix

This authoritative, new edition of the world's most loved songs and arias draws on original manuscripts, historical first editions and recent research by prominent musicologists to meet a high standard of accuracy and authenticity. Includes fascinating background information about the arias and their composers as well as a singable rhymed translation, a readable prose translation and a literal translation of each single Italian word.

Madrigals by the Renaissance composer Monteverdi provided the inspiration for my own Madrigali. Symbolic images of flames burning and fire recur often in Italian love poems from this era and my cycle on texts employingthis fire motive blends stylistic musical features of the period (word painting modality bold harmonic shifts intricate counterpoint augenmusik etc.) within a contemporary compositional idiom. The music emanates from asingle primal sonority (the “Fire-Chord”) which opens the piece and is found extensively throughout all six movements in myriad forms and manipulations providing motivic unity to complement the poetic. This cycle ofmadrigals has been designated an American Choral Masterpiece by the National Endowment for the Arts.--Morten Lauridsen

Madrigals by the Renaissance composer Monteverdi provided the inspiration for my own Madrigali. Symbolic images of flames burning and fire recur often in Italian love poems from this era and my cycle on texts employingthis fire motive blends stylistic musical features of the period (word painting modality bold harmonic shifts intricate counterpoint augenmusik etc.) within a contemporary compositional idiom. The music emanates from asingle primal sonority (the “Fire-Chord”) which opens the piece and is found extensively throughout all six movements in myriad forms and manipulations providing motivic unity to complement the poetic. This cycle ofmadrigals has been designated an American Choral Masterpiece by the National Endowment for the Arts.--Morten Lauridsen

(Includes 2 CDs)-This is among the most widely used teaching repertoire for singers in the U.S. Over 30 songs are featured in each book including American and British art songs folk song arrangements sacred songs and a sampling of beginningsongs in German Italian Spanish and French. There is a completely different song selection for each voice type. This book includes access to online audio.