Authoritative compilation of more than 100 Lieder features well-beloved melodies set to the poetry of Heine, Goethe, Burns, Byron, and others. Reprinted from the Breitkopf and Härtel edition. New translations of lyrics.

Britain, long revered for its choral music and partsongs, had largely neglected art songs since the Elizabethan era. The middle of the nineteenth century witnessed efforts to revive the genre, particularly in the works of Sir C. Hubert Parry and Sir Charles Villiers Stanford. The following generation, including the Scottish composer Hamish MacCunn (1868–1916), built on the foundations laid by Parry and Stanford and served as the bridge to the vocal music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sir Edward Elgar, Ivor Gurney, John Ireland, and ultimately Benjamin Britten. Though best known for his Scottish-influenced compositions, MacCunn composed over 100 songs that, free from national constraints, are some of the most refined and sophisticated examples of his music. Almost no modern editions of MacCunn’s song exist, though many were published during the composer’s lifetime. The current two-part edition presents the composer’s 102 extant songs. Part 1 contains 53 individual songs; part 2 presents the songs that were first published as sets.

This outstanding collection of 12 singable folk songs from eight countries features easily learned texts in six different languages including English. Pronunciation guides and optional English lyrics are included where needed. Songs from Italy, Germany, Venezuela, Spain, France, South Africa, Canada, and USA. 64 pages. Titles: A la Nanita Nana * All My Trials * Auprès de Ma Blonde * Cara Mamma * Chevaliers de la Table Ronde * Guter Mond * The Jones Boys * The Last Rose of Summer * Santa Lucia * Schlaf in Guter Ruh * Siyahamba * Valencianita.

Original compilation spotlights works by an unjustly neglected composer: Sonata, "A Sea Idyll," Capriccio Nos. 1 and 2, three miniature Pastorals, "Three Poems," "Lament," "Three Sketches Suite," and many others.

Authoritative compilation of more than 100 Lieder features well-beloved melodies set to the poetry of Heine, Goethe, Burns, Byron, and others. Reprinted from the Breitkopf and Härtel edition. New translations of lyrics.

A new high edition of our popular vocal collection, this volume of best-loved folk songs for solo voice and piano contains fourteen memorable works arranged by three of Alfred Music’s top writers: Jay Althouse, Mark Hayes, and Ruth Elaine Schram. Titles: * All My Trials * All Through the Night * Camptown Races * Cindy * Fire Down Below * Follow the Drinking Gourd * Go 'Way from My Window * He's Gone Away * Old Dan Tucker * Poor Boy * Poor Wayfaring Stranger * Shenandoah * Simple Gifts * The Water Is Wide

Expertly crafted for solo voice and piano, Folk Songs for Solo Singers, Volume 1 includes 11 favorite folk songs arranged by some of Alfred's finest writers, such as Philip Kern, Jay Althouse, and Carl Strommen.

Unaccompanied choral works composed or otherwise arranged by Brahms for mixed choruses as well as individual men's and women's choruses include songs, love songs, romances, quartetes, and duets.

This selection of arias ranges from the dawn of Italian opera to the late nineteenth century. Arranged chronologically, it encompasses historically and artistically significant operatic modes as well as many varieties of airs. Highlights include Bizet’s 'Près de remparts,ö' from Carmen; 'Voi, che sapeteö' and 'Deh vieni, non tardarö' from Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro; 'Gerechter Gott!ö' from Wagner’s Rienzi; Verdi’s 'Saper vorresteö' from Un Ballo in Maschera and 'O don fatale,ö' from Don Carlo; Handel’s 'Lascia ch’ io pianga,ö' from Rinaldo; plus arias by Monteverde, Weber, Rossini, Donizetti, and other composers. Lyrics appear in the original languages and in English translations.

The dramatic overture had its beginnings in Renaissance court entertainments, which often began with a flourish of trumpets. It reached a high point of inspiration in the overtures that George Frideric Handel (1685 1759) composed for his operas and oratorios. This volume presents 60 Handel overtures and sinfonias, originally scored for orchestra, superbly arranged for solo keyboard. They have been reprinted from an extremely rare edition originally printed, probably in the 1750s, by Handel's London publisher, John Walsh. Happily, these brilliant works have lost nothing in translation of their Handelian vitality and interest. Many of them, such as the overtures to "Messiah, Acis and Galatea, Alexander s Feast, Julius Caesar, "the second overture in "Solomon" (known as the "Arrival of the Queen of Sheba"), and the so-called Water Musick, are very familiar to music lovers. Some will be fresh discoveries for keyboard players. Together they demonstrate Handel s exciting theatrical sense, his technical virtuosity in composition, and his dazzling mastery of musical forms, which he often combined into his own unique creations. This edition preserves the original keyboard notation, amazingly precise in its elegant execution and, of course, entirely legible to present-day performers."