This is among the most widely used teaching repertoire for singers in the US. Over 30 songs in each book, including American and British art songs, folk song arrangements, sacred songs, and a sampling of beginning songs in German, Italian, Spanish, and French. There is a completely different song selection for each voice type.
Contents:
- Across the Western Ocean (Dougherty)
- The Bells of Clermont Town (Goodhart)
- The Blind Ploughman (Clarke)
- Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind (Quilter)
- Blow High, Blow Low (Dibdin)
- Create in me a Clean Heart (Mueller)
- Encantadora Maria (Kilenyi)
- False Phillis
- The Friar of Orders Gray (Shield)
- Hor'Ich Das Liedchen Klingen (Schumann)
- Internezzo (Schumann)
- Jagdlied (Mendelssohn)
- The Jolly Roger (Roberston)
- The King of Love My Shepherd Is (Gounod)
- La Paloma Blanca (Kilenyi)
- Le Secret (Faure)
- Leave Me, Loathsome Light (Handel)
- Let us Break Bread Together (Myers)
- Lord, I Want to be Christian (Payne)
- Lungi Dal Caro Bene (Sarti)
- Next, Winter Comes Slowly (Purcell)
- O Mistress Mine (Quilter)
- On the Road to Mandalay (Speaks)
- The Rovin' Gambler (Niles)
- The Sea (MacDowell)
- Sea Moods (Tyson)
- Shenandoah (Dougherty)
- The Splendour Falls (Walthew)
- Tally-Ho! (Leoni)
- There Was a Mighty Monarch (van Beethoven)
- Why So Pale and Wan (Arne)
- Widmung (Franz)