(Vocal Collection). An amazing collection of witty and romantic songs from the hit RCA Victor recording featuring Renee Fleming, Sylvia McNair, Frederica von Stade, Jennifer Larmore and Carol Vaness. All songs are in their original keys. Contents: Bedtime Story * Paper Wings * Mitten Smitten * A Route to the Sky * Prologue: Once More to Gloriana * Euclid * The Haughty Snail-King * And Many More.
(Vocal Collection). An amazing collection of witty and romantic songs from the hit RCA Victor recording featuring Renee Fleming, Sylvia McNair, Frederica von Stade, Jennifer Larmore and Carol Vaness. All songs are in their original keys.
Recent American Art Song: A Guide is a reference source devoted to songs with English texts by American composers, written for solo voice and piano. The book focuses exclusively on art song since 1980, a substantial period largely ignored by scholars. This is the first study to examine this repertory in detail, and many of the songs and composers are discussed in print for the first time. Keith E. Clifton has examined approximately 1000 songs by nearly 200 composers. Many songs employ musical idioms well beyond traditional classical styles, including references to jazz, musical theater, rap, and rock & roll, and several songs blur the boundaries between recital and stage works. Organized alphabetically by composer, entries contain complete biographical and bibliographical information, with major works and links to print resources and composer websites when available. In addition, Clifton provides detailed information on the vocal range, musical style, and appropriate voice type for individual songs. The book concludes with a full discography and bibliography, as well as indexes listing the works by poet, song cycle, title, voice type, and level of difficulty.
Taking a leap of faith is one thing, but learning to get up when you fall is a whole other story. After a summer spent with her Aunt Dee in tiny Elsbury, Louisiana, former Chicago princess Libby Gentry traded in her old life for a new one with the southern Casanova, Blaine Crabtree. But just when she thinks things are changing for the better, old girlfriends of Blaine's start coming back into the picture, and not a single one of them are friendly or bad on the eyes. Combine the worry of passing her first semester at St. Joseph Community College and sponsoring her tomboy cousin in cotillion and Libby can barely keep up. It's hard to learn to fly on paper wings. They're flimsy and can easily break. But if Libby can mend a broken heart, hopefully she can learn to fly.
Originally created as a teaching tool, this bibliography has taken on a second life as a research tool for various facets of American art song, including, in this edition, both current and historical discography.
(Vocal Collection). The complete FACES OF LOVE, Books 1-3 combined into one convenient and value-priced edition. Contents I Shall Not Live in Vain from THE FACES OF LOVE As Well as Jesus? from THE FACES OF LOVE If You Were Coming in the Fall from THE FACES OF LOVE It Makes No Difference Abroad from THE FACES OF LOVE At Last, to Be Identified! from THE FACES OF LOVE Creation from NATURAL SELECTION Animal Passion from NATURAL SELECTION Alas! Alack! from NATURAL SELECTION Indian Summer-Blue from NATURAL SELECTION Joy Alone from NATURAL SELECTION My Name from EVE-SONG Even from EVE-SONG Good from EVE-SONG Listen from EVE-SONG Snake from EVE-SONG Woe to Man from EVE-SONG The Wound from EVE-SONG The Farm from EVE-SONG Bedtime Story from PAPER WINGS Paper Wings from PAPER WINGS Mitten Smitten from PAPER WINGS A Route to the Sky from PAPER WINGS Prologue: Once More-to Gloriana from SONGS TO THE MOON Euclid from SONGS TO THE MOON The Haughty Snail-King (What Uncle William Told the Children) from SONGS TO THE MOON What the Rattlesnake Said from SONGS TO THE MOON The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky (What the Little Girl Said) from SONGS TO THE MOON What the Scarecrow Said from SONGS TO THE MOON What the Gray-Winged Fairy Said from SONGS TO THE MOON Yet Gentle Will the Griffin Be (What Grandpa Told the Children) from SONGS TO THE MOON In the Beginning . . . from OF GODS AND CATS Once Upon a Universe from OF GODS AND CATS To Say Before Going to Sleep White in the Moon Dixie Sophie's Song Countertenor's Conundrum from ENCOUNTERTENOR The Trouble with Trebles in Trousers from ENCOUNTERTENOR A Gift to Share from ENCOUNTERTENOR A Learning Experience Over Coffee from ENCOUNTERTENOR You Enter My Thoughts from THOUGHTS UNSPOKEN To Speak of Love from THOUGHTS UNSPOKEN Unspoken Thoughts at Bedtime from THOUGHTS UNSPOKEN What Lips My Lips Have Kissed (with or without cello accompaniment) My True Love Hath My Heart (solo and duet version with or without cello accompaniment) He's Gone Away Barb'ry Allen The Leather-Winged Bat Danny Boy Away in a Manger
In Chamber Music: An Extensive Guide for Listeners,Lucy Miller Murray transforms her decades of program notes for some of the world’s most distinguished artists and presenters into the go-to guide for the chamber music novice and enthusiast. Offering practical information on the broad array of chamber music works from the Classical, Romantic, and Modern periods—and an artful selection from the Baroque period of Johann Sebastian Bach’s works—Chamber Music: An Extensive Guide for Listeners is both the perfect reference resource and chamber music primer for listeners. Covering over 500 works, Murray surveys in clear and simple language the historical and musical impact of some 130 composers—20 of them living. Notably, Chamber Music includes the complete string quartets of Beethoven, Bartok, and Shostakovich, as well as 35 piano trios of Haydn. It also provides critical information and assessments of works by composers not nearly so well known, both past and present. Entries appear in alphabetical order by composer, and, in every instance, give a brief introduction to the composer’s life and work. Of particular interest are the brief spotlight contributions, from well-known figures in the chamber music world, who focus on the performance experience or offer special knowledge of the works. This work is an ideal introduction and reference for students and scholars, new listeners, and enthusiasts of the chamber music tradition in Western music. Special contributors include: ·Charles Abramovic ·James Bonn ·Michael Brown ·Eugene Drucker ·James Dunham ·Daniel Epstein ·Ralph Evans ·Jeremy Gill ·Jake Heggie ·Paul Katz ·Bert Lucarelli ·Stuart Malina ·Robert Martin ·Peter Orth ·Jann Pasler ·Susan Salm ·David Shifrin ·Peter Sirotin/Ya-Ting Chang ·Arnold Steinhardt ·Kenneth Woods ·David Yang Phillip Ying
Annie May Parker, 93, lying near death, is visited by her deceased husband who helps her revisit her life, then teaches her about Heaven and the joys that await.
