Contents
- Part I The First Steps to Singing Easily
- Chapter 1 Healthy Singing
- Chapter 2 Preparing to Sing
- Chapter 3 Selecting Music to Sing
- Chapter 4 Learning Music Efficiently
- Chapter 5 Practice Habits
- Chapter 6 Performing
- Part II Improvisations and Songs
- Improvisation
- Ballad (Major Key)
- Swingin’ in Minor Blues
- Background and Performance Notes
- Patriotic Songs, Unison Songs, and Rounds
- My Country ’Tis of Thee (Smith/Carey)
- America the Beautiful (Bates/Ward)
- There’s Music in the Air
- The Frog in the Bog
- Gaudeamus Igitur
- Banana Boat Song (Day-O)
- Music Alone Shall Live
- Oh, How Lovely Is the Evening
- Babylon (William Billings)
- Dona Nobis Pacem
- Ego Sum Pauper
- Ah, Poor Bird
- Shalom, Chaverim
- Ah, Poor Bird/Shalom (duet)
- Three Alleluia Rounds (Mozart/Boyce)
- Folk Songs, Spirituals, and Hymns
- Shenandoah (America)
- Scarborough Fair (England)
- Danny Boy (England/Ireland)
- Civil War Medley (America)
- The Water Is Wide ("Waly, Waly") (England)
- The Lark in the Clear Air (Ireland)
- Salley Gardens (Ireland)
- Westryn Wynde (England)
- Santa Lucia (Italy)
- Paun I Kolo (Bosnia)
- Ah! si mon moine voulait danser! (Canada)
- Niño precioso (Nicaragua)
- Mi caballo blanco (Chile)
- Dubinushka (Russia)
- Dance of Youth (China)
- My Lord, What a Mornin’! (America)
- Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit (America)
- Amazing Grace (J. Newton) (America)
- How Can I Keep from Singing? (America)
- Theater, Film, and Television Songs
- I Move On, from Chicago (Kander / Ebb)
- Wand’rin’ Star, from Paint Your Wagon (Loewe/Lerner)
- Goodnight, My Someone, from The Music Man (Willson)
- No Other Love, from Me and Juliet (Rodgers/Hammerstein)
- I Got the Sun in the Morning, from Annie Get Your Gun (Berlin)
- Where Is Love? from Oliver! (Bart)
- Over the Rainbow, from The Wizard of Oz (high and low keys) (Arlen)
- Sing!, from Sesame Street (Raposo)
- Somewhere Out There (duet), from An American Tail (Horner/Mann/Weill)
- A Time for Us, Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet (Rota)
- Popular and Jazz Standards
- Blue Skies (Berlin)
- When I Fall in Love (Heyman/Young)
- They Can’t Take That Away from Me (Gershwin)
- Skylark (Carmichael)
- Night and Day (Porter)
- God Bless’ the Child (Holliday)
- Art Songs and Arias
- Come Again, Sweet Love (Dowland 1563–1626)
- The Angler’s Song (duet) (Lawes 1595–1662)
- Donzelle, fuggite (Cavalli 1602–1676)
- He Shall Feed His Flock (Handel 1685–1759)
- Ombra mai fù, from Serse (high and low keys) (Handel 1685–1759)
- Auf Flügeln des Gesanges (Mendelssohn 1809–1847)
- Bitte (Franz 1815–1892)
- Ici-bas (Fauré 1845–1924)
- Gentle Annie (Foster 1826–1864)
- If You’ve Only Got a Moustache (Foster 1826–1864)
- El majo timido (Granados 1867–1916)
- Con amores, la mi madre (Obradors 1897–1945)
- Evening Prayer (duet), from Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck 1854–1921)
- Summertime (high and low keys), from Porgy and Bess (Gershwin 1898–1937)
- Modern Major-General (solo/chorus), from Pirates of Penzance (Gilbert & Sullivan)
- Into the Night (Edwards 1887–1974)
- The Hippopotamus (Flanders & Swann)
- I Never Knew (Rorem, b. 1923)
- Part III How the Voice Works
- Chapter 7 Muscles and Physical Alignment
- Chapter 8 Breathing
- Chapter 9 Making Sound
- Chapter 10 Voice Quality and Resonance
- Chapter 11 Articulation and Expression
- Chapter 12 Maintaining a Healthy Voice
- Epilogue
- Appendix A Worksheet for Preparing the Text of Your Song
- Appendix B Introduction to IPA: Pronunciation of Vowels and Consonants
- Appendix C Additional Vocal Exercises
- Appendix D Making Sense of a Music Manuscript
- Appendix E Classification of Songs
- Further Reading
- Recommended Web sites
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