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Samuel, Rhian: April Rise. Medium Voice and Piano (No. 1 of "Songs of Earth and Air") Ref: Y204

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Price: £3.95

Samuel, Rhian: Cerddi Hynafol/Ancient Songs. Song Cycle for Medium Voice and Piano Ref: Y183

Hwiangerdd Dinogat/Lullaby for Dinogat (C sharp - G)
Galarnad Heledd/Heledd’s Lament (C sharp - G)
Crys y Mab/The Young Man's Shirt (C sharp - G)

Premiered at the 2001 Fishguard International Festival, Cerddi Hynafol offers three delightful settings of early Welsh lyrics, each text written from the perspective of a woman’s viewpoint.

Price: £6.25

Samuel, Rhian: Colours: Two Songs for High Voice, Trumpet and Organ Ref: AC239

Price: £12.00

Samuel, Rhian: The Flowing Sand. Baritone and Piano Ref: Y230

Five songs to poems by Samuel Beckett.

Commissioned with Arts Council of Wales funds by the School of European Studies, Cardiff University, for the centenary celebrations of Samuel Beckett's birth, The Flowing Sand is a setting of five poems by this seminal 20th-century modernist that are unified as a song-cycle by meaningful contrasts of mood and of musical style. The movements are 'what would I do', 'my way is in the sand', 'Da Tagte Es', 'Roundelay' and 'saying it again'. Artistically challenging, yet well within the technical range of enterprising conservatoire students, The Flowing Sand is a major addition to the repertoire of contemporary art-song by British composers, and a significant contribution to the celebrations of the writer's anniversary year.

Price: £6.95

Samuel, Rhian: The Kingfisher. Medium Voice and Piano (No. 2 of "Songs of Earth and Air") Ref: Y205

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Price: £3.95

Samuel, Rhian: Nantcol Songs for Medium/High Voice and Piano Ref: Y213

Price: £6.25

Samuel, Rhian: Nantcol Songs for Medium/High Voice and Harp Ensemble Ref: AC212

Score & Parts

Price: £26.50

Samuel, Rhian: Snowdrop. Medium Voice and Piano (No. 3 of "Songs of Earth and Air") Ref: Y206

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Price: £3.95

Samuel, Rhian: Trinity. Three Songs for Voice, Flute and Piano Ref: Y220

This song-cycle takes its title from 'Trinity at low tide', the first of three settings of poetry by Anne Stevenson. The latest work in a sequence of Samuel's vocal music inspired by the verse of this award-winning writer, Trinity subtly evokes themes of mortality through images of the sea and of rural life, expressed with the poet's meticulous eye for detail. The duet of flute and high voice forms an important element in the beautifully woven textures of this outstanding essay in vocal chamber music, which was premiered on 1 March 2005 at the Birmingham Conservatoire.

Price: £10.50

Samuel, Rhian: Trois Chansons de François Villon for Voice and Flute or Piccolo Ref: Y168

Ballade I (G - A)
Ballade II (D flat - A flat)
Epistre (C sharp - A flat)

Price: £5.75

Samuel, Rhian: A Warm Rain. Medium Voice and Piano (No. 4 of "Songs of Earth and Air") Ref: Y207

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Price: £3.95

Samuel, Rhian: The White Amarylis. Song Cycle for Medium Voice and Piano Ref: AC162

Celebration (C - G sharp)
The Snow Light (C sharp - F sharp)
Before Dawn (C - G sharp)

Settings of poems by May Sarton. The whole cycle is also available with orchestra from our Rental Library. Before Dawn is also available separately (H406 £2.75).

Price: £12.95

Shaw, Martin: Seven Songs Ref: B767

CONTENTS
Annabel Lee (E - A)
Cargoes (B - E)
Cuckoo (D - D)
Down by the Salley Gardens (B - D)
No (B - E)
Song of the Palanquin Bearers (E - F)
When daisies pied (E - A)

Price: £5.75

Stanford, Charles Villiers: Songs Ref: MB52

Edited by Geoffrey Bush
Brahmsian in outlook yet flavoured with Irish flair and imagination, these songs reveal hidden aspects of a composer whose reputation, in all its diversity, is still to be fully revalued. One complete song-cycle, A Fire of Turf, is included, together with Three Ditties of Olden Times. Three Songs to Poems by Robert Bridges, Songs of Faith Set II, The Clown's Songs from Twelfth Night and 20 other individual songs.
First published in 1986.

Price: £88.00

Stanford, Charles Villiers: Six Songs for Medium Voice Ref: B526

Edited by Geoffrey Bush

CONTENTS
Bold unbiddable child (C - E flat (G))
Chapel on the hill (A - D)
Merry month of May (D - F)
O Mistress mine (B - D)
Pibroch (B - D)
Prospice (C - F)

Set for the Guildhall School Grade 8 examination.

Price: £5.75

Steptoe, Roger: Aspects. Song Cycle for Voice and Piano Ref: AC45

Words by Ursula Vaughan Williams

Price: £11.50

Steptoe, Roger: Chinese Lyrics Set 1 for Soprano and Piano Ref: B663

CONTENTS
A gathering of the clans (C - F)
Blue iris sweetest smells (D sharp - E flat)
He protests his loyalty (F sharp - F sharp)
On early morning (C - G)
The morning glory climbs above my head (C sharp - F sharp)

Set for the Trinity College and Licentiate and Fellowship diploma.

