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 Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square [Manning Sherwin]
• An Sylvia [Franz Schubert]
• Dove sei? [Handel]
• Fear no more the heat o’ the sun [Ian Higginson]
• From a Railway Carriage [Alec Rowley]
• Hirschlein ging im Wald spazieren [Peter Cornelius]
• I attempt from love’s sickness to fly [H. Purcell]
• If doughty deeds [Sullivan]
• It was a lover and his lass [Morley]
• Jeg elsker Dig [Grieg]
• Jsem jako lípa košatá [Dvorák]
• Linden Lea [Vaughan Williams]
• Love Walked In [George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin]
• Mariä Wiegenlied [Max Reger]
• My Ship [Kurt Weill]
• Rejoice in the Lord [James Nares]
• Rugiadose odorose [A. Scarlatti]
• Simple Gifts [Trad.]
• Tell me, lovely shepherd [William Boyce]
• The Birds’ Lament [Richard Rodney Bennett]
• Trade Winds [Frederick Keele]
• Una palomita blanca [Rodrigo]
• Vergebliches Ständchen [Brahms]
• Where the bee sucks [Thomas Arne]
• Where’er you walk [Handel]
• Bengawan Solo [Trad.]
• Cantilena del ‘Maggio’ [Trad.]
• Canto de la trilla [Trad.]
• Henry Martyn [Trad.]
• Molihua [Trad.]
• Noches de luna [Trad.]
• Tatties an’ Herrin’ [Trad.]
• The Banks of Newfoundland [Trad.]
• The Blackbird of Avondale [Trad.]
• The Sprig of Thyme [Trad.]
• The Woods of Trugh [Trad.]
• To be a Farmer’s Boy [Trad.]
• Vieni, vieni o mio diletto [Vivaldi]