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

• Ah! how pleasant ’tis to love [H. Purcell]
• Dalmatian Cradle Song [Anon.]
• Die Bekehrte [Ignaz Brüll]
• Ferry me across the water [Finzi]
• God be in my head [Walford Davies]
• I’m learning to read [Betty Roe]
• In the garden flowers are growing [Trad.]
• Komm, liebe Zither, komm [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]
• Llwyn Onn [Trad.]
• Minnelied [Franz Schubert]
• My House [Leonard Bernstein]
• ’Orrible Little Blue-Eyes [Betty Roe]
• Sicilian River Song [Anon.]
• Sweet and low [Joseph, Sir Barnby]
• The Banks of Allan Water [Trad.]
• The Owls [Peter Jenkyns]
• The Path to the Moon [Eric Thiman]
• The Sunflower [Trad.]
• Wiegenlied [Wilhelm Taubert]
• Windy Nights [Charles Villiers Stanford]
• Aa Ola, Ola, min eigen onge! [Trad.]
• A la nanita nana [Trad.]
• All things are quite silent [Trad.]
• Coasts of Barbary [Trad.]
• Cuckoo [Trad.]
• Fengyang huagu 1 and 2 [Trad.]
• Green Besoms [Trad.]
• Kalevalainen runosävelmä [Trad.]
• Román Castillo [Trad.]
• Seventeen Come Sunday [Trad.]
• Stole mi se oženi [Trad.]
• Sweet Nightingale [Trad.]