
This edition presents 65 diverse songs by major composers of German art song, or lieder, and is the perfect one-volume lieder source for voice students. All the songs are new Vocal Library editions. Historical notes about the relevant history and background of each song are included, as are line-by-line translations for study. A select committee of experienced voice teachers was consulted to choose the most essential and vocally instructive songs in compiling this collection. Composers represented: Beethoven, Brahms, Franz, Gustav Mahler, Alma Mahler, Fanny Hensel, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schubert, Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, Strauss, Wolf. Co-editor Dr. Virginia Saya, on the faculty of Loyola Marymount University, is a musicologist with a special interest in lieder. This collection includes the first American edition of Funf Ophelia Lieder by Brahms. 288 pages, sewn binding.
- Ba, Be
- Be Kind To Your Web-footed Friends
- Betty Botter
- Boa Constrictor [Silverstein, Shel]
- Boola Boola [Goodwin] [Hirsch]
- Do Your Ears Hang Low?
- Doctor Foster [Edison, Roger]
- Eating Goober Peas
- Father's Old Gray Whiskers
- From Wibbleton To Wobbleton [Edison, Roger]
- Gone To St. Ives [Edison, Roger]
- Higgledy, Piggledy
- I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard [Petrie, H. W.]
- I With I Were A Wittle Thuger Bun
- If All The World Were Paper
- It Ain't Gonna Rain
- Jack Spratt
- John Brown's Baby
- John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
- Limericks [Williams, Alfred]
- Little Bunny Foo Foo
- Mary Had A William Goat
- Mary's Coal Black Lamb
- Michael Finnigin
- Mules
- Oh, You Can't Get To Heaven
- One Grasshopper Jumped
- Peter Piper [Edison, Roger]
- Rig-Jag-Jig-Jag [Williams, Alfred]
- Rip Your Pants
- Rub-a-dub-dub
- See-Saw, Sacra Down
- Shool
- Skidamarink
- Starkle, Starkle, Little Twink
- Ten Little Teddy Bears [Edison, Roger]
- The Animal Fair
- The Bear Went Over The Mountain
- The Centipede And The Frog [Jones, Walter]
- The Clam [Silverstein, Shel]
- The Green Grass Grows All Around
- The King Of The Cannibal Islands
- The Lion [Silverstein, Shel]
- The Monkey And The Elephant [Silverstein, Shel] [Taylor, Baxter]
- The Peanut Song
- The Slitheree-Dee [Silverstein, Shel]
- The State Song
- The Three Flies [Williams, Alfred]
- The Woodchuck Song [Morse, Ted]
- There Was A Crooked Man
- There's A Hole In My Bucket
- Three Jolly Fishermen
- Tough Luck
- Two Little Flies [Olds, W. B.]
- Two Naughty Flies [Braman, Dan]
- Under The Bamboo Tree [Johnson, Rosamond] [Cole, Bob]
- We're Here Because
- When Mosquitos Cackle [Sletwa, Ned]
- Who Did?
- Will You Walk A Little Faster? [Gratty, A. S.]