Language of Song, The - Advanced

Description

A series of 3 graded songbooks from Faber to help develop the skills required to sing in a foreign language. An invaluable resource for all singing students and teachers. This volume is for advanced level, & is available for either high, medium or low voice + piano accompaniment; contains songs in French, German, Russian (Cyrillic & phonetic alphabets) & Italian. A detailed pronunciation guide is included using the International Phonetic Alphabet. Each song is presented background information & technical & musical teaching points. The accompanying CDs include a full pronunciation guide by native speakers, as well as full recordings of all accompaniments for practice and performance.

Set for ABRSM Examinations 2018 onwards Singing Grade 7 (List B: Bizet - Chanson d'avril + List D: Bellini - Il fervido desiderio or Donizetti - Sovra il campo or Tchaikovsky - At the ball) & Grade 8 (List B: Fauré - Les roses d'Ispahan or Notre amour or Mozart - Als Luise die Briefe or Schubert - Du bist die Ruh or Schumann - Widmung or Viardot or Wolf - Verborgenheit + List D: : Donizetti - La conocchia or La lontananza or Leoncavallo - Mattinata or Rachmaninov - Soldier's Wife, The or Rossini - La pastorella delle Alpi or Tchaikovsky - Believe it not, my friend or None But the Lonely Heart or Stars looked tenderly upon us, The + List E: Gluck - O del mio dolce ardor or Lotti - Pur dicesti, o bocca bella) + Trinity Examinations 2023 onwards Singing Grade 7 (Group E: Donizetti - La conocchia) & Grade 8 (Group E: Leoncavallo - Mattinata or Vinci or Vivaldi).

Some songs are common to all 3 volumes, & some only in one or two voice-volumes; the volumes are designated here as 1) = High, 2) = Medium, 3) = Low, these numbers being given before the keys & pitches for each song.

Bellini - Il fervido desiderio [3 Ariette - no.1]: 2) Ab (eb'-f")

Bellini - Per pieta, bell'idol mio [6 Ariette - no.5]: 1) C minor (d'-ab")

Berlioz - Villanelle [Les nuits d'été op.7 - no.1]: 1) A (e'-f#")

Bizet - Chanson d'avril: 2) Eb (d'-f")

Brahms - Die Mainacht op.43 no.2: 2) Gb (bb-fb") / 3) Eb (a/bb-d")

Brahms - Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer op.105 no.2: 2) E (a-f")

Brahms - Von ewige liebe op.43 no.1: 3) B minor (a-f#")

Brahms - Wir wandelten op.96 no.2: 1) Db (eb'-gb")

Chausson - Le colibri op.2 no.7: 1) Db (f'-gb")

Debussy - La grotte [3 Chansons de France - no.2]: 3) B (b-d#")

Debussy - Mandoline: 1) C (c'-g") / 2) Bb (bb-f")

Donizetti - La conocchia: 1) D (c#'-f#"/a")

Donizetti - La lontananza: 3) D minor (a-e"/f")

Donizetti - Sovra il campo della vita [6 Arie - no.4]: 2) F (a-f") / 3) Eb (g-eb")

Duparc - Chanson triste: 1) E (c#'/f'-a") / 2) C (bb/d'-f#")

Duparc - Testament: 3) C minor (c'-gb")

Fauré - Aprés un reve op.7 no.1: 2) C minor (c'-f")

Fauré - Les berceaux op. 23 no.1: 2) C minor (bb-g") / 3) Bb minor (ab-f")

Fauré - Les roses d'Ispahan op.39 no.4: 1) E (e'-g#") / 2) D (d'-f#") / 3) C (c'-e")

Fauré - Notre amour op.23 no.2: 1) E (d#'-a"/b") / 2) D (c#'-g"/a")

Fauré - Prison op.83 no.1: 3) C# minor (a#-e")

Gluck - O del mio dolce ardor [Paride ed Elena]: 1) G minor (d'-a") / 2) E minor (b-f#") / 3) D minor (a-e")

Leoncavallo - Mattinata: 1) E (c#'-b") / 2) D (b-a") / 3) C (a-g")

Lotti - Pur dicesti, o bocca bella [Arminio]: 1) E (e'-f#"/g#") / 2) D (d'-e"/f#") / 3) C (c'-d"/e")

Mahler - Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?: 2) Eb (bb-g")

Mozart - Als Luise die Briefe...(Ungluckliche Liebe K. 520): 1) C minor (c'-f")

Poulenc - C [2 Poemes de Louis Aragon - no.1]: 1) Cb (eb'-ab")

Rachmaninov - O njet maliju (Oh stay, my love, forsake me not!): 2) D minor (f#'-g")

Rachmaninov - Polyubila ya na pechal svoyu (Soldier's Wife, The) op.8 no.4: 2) G minor (f#'-g")

Rachmaninov - Vjishna idjet (Spring Waters) op.14 no.11: 1) Eb (bb/eb'-a#")

Ravel - Chanson romanesque [Don Quichotte a Dulcinée - no.1]: 3) (Bb-f')

Rossini - La pastorella delle Alpi [Serate Musicali /Soirées Musicales - no.6]: 1) C (e'-g")

Schubert - Du bist die Ruh op.59 no.3 / D776: 1) Eb (eb'-ab") / 2) C (c'-f") / 3) Bb (bb-eb").

Schumann - Die Beiden Grenadiere op.49 no.1: 3) Bb (a-f#")

Schumann - Du bist wie eine Blume [Myrthen op.25 - no.24]: 1) A (g'-f")/ 2) G (f#'-e") / 3) F (e'-d")

Schumann - Widmung [Myrthen op.25 - no.1]: 1) Ab (b-gb") / 2) Gb (a-f") / 3) F (g-e")

Strauss, R - Die Nacht op.10 no.3: 1) B minor (c#'-g")

Strauss, R - Traum durch die Dammerung op.29 no.1: 2) E (b-fb")

Tchaikovsky - At the ball (Sred shumnovo bala) op.38 no.3: 2) B minor (b-e") / 3) A minor (a-d")

Tchaikovsky - Believe it not, my friend (Ne ver, moy drug) op.6 no.1: 1) C# minor (c#'-f#") / 3) A minor (a-d")

Tchaikovsky - None But the Lonely Heart (Net, tolko totl) op.6 no.6: 1) Eb (d'-g") / 2) Db (c'-f") / 3) C (b-e")

Tchaikovsky - Stars looked tenderly upon us, The (Nam zvjezdi) op.60 no.12: 3) Eb (bb-fb")

Verdi - Deh pietoso, oh Addolorata [6 Romanze - no.6: 3) D minor (a-eb")

Viardot - Les filles de Cadix: 1) F (c'-g") / 2) D (a-e")

Vinci - Teco, sì, vengo anch'io [La Caduta dei Decemviri]: 3) G (c#'-e"/g")

Vivaldi - Poveri affetti miei [Orlando Furioso RV Anh 84]: 2) G minor (b-eb"/g")

Wolf - Verborgenheit [Morike-Lieder - no.12]: 1) Eb (d'-gb") / 2) Db (c'-f") / 3) C (b-eb")

Tag: Singing Grade 8