THE G. SCHIRMER COLLECTION OF AMERICAN ART SONG 50 SONGS BY 29 COMPOSERS
Low Voice
Series: Vocal Collection
Publisher: Schirmer
Format: Softcover
Composer: Various
Editor: Richard Walters
A Good Boy • A Prayer To Saint Catherine • A Slumber Song Of The Madonna • Amor • Animal Passion • At The Well • Blue Monday • Breakfast Song • Calm Is The Night • Christmas At The Cloisters • Debts • Do Not Go, My Love • Evening • Farewell To The House In Bonac • Forever Young • Fort Tryon Park: September • Good Morning Midnight • Grace • I Carry Your Heart • I Love The Dark Hours Of My Being • I Thank All Who Have Loved Me • In A Myrtle Shade • In The Mornin' • Love In The Dictionary • Love Song • Meadow-Larks • Meet Doctor Livermore • Night Wanderers • Odor • On The Seashore Of Endless Worlds • Once Upon A Universe • Orpheus With His Lute • Review • Reward • Serenity • Song To The Witch Of The Cloisters • St. Ita's Vision, Op. 29, No. 3 • Strings In The Earth And Air • The Breath Of A Rose • The Bustle In A House • The Cloak, The Boat, And The Shoes • The Lamb • The Lament Of Ian The Proud • The Monk And His Cat, Op. 29, No. 8 • The Old Man's Song • The Shepherd • The Spring And The Fall • The Swing • The Unicorn • Where The Music Comes From
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.
CONTENTS: 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
Item #: 050485069
UPC: 073999850697
MPN or ISBN: 9780634084355
Size: 12" x 9"
Pages: 240
Stock #: HL50485069