The G. Schirmer Collection of American Art Song (HIgh voice)
Beschrijving
50 Songs by 29 Composers
This comprehensive collection is the best one-volume source available on the topic, with a mix of familiar recital standards and intriguing material awaiting discovery. Includes composers from c. 1900 into the 21st century. Some songs make their first published appearance in American Art Song: Gian Carlo Menotti's moving "The Old Man's Song," Michael Tilson Thomas' inspired "Grace," dedicated to Leonard Bernstein, and Aaron Jay Kernis' "A Good Boy," as well a boogie-woogie art song by the editor, "Blue Monday." The same songs appear in High Voice and Medium/Low Voice.
Content:
- BARBER:
- The Monk and His Cat
- Night Wanderers
- St. Ita's Visioon
- A Slumber Song of the Madonna
- Strings in the earth and air
- BEACH:
- Meadow-Larks
- BOLCOM:
- Amor
- The Bustle in a House
- CARPENTER:
- On the seashore of endless worlds
- CHANLER:
- The Lamb
- Meet Doctor Livermore
- CORIGLIANO:
- The Cloisters: Fort Tryon Park: September
- Song to the Witch of the Cloisters
- Christmas at the Cloisters
- The Unicorn
- Forever Young
- DELLO JOIO:
- Farewell to the House in Bonac
- DOUGHERTY:
- Love in the Dictionary
- Review
- DUKE:
- I carry your heart
- GRIFFES:
- In a Myrtle Shade
- The Lament of Ian the Proud
- HAGEMAN:
- At the Well
- Do not go, my love
- HARBISON:
- Breakfast Song
- Odor
- HEGGIE:
- Animal Passion
- Once Upon a Universe
- HOIBY:
- The Shepherd
- Where the Music Comes From
- IVES:
- Evening
- In the mornin'
- Serenity
- KERNIS:
- A Good Boy
- LEKBERG:
- The Spring and the Fall
- MECHEM:
- Debts
- MEHLDAU:
- I love the dark hours of my being
- MENOTTI:
- The Old Man's Song
- The Swing
- MOORE:
- The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes
- NILES:
- Calm is the night
- Reward
- PASATIERI:
- I thank all who have loved me
- PREVIN:
- Good morning midnight
- WILLIAM SCHUMAN:
- Orpheus with his lute
- STILL:
- The Breath of a Rose
- THOMSON:
- Love Song
- A Prayer to Saint Catherine
- TILSON THOMAS:
- Grace
- WALTERS:
- Blue Monday