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  • My Life's Delight (Quilter)
  • Weep You No More (Quilter)
  • Waterbird (Hundley)
  • Spring Sorrow (Ireland)
  • Sleep (Gurney)
  • Money, O! (Head)
  • Bright Is The Ring Of Words (Vaughan Williams)
  • Dirge (Argento)
  • Spring (Argento)
  • Spring Is Like A Perhaps Hand (Argento)
  • When Faces Called Flowers Float Out Of The Ground (Argento)
  • In The Public Gardens (Beeson)
  • Indiana Homecoming (Beeson)
  • Civet A Toute Vitesse (Rabbit At Top Speed) (Bernstein)
  • Greeting (Bernstein)
  • I Hate Music! (Bernstein)
  • Jupiter Has Seven Moons (Bernstein)
  • Love Went A-riding (Bridge)
  • At The Mid Hour Of Night (Britten)
  • If It's Ever Spring Again (Britten)
  • Nocturne (Britten)
  • The Salley Gardens (Britten)
  • Sephestia's Lullaby (Britten)
  • These, My Ophelia (Chanler)
  • Down By The Salley Gardens (Clarke)
  • The Seal Man (Clarke)
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  • At The River (Copland)
  • Heart, We Will Forget Him (Copland)
  • The Little Horses (Copland)
  • Poet's Song (Copland)
  • Why Do They Shut Me Out Of Heaven? (Copland)
  • Acrostic Song (Del Tredici)
  • Central Park At Dusk (Duke)
  • There Will Be Stars (Duke)
  • Fear No More The Heat O' The Sun (Finzi)
  • It Was A Lover And His Lass (Finzi)
  • Oh Fair To See (Finzi)
  • Rain (Floyd)
  • Where Go The Boats? (Floyd)
  • The Astronomers (Hundley)
  • Sweet Suffolk Owl (Hundley)
  • How Should I Your True Love Know? (Quilter)
  • Alleluia (Rorem)
  • Ferry Me Across The Water (Rorem)
  • Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair (Foster/rorem)
  • Love (Rorem)
  • Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening (Rorem)
  • The Lads In Their Hundreds (Somervell)
  • Take, O Take Those Lips Away (Warlock)
  • Linden Lea (Vaughan Williams)

Art Song in English - 50 Songs by 20 American and British Composers (High Voice). Edited by Carol Kimball. Boosey & Hawkes Voice. Softcover. 192 pages. Boosey & Hawkes #M051933853. Published by Boosey & Hawkes (HL.48019047).

ISBN 142341831X. 9x12 inches.

A wonderful, substantial sampling of art song in the English language, featuring composers from both sides of the Atlantic. Includes many first-time transpositions, as the song list is the same for the High Voice and Low Voice editions.

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Intermediate

August 10, 2011

good songs but low keys for a high voice

Originally bought this for Gurney's sleep, but found it was in a lowered key, which makes it pretty much useless for a high voice. Most of the songs are reasonably low in the voice, more in the mid-range, though the songs themselves are a good selection.

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Ben Caston

Location: from Mount Vernon, GA

Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced

March 22, 2007

a satisfied customer

I assigned Ned Rorem's "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" to a tenor but I could not find a high version of the song anywhere until the collection ART SONG IN ENGLISH became available. I ordered it and recieved it within a few days. I love the collection and I...

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