Review: Songs and Lessons for the Beginning Singer introduces foundational singing skills through engaging, age-appropriate repertoire for developing voices. Familiar and original songs support healthy vocal coordination and early musical understanding. Each lesson invites singers to explore technique through guided activities, building awareness of breath, tone, and expression while fostering curiosity and confidence. Piano accompaniment tracks and performances by child singers provide authentic, relatable models. Each song includes: - Activity-based lessons for technique exploration - Lyric page - Vocal lead sheet with words and melody - Piano/vocal score This book also includes access to audio tracks online for download or streaming of recorded performances by child singers and accompaniments for practice.

Songlist: Bingo, Catch A Falling Star, Cleaning!, Come On Get Happy, Do-Re-Mi, Growl And Howl, I Am A Robot, I Like To Sing My ABC's, Lavender's Blue, My Country, 'Tis Of Thee (America)

22738b | Book/Online Audio | $24.95 |

Review: Songs and Lessons for the Progressing Singer builds on foundational skills while guiding singers toward greater coordination, independence, and expression. Carefully selected repertoire, spanning familiar, newly composed, pop, and culturally diverse music, supports developing voices while introducing new musical and technical ideas that encourage cross-training of the voice. Using a spiraling approach, core skills are revisited and expanded, helping singers move from discovery to confident, consistent singing. Piano accompaniment tracks and performances by child singers provide realistic, relatable models. Each song includes: - Activity-based lessons for continued technical development - A notated vocal warm-up connected to each song - Piano/vocal score - Audio tracks available for download or streaming: - Recorded performances by child singers - Recorded accompaniments for practice

Songlist: Curiosity, Feelings, In Our Own Backyard, Jack Was Every Inch A Sailor, Just Passing By, Las Mananitas, Martin Luther King's Dream, Navrai Majhi, Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Rockin' Robin, Simple Gifts, The Ugly-Bug Ball, When Johnny Comes Marching Home

22730b | Book/Online Audio | $24.95 |

Review: Vocal anthologies have been a staple in voice studios for many years, providing teachers and students with a wide array of repertoire at a reasonable cost. Teachers eagerly stocked their studios with these multi-composer volumes as well as those of the more popular single composers such as Schubert, Schumann, Debussy, Fauré, etc. There is a plethora of anthologies devoted to the Arie antiche, German lieder, French mélodie, and American art song. Missing from this landscape was an anthology with multiple composers devoted to the art songs of Black composers. Acknowledging that there have always been some anthologies by Black composers devoted to single composers of art songs, song cycles, and spirituals; there have been relatively few collections that offer singers a variety of songs by different Black composers. This new collection Black Composers in Art Song is designed with the studio teacher in mind. Its appealing repertoire meets technical, linguistic, and interpretive goals to make it easier for teachers to expand the musical canon they teach to include works by Black composers. The composers selected represent the United States, England and France and both male (9) and female (5) composers. The fourteen selected songs span the 18th to 21st centuries and utilize three of the singing languages (English, German, French and French creole). The book includes a thorough introduction along with composer bios. Songs include: The Butterfly upon the Sky (Jeremiah Evans) - Dans Un Bois Solitaire (Joseph Bologne) - Dream Variations (Richard Thompson) - Fais Do Do (Camille Nickerson) - Grief (William Grant Still) - Herz, Mein Herz, Sei Nicht Beklommen (Marques Garrett) - Hold Fast to Dreams (Forence Price) - Homesick Blues (Leslie Adams) - I Want to Die While You Love Me (Undine Smith Moore) - In the Springtime (Betty Jackson King) - Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal (Harry T. Burleigh) - Since You Went Away (J. Rosamond Johnson) - Thou Art the Soul of a Summer's Day (Adolphus Hailstork) - What Lips My Lips Have Kissed (Margaret Bonds) - The Willow Song (Samuel Coleridge-Taylor).

Songlist: The Butterfly Upon The Sky, Dans Un Bois Solitaire, Dream Variations, Fais Do Do, Grief, Herz, Mein Herz, Sei Nicht Beklommen, Hold Fast To Dreams, Homesick Blues, I Want To Die While You Love Me, In The Springtime, Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal, Since You Went Away, Thou Art The Soul Of A Summer's Day, What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, The Willow Song

Voicing: High

22731b | High Voice and Piano | $19.95 |