American Art Song

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• Composer: Various
• Publisher: G. Schirmer
• Editor: Richard Walters
• Voice: High
• Category: English Art Song Anthology




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• Language: English
• Item Number: 50485068
• Description: 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
  1. “A Good Boy” by Kernis, Jay
  2. “Amor” by Bolcom, William
  3. “Animal Passion” by Heggie, Jake
  4. “At the Well” by Hageman, Richard
  5. “Blue Monday” by Walters, Richard
  6. “Breakfast Song” by Harbison, John
  7. “The Breath of a Rose” by Still, William Grant
  8. “Calm is the Night ” by Niles, John Jacob
  9. “Christmas at the Cloisters” by Corigliano, John
  10. “The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes” by Moore, Ben
  11. “Debts” by Mechem, Kirke
  12. “Do not go, my love” by Hageman, Richard
  13. “Evening” by Ives, Charles
  14. “Farewell to the House in Bonac” by Dello Joio, Norman
  15. “Forever Young” by Corigliano, John
  16. “Fort Tryon Park: September ” by Corigliano, John
  17. “Good morning midnight” by Previn, Andre
  18. “Grace” by Tilson Thomas, Michael
  19. “I thank all who have loved me” by Pasatieri, Thomas
  20. “In a Myrtle Shade” by Griffes, Charles T.
  21. “In the mornin'” by Ives, Charles
  22. “The Lamb” by Chanler, Theodore
  23. “The Lament of Ian the Proud” by Griffes, Charles T.
  24. “Love Song” by Thomson, Virgil
  25. “Love in the Dictionary” by Dougherty, Celius
  26. “Meadow-Larks” by Beach, Amy (Mrs. H.H.A.)
  27. “Meet Doctor Livermore” by Chanler, Theodore
  28. “The Monk and His Cat” by Barber, Samuel
  29. “Night Wanderers” by Barber, Samuel
  30. “Odor” by Harbison, John
  31. “The Old Man's Song” by Menotti, Gian Carlo
  32. “On the seashore of endless worlds” by Carpenter, John Alden
  33. “Once Upon a Universe” by Heggie, Jake
  34. “Orpheus with his Lute” by Schuman, William
  35. “A Prayer to Saint Catherine” by Thomson, Virgil
  36. “Review” by Dougherty, Celius
  37. “Serenity” by Ives, Charles
  38. “The Shepherd” by Hoiby, Lee
  39. “A Slumber Song of the Madonna” by Barber, Samuel
  40. “Song to the Witch of the Cloisters” by Corigliano, John
  41. “The Spring and the Fall” by Lekberg, Sven
  42. “St. Ita's Vision” by Barber, Samuel
  43. “Strings in the Earth and Air” by Barber, Samuel
  44. “The Swing” by Menotti, Gian Carlo
  45. “The Bustle in a House” by Bolcom, William
  46. “The Tiger” by Thomson, Virgil
  47. “The Unicorn” by Corigliano, John
  48. “Where the Music Comes From” by Hoiby, Lee
  49. “I carry your heart” by Duke, John