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Expressive singing : song anthology / selected, arranged and edited by Van A. Christy.

Other author/creatorChristy, Van A. (Van Ambrose), 1900-1990.
Format Musical Score and Print
EditionMedium voice, 2nd ed.
Publication InfoDubuque, Iowa : Wm. C. Brown, ©1983.
Description1 score (2 volumes) ; 28 cm.
Subject(s)
Series [Brown] Music series
Music series. ^A311581
Contents v. 1. Art songs: I love thee = I liebe dich / Beethoven. Still as the night = Still wie die Nacht / Bohm. A resolve = Obstination / Fontenailles. Dedication = Widmung ; Good night! = Gute Nacht! ; Out of my soul's great sadness = Aus meinen grossen Schmerzen / Franz. I love thee = Ich liebe dich ; Two brown eyes = Zwei braune Augen / Grieg. Verdant meadows = Verdi prati ; Where'er you walk / Handel. She never told her love / Haydn. The sea / MacDowell. Sombre woods = Bois épais / Lully. The joys of love = Plaisir d'amour / Martini. Drink to me only with thine eyes / Mellish. Little boy blue / Nevin. Passing by / Purcell. Faith in spring = Frühlingsglaube ; Morning greeting = Morgengrüss / Schubert. On wings of music = Auf Flügeln des Gesanges ; The lotus flower = Die Lotusblume ; Thou'rt lovely as a flower = Du bist wie eine Blume / Schumann. Think on me / Scott. The lost chord / Sullivan. None but the lonely heart = Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt / Tchaikovsky.
Contents Old Italian: Tho not deserving = Sebben, crudele / Caldara. Why feel my heart so dormant = Nel cor più non mi sento / Paisiello. Oh, no longer seek to pain me = O cessate di paigarmi / Scarlatti. Ararilli, my fiar one = Amarilli, mia bella / Caccini. Sacred songs and spirituals: Beautiful savior. The holy city / Adams. Joshua fit the battle of Jericho. Bread of angels = Panis angelicus. Lonesome valley. Eye hath not seen / Gaul. Requiem / Homer. Oh, rest in the Lord / Mendelssohn. Great creator = Ave verum / Mozart. A legend / Tchaikovsky. Ballads: Lithuanian song = Litauisches Lied / Chopin. The old woman and the peddler. A very commonplace story = Ein sehr gewöhnliche Geschichte / Haydn. A tragic story / Mozart. The pretty creature / Wilson.
Contents Folk songs: The Miller of Dee / Beethoven (arr.). Far down in the valley = Da unten im Tale ; Oh, calm of night = In stiller Nacht / Brahms (har.). Tutu maramba. All through the night. Away over yandro (He's gone away). Begone dull care. Go 'way from my window. Mister banjo = Musieu bainjo. Poor wayfaring stranger. Shenandoah (The wide Missouri). -- v. 2. Old English and nineteenth-century English: Love has eyes / Bishop. Have you seen but a white lillie grow /Anon. Blow, blow, thou winter wind ; The lass with the delicate air / Arne. A pastoral / Carey. It was a lover and his lass / Morely. Come unto these yellow sands ; I attempt from love's sickness to fly / Purcell. Now sleeps the crimson petal / Quilter. My lovely Celia / Monro. Weep you no more, sad fountains / Quilter. Orpheus with his lute / Sullivan.
Contents Old Italian: Victorius, my heart is? = Vittoria, mio core! / Carissimi. Fairest adored = Alma del core ; When on the surging wave = Come raggio di sol / Caldara. Virgin, fount of love = Vergin, tuto amor / Durante. Dear love of mine = Caro mio ben / Giordani. If thou lov'st me = Se tu m'ami ; Nini / Pergolesi. Forest, thy green arbors = Selve, voi che le speranze ; To be near thee = Star vicino / Rosa. The sun o'er the Ganges = Già il sole dal Gange / Scarlatti. Well thou knowest = Tu lo sai / Torelli. With cunning conniving = Che fiero costume / Legrenzi.
Contents German Lieder: Sapphic ode = Sapphische Ode / Brahms. To the distant deloved = An die ferne Geliebte / Beehoven. By the sea = Am Meer ; Hedge rose = Heidenröslein ; Impatience = Ungeduld ; Serenade = Ständchen / Schubert. I'll not complain = Ich grolle nicht / Schumann. Tomorrow = Morgen / Strauss. I dreamed that I was weeping = Ich hab' im Traum geweinet / Schumann. To you = Zueignung ; All souls' day = Allerseelen / Strauss. Secrecy = Verborgenheit / Wolf.
Contents Modern French impressionistic: Evening fair = Beau soir / Debussy. After a dream = Après un rêve ; The cradles = Les berceaux / Fauré. Florian's song = Chanson de Florian / Godard. The exquisite hour = L'Heure exquise ; Were my songs with wings provided = Si mes vers avaient des ailes / Hahn. I wet, beloved, as I dreamed = J'ai pleuré un rêve / Hüe. The captive = L'Esclave / Lalo. Elegy = Élégie. Oratorio and sacred: Abide with me = Bist du bei mir / Bach. O divine redeemer = Repentir / Gounod. O lovely peace ; O sleep, why dost thou leave me / Handel. O Lord, have mercy = Peità, Signore / Stradella. Weep no more / Handel.
Contents Leave me to languish = Lascia ch'io pianga / Handel. O death now come = Lasciatemi morire / Monteverdi. Dido's lament / Purcell. Ah, poor heart! = Ah! mio cor / Handel.
General noteFor voice and piano.
General noteWords in original language and/or English.
General note"Vol. 1: Songs ... designed primarily for the beginning student. Vol. 2: Songs ... designed primarily for intermediate and advanced students"--T.p., verso.
LCCN 81068953
ISBN0697035239 (v. 1)
ISBN069703531X (v. 2)

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Music Music Stacks M1619 .E962 1983 V. 1 ✔ Available Place Hold
Music Music Stacks M1619 .E962 1983 V. 2 ✔ Available Place Hold