The G. Schirmer Collection of American Art Song - 50 Songs by 29 Composers  E-mail this product to a friend

Features:

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.

Table of Contents:

Monk and His Cat, The (Barber)

Night Wanderers (Barber)

St. Ita's Vision (Barber)

Slumber Song of the Madonna, A (Barber)

Strings in the earth and air (Barber)

Meadow-Larks (Beach)

Amor (Bolcom)

The Bustle in a House (Bolcom)

On the seashore of endless worlds (Carpenter)

Lamb, The (Chanler)

Meet Doctor Livermore (Chanler)

Fort Tryon Park: September (Corigliano)

Song to the Witch of the Cloisters (Corigliano)

Christmas at the Cloisters (Corigliano)

Unicorn, The (Corigliano)

Forever Young (Corigliano)

Farewell to the House in Bonac (Dello Joio)

Love in the Dictionary (Dougherty)

Review (Dougherty)

i carry your heart (Duke)

In a Myrtle Shade (Griffes)

Lament of Ian the Proud, The (Griffes)

At the well (Hageman)

Do not go, my love (Hageman)

Breakfast Song (Harbison)

Odor (Harbison)

Animal Passion (Heggie)

Once Upon a Universe (Heggie)

Shepherd, The (Hoiby)

Where the Music Comes From (Hoiby)

Evening (Ives)

In the mornin' (Ives)

Serenity (Ives)

A Good Boy (Kernis)

Spring and the Fall, The (Lekberg)

Debts (Mechem)

Old Man's Song, The (Menotti)

Swing, The (Menotti)

Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes, The (Moore)

Calm is the Night (Niles)

Reward (Niles)

I thank all who have loved me (Pasatieri)

Good morning midnight (Previn)

Breath of a Rose, The (Still)

Grace (Tilson Thomas)

Orpheus with his lute (Schuman)

Love Song (Thomson)

Prayer to Saint Catherine, A (Thomson)

Blue Monday (Walters)

I love the dark hours of my being (Mehldau)

Publisher:	G. Schirmer, In
Composer:	Various
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Voicing:	Low Voice
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Pages:	240