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• *Welcome to the New Edition
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Getting Started
• Part One: The First Steps to Singing Easily
• Chapter One: Healthy Singing
• Chapter Two: Preparing to Sing
• Chapter Three: Selecting Music to Sing
• Chapter Four: Learning Music Efficiently
• Chapter Five: Practice Habits
• Chapter Six: Performing
• Part Two: Improvisations and Songs
• Improvisation
• *Dance Your Dream Come True
• *Circle of Friends
• Ballad (Major Key)
• Swingin' in Minor Blues
• Traditional Songs, World Songs, and Rounds
• There's Music in the Air (America)
• My Country 'Tis of Thee (America)
• Music Alone Shall Live (Germany)
• Oh, How Lovely Is the Evening (Germany)
• Babylon (America)
• Dona nobis pacem (Latin)
• Ah, Poor Bird (America)
• Shalom, chaverim (Israel)
• Ah, Poor Bird/Shalom (America/Israel)
• Three Alleluia Rounds
• Shenandoah (America)
• *The House of the Rising Sun (America)
• Scarborough Fair (England)
• Danny Boy (Ireland/England)
• The Water Is Wide (England)
• Salley Gardens (Ireland)
• *Suo-gân (Wales)
• *Red Is the Rose (Ireland)
• *Flor, blanca flor (Mexico)
• Niño precioso (Nicaragua)
• Santa Lucia (Italy)
• *L'hirondelle messagère (Canada)
• Dubinushka (Russia)
• Dance of Youth (China)
• Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit (America)
• Amazing Grace (America)
• *Wayfaring Stranger (America)
• *I've Got Peace Like a River (America)
• How Can I Keep from Singing? (America)
• *America the Beautiful (America)
• *The Star-Spangled Banner (America)
• *O Canada! (Canada)
• Popular Songs
• *Someone Like You, from Jekyll & Hyde (Bricusse/Wildhorn)
• I Move On, from Chicago (Kander/Ebb)
• *Anything You Can Do (duet), from Annie Get Your Gun (Berlin)
• Wand'rin' Star, from Paint Your Wagon (Lerner/Loewe)
• Goodnight, My Someone, from The Music Man (Willson)
• *Ten Minutes Ago (duet/solo), from Cinderella (Rodgers/Hammerstein)
• No Other Love, from Me and Juliet (Rodgers/Hammerstein)
• Where is Love?, from Oliver! (Bart)
• Over the Rainbow, from The Wizard of Oz (Harburg/Arlen)
• Sing!, from Sesame Street (Raposo)
• Somewhere Out There (duet), from An American Tail (Horner/Mann/Weill)
• A Time for Us/Un giorno per noi, from Romeo and Juliet (Kusik/Snyder/Rota)
• *You Raise Me Up (Graham/Løvland)
• *Be Who You Were Born to Be (Drayton)
• *True Colors (Steinberg/Kelly)
• *Don't Get Around Much Anymore (Russell/Ellington)
• Blue Skies (Berlin)
• When I Fall in Love (Heyman/Young)
• They Can't Take That Away from Me (Gershwin)
• Skylark (Mercer/Carmichael)
• Art Songs and Arias
• Come Again, Sweet Love (Dowland 1563–1626)
• The Angler's Song (duet) (Lawes 1596–1662)
• Donzelle, fuggite (Cavalli 1602–1676)
• *Selve amiche, ombrose piante (Caldara 1670–1736)
• *Star vicino (Anonymous, Seventeenth Century)
• *Lungi (Tosti 1846–1916)
• He Shall Feed His Flock (Handel 1685–1759)
• *Ich liebe dich (Beethoven 1770–1827)
• If You've Only Got a Moustache (Foster 1826–1864)
• *O Mistress Mine (Stanford 1852–1924)
• El majo timido (Granados 1867–1916)
• Evening Prayer (duet), from Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck 1854–1921)
• Summertime, from Porgy and Bess (Gershwin 1898–1937)
• *Oh, better far to live and die, from The Pirates of Penzance (Gilbert/Sullivan)
• *The sun, whose rays, from The Mikado (Gilbert/ Sullivan)
• *Toi, le coeur de la rose (Air de l'enfant) (Ravel 1875–1937)
• The Hippopotamus (Flanders/Swann)
• *Come Ready and See Me (Hundley, b. 1931)
• Part Three: How the Voice Works
• Chapter Seven: Muscles and Physical Alignment
• Chapter Eight: Breathing
• Chapter Nine: Making Sound
• Chapter Ten: Voice Quality and Resonance
• Chapter Eleven: Articulation and Expression
• Chapter Twelve: Maintaining a Healthy Voice
• Epilogue
• *Appendix A: What's Your Singing IQ?
• Appendix B: Worksheet for Preparing the Text of Your Song
• Appendix C: Introduction to IPA: Pronunciation of Vowels and Consonants
• Appendix D: Additional Vocal Exercises
• Appendix E: Making Sense of a Music Manuscript
• Further Reading and Print Resources
• Recommended Websites
• Index
• The following traditional/art songs from the first edition remain available on the student website:
• The Frog in the Bog (Canada)
• Gaudeamus Igitur (Germany)
• Banana Boat Song (Day-O) (Jamaica)
• Ego Sum Pauper (Latin)
• Civil War Medley (America)
• The Lark in the Clear Air (Ireland)
• Westryn Wynde (England)
• Paun I Kolo (Bosnia)
• Ah! si mon moine voulait danser! (Canada)
• Mi caballo blanco (Chile)
• My Lord, What a Mornin'! (America)
• Ombra mai fù (Handel 1685–1759)
• Auf Flügeln des Gesanges (Mendelssohn 1809–1847)
• Bitte (Franz (1815–1892)
• Ici-bas (Fauré 1845–1924)
• Gentle Annie (Foster 1826–1864)
• Modern Major-General (Gilbert/ Sullivan)