The largest, most comprehensive collection of French art songs ever published, with 60 songs by 24 composers. This wonderful anthology, with newly researched editions in clean new engravings, includes interesting notes about the composers, poets, facts about the composition and performance history for each song, and new line-by-line translations for study. Some songs are published in transpositions for the first time. This is the ideal collection for teachers to assign to voice students. Includes the complete Le Bestiaire (Poulenc) and Five Greek Songs (Ravel).
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
THE all-in-one French art song collection for sopranos and tenors One of my biggest problems with Amazon is that often you cannot see which specific songs and/or composers are featured in a collection. So, I take it upon myself to provide this information to you: Hector Berlioz - Villanelle Georges Bizet - Chanson d'avril; Guitare; Ouvre ton coeur Emmanuel Chabrier - Les cigales; Villanelle des petits canards Ernest Chausson - Hebe; Le charme; Le colibri; Le temps des lilas Claude Debussy - Beau soir; Les cloches; Mandoline; Noel des enfants qui... more info
Good Selection The selection of songs in this book is good, but it would be helpful to have the IPA pronunciation for them also.
not a great sellection of music It's got the basics, but if you want a good selection of French music I've discovered that you have to buy it by composer. If you bought a book of Faure then you would have half of this book anyway.
good product This was delivered quickly and in good condition. Keep up the good service.