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 ABRSM’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 and Reviews
Contents
SHEET MUSIC
- I will walk with my love [Trad.]
- Leanabh an àigh [Trad.]
- Morning has broken [Trad. Scottish]
- Little Boats [Trad.]
- London Birds [Geoffrey Shaw]
- Poco Poppa Pizza and Mama Piccolo [Betty Roe]
- Coconut Man [Aubrey Beswick]
- The Coventry Carol [Anon.]
- The Dark Island [Iain McLachlan]
- The Frog [Nina Perry]
- The Little Spanish Town [Peter Jenkyns]
- The Mallow Fling [Trad.]
- The Mallow Fling [Trad.]
- The Oak and the Ash [Trad.]
- The Oak and the Ash [Trad.]
- The Sweet Nightingale [William Henry Anderson]
- Twilight [Aubrey Beswick]
- Westering home [Trad.]
- Wiegenlied [Bernhard Flies]
- Wiegenlied [Franz Schubert]
- Across the Line [Trad.]
- All Jolly Fellows [Trad.]
- Blomman bland blommorna [Trad.]
- Chili lo [Trad.]
- Come, my lads [Trad.]
- Drozyna [Trad.]
- En roulant ma boule [Trad.]
- Kangding qingge [Trad.]
- Pentozalis [Trad.]
- Perica [Trad.]
- The Forsaken Maiden [Trad.]
- Vse tièice lepo pojo [Trad.]
RECORDINGS
- Coconut Man [Aubrey Beswick] - accompaniment only
- Coconut Man [Aubrey Beswick]
- I will walk with my love [Trad.] - accompaniment only
- I will walk with my love [Trad.]
- Leanabh an àigh [Trad.] - accompaniment only
- Leanabh an àigh [Trad.]
- Morning has broken [Trad. Scottish] - accompaniment only
- Morning has broken [Trad. Scottish]
- Little Boats [Trad.] - accompaniment only
- Little Boats [Trad.]
- London Birds [Geoffrey Shaw] - accompaniment only
- London Birds [Geoffrey Shaw]
- Poco Poppa Pizza and Mama Piccolo [Betty Roe] - accompaniment only
- Poco Poppa Pizza and Mama Piccolo [Betty Roe]
- The Coventry Carol [Anon.] - accompaniment only
- The Coventry Carol [Anon.]
- The Dark Island [Iain McLachlan] - accompaniment only
- The Dark Island [Iain McLachlan]
- The Frog [Nina Perry] - accompaniment only
- The Frog [Nina Perry]
- The Little Spanish Town [Peter Jenkyns] - accompaniment only
- The Little Spanish Town [Peter Jenkyns]
- The Mallow Fling [Trad.] - accompaniment only
- The Mallow Fling [Trad.] - accompaniment only
- The Mallow Fling [Trad.]
- The Oak and the Ash [Trad.] - accompaniment only
- The Oak and the Ash [Trad.] - accompaniment only
- The Oak and the Ash [Trad.]
- The Sweet Nightingale [William Henry Anderson] - accompaniment only
- The Sweet Nightingale [William Henry Anderson]
- Twilight [Aubrey Beswick] - accompaniment only
- Twilight [Aubrey Beswick]
- Westering home [Trad.] - accompaniment only
- Westering home [Trad.]
- Wiegenlied [Bernhard Flies] - accompaniment only
- Wiegenlied [Bernhard Flies]
- Wiegenlied [Franz Schubert] - accompaniment only
- Across the Line [Trad.]
- All Jolly Fellows [Trad.]
- Blomman bland blommorna [Trad.]
- Chili lo [Trad.]
- Come, my lads [Trad.]
- Drozyna [Trad.]
- En roulant ma boule [Trad.]
- Kangding qingge [Trad.]
- Pentozalis [Trad.]
- Perica [Trad.]
- The Forsaken Maiden [Trad.]
- Vse tièice lepo pojo [Trad.]