Price: £4.75

Steptoe, Roger: Chinese Lyrics Set 1 for Soprano and Strings 3.3.2.2.1. Ref: AC23

Score and Parts

Price: £25.00

Steptoe, Roger: Chinese Lyrics Set 1 for Soprano and String Quintet Ref: AC22

Score and Parts

Price: £17.00

Steptoe, Roger: Chinese Lyrics Set 2 for Contralto (or Countertenor) and Piano Ref: B664

CONTENTS
At the riverside (C sharp - D)
Crossing the Han river (C sharp - C sharp)
Green, green the riverside grass (C sharp - E)
Inscribed on a small garden wall (C - C sharp)
Night (C - E)
White clouds are in the sky (C - C sharp)

Price: £4.75

Steptoe, Roger: Five Rondos for Soprano, Baritone and Piano Ref: AC79

Words by Ursula Vaughan Williams

CONTENTS
Pastoral
The Prisoner
Marie Antoinette on the way to the scaffold
The Headsman
Lament for Liberté, Egalité and Fraternité

Price: £14.25

Steptoe, Roger: Three Sonnets to Delia for Baritone and Piano Ref: AC94

CONTENTS
Beautie sweet love (B flat - F)
Care-charmer sleep (D - E)
Let others sing of knights and palladines (D - E)

Price: £9.50

Stevens, Bernard: Four John Donne Songs for High Voice Ref: B627

CONTENTS
Sweetest love, I do not go (E flat - F sharp)
Go, and catch a falling star (F sharp - A)
The Good-morrow (C sharp - A)
Death be not proud (B - A (G sharp))

Price: £5.75

Storace, Steven: Seven Songs for High Voice Ref: B510

Edited by Michael Pilkington

CONTENTS
Be mine, tender passion (B flat - B flat)
Canzonet IV: The Curfew (D - F)
How mistaken is the lover (D - G)
My rising spirits thronging (F - A)
No more his fears alarming (E - A)
Peaceful slumbering on the ocean (C - G)
Summer heats bestowing (E - A)

Price: £5.75

Sullivan, Arthur: Songs Book 1 Ref: B655

Compiled by Alan Borthwick and Robin Wilson

CONTENTS
Let me Dream Again (C sharp - F sharp)
O Fair Dove! O Fond Dove! (B - F)
Orpheus with his Lute (D - G)
The Lost Chord (C - F)
The Willow Song (B - E)
Where the Bee Sucks (C - G)

Price: £5.75

Sullivan, Arthur: Songs Book 2 Ref: B666

Compiled by Alan Borthwick and Robin Wilson

CONTENTS
Arabian Love Song (E - G)
If Doughty Deeds (B flat - E falt)
Sometimes (D - G)
Sweethearts (C - G)
Tears, Idle Tears (B flat - F flat)

Price: £5.75

Sullivan, Arthur: Songs Book 3 Ref: B682

Compiled by Alan Borthwick and Robin Wilson

CONTENTS
County Guy (B - E)
Distant Shore (B flat - E flat)
Edward Gray (D - G)
Mary Morison (D - E)
Sigh no more (E - A)

Price: £5.75

Thiman, Eric: Thirteen Songs Ref: B665

CONTENTS
As Joseph was a-walking (C sharp - E)
Dainty fine bird (D - F)
Evening in lilac time (D - D)
I saw three ships (D - D)
I wandered lonely as a cloud (C - F)
Madonna and Child (E - F)
Now sleeps the crimson petal (C - F)
Sleeping (B - G)
Sweet Afton (E flat - A flat)
The rainbow (B - E)
The shepherd (D - F sharp)
The silver swan (D flat - F)
Where go the boats (C - D)

Price: £7.25

Warlock, Peter: Thirteen songs for High Voice Ref: B060

Introduction by Peter Pears

CONTENTS
The Batchelor (C sharp - F sharp)
The Birds (D - E flat)
Captain Stratton's Fancy (C - F)
Contented lover (E flat - A flat)
Cricketers of Hambledon (B flat - F)
Droll lover (B - E flat)
Elore lo (C - F)
Hey troly loly lo (C - F)
Late summer (B - F sharp)
Mr. Belloc’s Fancy (D - G (A))
Piggesnie (D - G)
Tom Tyler (D - F sharp (G))
To the memory of a great singer (D flat - G)

Price: £5.75

Wishart, Peter: Twelve Songs for Medium Voice Ref: B821

Introduction by Brian Trowell

CONTENTS
The Jackdaw (C - E)
The Magpie (A - F sharp)
Tune for Swans (E - F)
The Bedpost (D - F sharp)
Henry and Mary (C - E flat)
Spring Sadness (C sharp - F sharp)
Lament (B - F)
You are a refuge (C - C)
My God, why hast thou forsaken me? (B flat - C)
Cat Godesses (C sharp - F)
The Pessimist (D - D)
Quatres petits nègres blancs (E - E)

A pupil of Nadia Boulanger, Peter Wishart (1921-84) produced a body of song which no-one interested in our musical heritage can afford to ignore. This volume, which is set for the Trinity College Licentiate and Fellowship diploma and Guildhall School Grade examinations, brings together a dozen of his finest works in the medium that will prove ideal for recital centrepieces or as encores.

Price: £6.75

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