The five-volume ABRSM Songbook series offers singers and their teachers an unrivalled choice of core
repertoire that will provide the bedrock for many years of rewarding vocal study.

The series features:
• Over 100 art songs, drawn from Grades 1–5 of ABRSM’s Singing syllabus
• A massive range of repertoire from the Medieval to modern musicals – many in practical new editions
• Irresistible new arrangements by Carol Barratt of 18 classic songs
• A rich collection of 60 authentic unaccompanied traditional songs, sourced from around the world
• English singing translations for every non-English-language song – many newly-commissioned
• Useful notes on the songs containing background information and performance suggestions
• CDs of piano accompaniments to all the art songs, performed by Simon Lepper, as well as recordings
of the text to every song, performed by native speakers

Contents

• A Cradle Song [Vaughan Williams]
• A New Year Carol [Benjamin Britten]
• A Smuggler’s Song [Christopher Le Fleming]
• Blow, blow, thou winter wind [Thomas Arne]
• Clock-a-clay [Richard Rodney Bennett]
• Consider yourself [Lionel Bart]
• Die Waise [Robert Schumann]
• Down by the salley gardens (text by W.B. Yeats, set to the Air: The Maids of Mourne Shore) [Anon.]
• Fy nghalon [Trad.]
• I feel pretty [Leonard Bernstein]
• Long ago and far away [Jerome Kern]
• Long Time Ago [Anon.]
• Love quickly is pall’d [H. Purcell]
• Med en Primula veris [Grieg]
• One Hand, One Heart [Leonard Bernstein]
• Seligkeit [Franz Schubert]
• She’s like the swallow [Trad.]
• Shiny [Cecil Cope]
• Silent Worship [Handel]
• Since first I saw your face [Thomas Ford]
• The Dormouse’s Carol [Elizabeth Poston]
• The Woodcutter’s Song [Vaughan Williams]
• When daisies pied [Thomas Arne]
• A mi házunk eleje [Trad.]
• Black is the colour [Trad.]
• Bunclody [Trad.]
• El galán incógnito [Trad.]
• Greenland Whale Fishery [Trad.]
• Mak Inang [Trad.]
• Mengjiang nü [Trad.]
• The Cage [Trad.]
• The Donside Emigrant’s Farewell [Trad.]
• The Wings of a Gull [Trad.]
• Tudora [Trad.]
• Y deryn pur [Trad.]
• O cessate di piagarmi from Il Pompeo [A. Scarlatti]