Principally songs and opera excerpts, for voice and piano.
Audio recordings are available online with access code on title page and include diction lessonsand piano accompaniments by Laura Ward.
Biographical and program notes precede each song.
English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish words; also printed as texts with English translations preceding each song.
Staff notation.
Fair, if you expect admiring / Thomas Campion -- What if I never speed? / John Dowland -- The sea / Edward MacDowell -- If music be the food of love ; We sing to him / Henry Purcell -- Come away, death ; Now sleeps the crimson petal ; Weep you no more / Roger Quilter -- Linden Lea ; The vagabond / Ralph Vaughan Williams -- Le secret ; Seule! / Gabriel Fauré -- Bois épais / Jean-Baptiste Lully -- Plaisir d'amour / Johann-Paul Martini -- Abendempfindung / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Der Doppelgänger ; Meeres Stille / Franz Schubert -- Die beiden Grenadiere ; Du bist wie eine Blume / Robert Schumann -- Zueignung / Richard Strauss -- Vaga luna, che inargenti / Vincenzo Bellini -- Vacio ben spesso cangiando loco / Giovanni Bononcini -- Perchè dolce, caro bene / Stefano Donaudy -- Caldi sospiri / Raffaello Rontani -- Asturiana / Manuel de Falla -- La mi sola, Laureola / Fernando Obradors -- Die Zauberflöte. In diesen heil'gen Hallen / La Bohème. Vecchia zimarra, senti / Giacomo Puccini -- The pirates of Penzance. The policeman's song / Arthur Sullivan -- Messa di Gloria. Crucifixus / Giacomo Puccini