ABRSM Songbook Book 5, The

Description

Selected pieces for voice + piano accompaniment & traditional unaccompanied songs (no arranger listed for these) for ABRSM Grade 5 Examination. Includes backing CD. Original language lyrics + English translations where appropriate. Set for ABRSM Examination 2018 onwards Singing Grade 5 (List A: Arne or Handel - either - or Morley or Purcell or Scarlatti or Vivaldi + List B: Bennett or Dvořák or Grieg or Higginson or Keel or Reger or Rodrigo or Schubert or Vaughan Williams or Trad. - Simple Gifts + List C: Gershwin or Sherwin or Weill) & Singing for Musical Theatre Grade 5 (List A: Gershwin or Weill).

Arne - Where the bee sucks [Tempest, The]: F (c'-f")

Bennett - Birds' Lament, The (Vogel Klage, Der) [Aviary, The]: A (c#'-e")

Boyce - Tell me, lovely shepherd [Solomon]: Bb (bb-f")

Brahms - Vergebliches Ständchen / Vain Suit, The [Romanzen und Lieder op.84 - no.4]: G (d'-e")

Cornelius - Hirschlein ging im Wald spazieren / Once a little Fawn was straying: D (d'-e")

Dvořák - Jsem jako lípa košatá / (Like to a linden tree) op.31 no.3: F (d'-f")

Gershwin - Love Walked In [Goldwyn Follies, The]: Eb (bb-f")

Grieg - Jeg elsker Dig / /I love you [Hjertets melodier op.5 - no.3]: Bb (d'-eb")

Handel - Dove sei? / O, where art thou? [Rodelina HWV19]: E (b-e") & Where'er you walk [Semele HWV58]: G (d'-e")

Higginson - Fear no more the heat o' the sun [Cymbeline]: E minor (d'-e")

Keel - Trade Winds [3 Salt-Water Ballads - no.2]: Eb (bb-eb")

Morley - It was a lover and his lass: D (d'-d")

Nares - Rejoice in the Lord: F (f'-f")

Purcell - I attempt from love's sickness to fly [Indian Queen, The Z630]: G (c'-e")

Reger - Mariä Wiegenlied / Virgin's Slumber Song, The [Schlichte Weisen op.76 - no.52]: Eb (eb'-eb")

Rodrigo - Una palomita blanca / Little White Dove, The [12 canciones espanolas - no.3]: C minor (f'-eb")

Rowley - From a Railway Carriage: Bb (d'-f")

Scarlatti, A - Rugiadose, odorose (Le Violette) [Il Pirro e Demetrio]: G (d'-e")

Schubert - An Silvia / To Sylvia op.106 no.4/D891: A (e'-f#")

Sherwin - Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, A [New Faces]: Eb (bb-eb")

Sullivan - If doughty deeds: Eb (bb-eb")

Vaughan Williams - Linden Lea: G (d'-e")

Vivaldi - Vieni, vieni o mio diletto / Come, o come: B minor (d'-f#")

Weill - My Ship [Lady in the Dark]: F (c'-f")

Trad.

Banks of Newfoundland, The (England): G (a-e")

Blackbird of Avondale, The (Ireland): D (a-e")

Bengawan Solo / Song of the Solo River (Indonesia): C (e'-e")

Cantilena del ‘Maggio' / May Song (Italy): G (d'-d")

Canto de la trilla / Threshing Song (Spain): A minor (e'-f")

Henry Martyn (England): F (c'-d")

Molihua / Jasmine Flower (China): D (b-f#")

Noches de luna / Nights full of moonlight (Argentina): D (d'-d")

Simple Gifts (America) arr. Copland [Old American Songs]: Ab (eb'-eb")

Sprig of Thyme, The (England): G (d'-e")

Tatties an' Herrin' (Scotland): A (g-c#")

To be a Farmer's Boy (England): A (a-c#")

Woods of Trugh, The (Ireland): G (a-d")