The ABRSM Songbook, Book 4

 Grade: Intermediate

The five-volume ABRSM Songbook series offers singers and their teachers an unrivalled choice of core repertoire that will provide the bedrock for many years of rewarding vocal study. The series features:

• Over 100 art songs, drawn from Grades 1–5 of the Associated Board’s Singing syllabus
• A massive range of repertoire from the Medieval to modern musicals – many in practical new editions
• Irresistible new arrangements by Carol Barratt of 18 classic songs
• A rich collection of 60 authentic unaccompanied traditional songs, sourced from around the world
• English singing translations for every non-English-language song – many newly-commissioned
• Useful notes on the songs containing background information and performance suggestions
• CDs of piano accompaniments to all the art songs, performed by Simon Lepper, as well as recordings of the text to every song, performed by native speakers

Contents of Book 4:    

• Ralph Vaughan Williams A Cradle Song
• A mi házunk eleje
• Benjamin Britten A New Year Carol
• Christopher Le Fleming A Smuggler’s Song
• Black is the colour
• Thomas Arne Blow, blow, thou winter wind
• Bunclody
• Richard Rodney Bennett Clock-a-clay
• Lionel Bart Consider yourself
• Robert Schumann Die Waise
• arr. Carol Barratt Down by the salley gardens
• El galán incógnito
• arr. Carol Barratt Fy nghalon
• Greenland Whale Fishery
• Leonard Bernstein I feel pretty
• Jerome Kern Long ago and far away
• arr. Copland Long Time Ago
• Henry Purcell Love quickly is pall’d
• Mak Inang
• Grieg Med en Primula veris
• Mengjiang nü
• A. Scarlatti O cessate di piagarmi from Il Pompeo
• Leonard Bernstein One Hand, One Heart
• Franz Schubert Seligkeit
• She’s like the swallow
• Cecil Cope Shiny
• George Frideric Handel arr. Somervell Silent Worship
• Thomas Ford Since first I saw your face
• The Cage
• The Donside Emigrant’s Farewell
• Elizabeth Poston The Dormouse’s Carol
• The Wings of a Gull
• Ralph Vaughan Williams The Woodcutter’s Song
• Tudora
• Thomas Arne When daisies pied
• Y deryn pur

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Publisher: ABRSM Publishing

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