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 5:
- Manning Sherwin A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
- Aberdeen, Scotland
- Franz Schubert An Sylvia
- Bengawan Solo
- Cantilena del ‘Maggio’
- Canto de la trilla
- George Frideric Handel Dove sei?
- Ian Higginson Fear no more the heat o’ the sun
- Alec Rowley From a Railway Carriage
- Henry Martyn
- Peter Cornelius Hirschlein ging im Wald spazieren
- Henry Purcell I attempt from love’s sickness to fly
- Sullivan If doughty deeds
- Morley It was a lover and his lass
- Grieg Jeg elsker Dig
- Dvorák Jsem jako lípa košatá
- Ralph Vaughan Williams Linden Lea
- George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin Love Walked In
- Max Reger Mariä Wiegenlied
- Molihua
- Kurt Weill My Ship
- Noches de luna
- James Nares Rejoice in the Lord
- A. Scarlatti Rugiadose odorose
- arr. Copland Simple Gifts
- Tatties an’ Herrin’
- William Boyce Tell me, lovely shepherd
- Richard Rodney Bennett The Birds’ Lament
- The Blackbird of Avondale
- The Sprig of Thyme
- The Woods of Trugh
- To be a Farmer’s Boy
- Frederick Keel Trade Winds
- Rodrigo Una palomita blanca
- Johannes Brahms Vergebliches Ständchen
- Antonio Vivaldi Vieni, vieni o mio diletto
- Thomas Arne Where the bee sucks
- George Frideric Handel Where’er you walk
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Publisher: ABRSM Publishing
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