Language of Song: Advanced High Voice

The language of song is a graded series of songbooks that provide classic song repertoire, carefully selected to develop the vital skills required to sing in a foreign language.

An invaluable resource for all singing students and teachers, each song gives both a literal and poetic translation of each text, a detailed pronunciation guide using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) guide and background information on the songs as well as technical and musical teaching points. The accompanying CD provides the text for each song spoken by a native speaker as well as a recording of each song accompaniment by international pianist Iain Harrington.

Pur dicesti, o bocca bella (Lotti)

O del mio dolce ardor bramato oggetto (Gluck)

La conocchia (Donizetti)

Per pietà, bell' idol mio (Bellini)

La pastorella delle Alpi (Rossini)

Mattinata (Leoncavallo)

Widmung (Schumann)

Du bist die Ruh (Schubert)

Verborgenheit (Wolf)

Unglückliche Liebe (Mozart)

Du bist wie eine Blume (Schumann)

Wir wandelten (Brahms)

Die Nacht (Strauss)

Après un rêve (Fauré)

Notre amour (Fauré)

Les roses d'Ispahan (Fauré)

Les filles de Cadix (Viardot)

Villanelle (Berlioz)

Chanson triste (Duparc)

Mandoline (Debussy)

Le colibri (Chausson)

C (Poulenc)

None But The Lonely Heart (Tchaikovsky)

Believe It Not, My Friend (Tchaikovsky)

The Stars Looked Tenderly Upon Us (Tchaikovsky)

Spring Waters (Rachmaninov)