The Language of Song - Advanced: Medium Voice - Softcover

Nicola-Jane Kemp; Heidi Pegler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571530761 ISBN 13: 9780571530762

Publisher: Faber Music Limited, 2008

Synopsis

The Language Of Song: Advanced (Medium Voice) is part of the successful series by Heidi Pegler and Nicola-Jane Kemp. The ability to sing in foreign languages is a much-needed skill for singers, but few vocal training resources tackle this aspect comprehensively in one book. With this in mind, ABRSM examiners and professional singers Heidi and Nicola-Jane have written 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 downloadable audio provides the text for each song spoken by a native speaker - expert language consultants who specialise in coaching singers - as well as a recording of each song accompaniment by international pianist Iain Harrington.

Not just ideal for those taking graded singing exams, these are invaluable for singers of any age exploring international song repertoire up to university and college level.

Learn to sing this wonderful foreign language repertoire confidently and effectively and celebrate the Language of Song!

**ABRSM selected pieces (Singing from 2009):

Sovra il campo (Donizetti)

Chanson d'avril (Bizet)

At the ball (Sred shumnovo bala) (Tchaikovsky)

O del mio dolce ardor: from Paride ed Elena (Gluck)

Pur dicesti, o bocca bella: from Arminio (Lotti)

Poveri affetti miei: from Orlando furioso (Vivaldi)

Les roses d’Ispahan (Faure)

Notre amour (Faure)

Mattinata (Leoncavallo)

Du bist die Ruh (Schubert)

Widmung: No. 1 from Myrthen (Schumann)

Les filles de Cadix (Viardot)

Verborgenheit: No. 12 from Mörike-Lieder (Wolf)

Polyubila ya na pechal svoyu (The Soldier’s Wife) (Rachmaninov)

Net, tolko tot, kto znal (None But the Lonely Heart) (Tchaikovsky)

About this title

Review

This excellent anthology series is a good source for reference, study, and performance. Journal of Singing (National Association of Teachers of Singing), May 2010 The advanced editions...of this excellent series provides a wealth of classic repertoire, selected and presented to develop the skills needed to sing in a foreign language, and will doubtless prove a prime resource for teacher and students.....The reason these books take the Book of the Month slot is that the precision in every aspect of this book - the most valuable publications for the serious singer for some time - simply ooze with care and attention. The purpose is functional - aimed squarely at the highest level of education, but the pages carry a lot of the emotion of the editors, as well as that of the composers. Put simply: quite superb editions. Mi Pro Magazine, December 2008 The books are such a tremendous achievement, and such a valuable addition to the singing teacher's armoury... Singing Magazine (Association of Teachers of Singing), Winter 2008

Synopsis

The ability to sing in foreign languages is a much-needed skill for singers, but few vocal training resources tackle this aspect comprehensively in one book. With this in mind, ABRSM examiners and professional singers Heidi Pegler and Nicola-Jane Kemp have written "The language of song", a graded series of songbooks that provide classic song repertoire, carefully selected to develop the vital skills required to sing in a foreign languageAn 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 - expert language consultants who specialise in coaching singers - as well as a recording of each song accompaniment by international pianist John Lenehan.Not just ideal for those taking graded singing exams, these are invaluable for singers of any age exploring international song repertoire up to university and college level.Learn to sing this wonderful foreign language repertoire confidently and effectively and celebrate the Language of Song!

Edition details

• Publisher: Faber Music Limited
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571530761
• ISBN 13: 9780571530762
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136
• Editor: Kemp Nicola-Jane, Pegler Heidi