| Edition |
8th ed. |
| Description |
xi, 305 pages : illustration ; 28 cm |
| Note |
Includes 1 folded keyboard chart and 1"Chord builder/Scale builder." |
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"Songs for group singing": melody line only, with chord symbols; remaining songs for voice and piano. |
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Earlier editions by Van A. Christy. |
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Includes indexes. |
| Contents |
Freedom to sing -- Breath and the body -- Free tone -- Changing resonances in your voice -- Preparing a song -- Understanding your vocal instrument -- Vowels and vocal color -- Consonants and clarity -- Double and triple vowels -- Performing a song -- Extending your voice -- A vocabulary for music -- -- |
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Song contents: -- 15 songs for group singing -- America the beautiful -- Auld lang syne -- Christmas is coming : round -- De colores -- Dona nobis pacem : round -- Do-re-mi -- Greeting song -- Hinay ma tov : round -- Let there be peace on earth -- Scarborough Fair -- Sing and rejoice : round -- The star-spangled banner -- This little light of mine -- Viva la musica! : round -- -- 12 traditional songs. -- All the notes of all the earth -- Auprès de ma blonde -- Carmela -- Cielito lindo -- Deep river -- Down by the Sally Gardens -- Drink to me only -- Love will find out the way -- Sakura, sakura -- The turtle dove -- Valencianita -- -- 24 art songs and arias. -- Come again / J. Dowland -- Since first I saw your face / T. Ford -- The silver swan / O. Gibbons -- The angler's song / H. Lawes -- Dolce scherza / G. Perti -- Io le dirò che l'amo / G.F. Handel -- Blow, blow, thou winter wind / T. Arne -- Spring song = Bald wehen uns des Frühlings Lüfte / J. Haydn -- Who is Sylvia? / F. Schubert -- Beautiful dreamer / S. Foster -- Santa Lucia / T. Cottrau -- Willow, tit-willow / A. Sullivan -- Star-eyes / R. Stenhammar -- The sky above the roof / R. Vaughan Williams -- By the sea / R. Quilter -- Serenade / G. Branscombe -- Calm at sea = Calma di mare / G. Recli -- The night has a thousand eyes / A. Foote -- Fancy / F. Poulenc -- The Lord has a child / W. Schuman -- To a brown girl, dead / M. Bonds -- These hills / C. Gibson -- Lo, how a rose / H. Huffman -- Sunshine again / L. Spevacek -- -- 19 musical theater songs and popular song classics. -- It don't mean a thing / D. Ellington -- The Goldwyn follies. Love is here to stay / G. Gershwin -- The wizard of Oz. Over the rainbow / H. Arlen -- Guys and dolls. I'll know / F. Loesser -- Annie get your gun. They say it's wonderful / I. Berlin -- The king and I. I whistle a happy tune / R. Rodgers -- Saturday night. All for you / S. Sondheim -- West Side story. One hand, one heart / L. Bernstein -- Sabor a mí / A. Carrilo -- The fantasticks. Soon it's gonna rain / H. Schmidt -- Oliver. Consider yourself / L. Bart -- Do re mi. Make someone happy / J. Styne -- In my life / Lennon and McCartney -- You're a good man, Charlie Brown. Happiness / C. Gesner -- A chorus line. What I did for love / M. Hamlisch -- Jekyll and Hyde. Once upon a dream / F. Wildhorn -- Whistle down the wind / A. Lloyd Webber -- Thoroughly modern Millie. I turned the corner / J. Tesori. |
| Subject |
Singing -- Methods.
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Singing. |
| Genre/Form |
Methods (Music)
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| Subject |
Songs -- Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.)
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Songs -- Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.) |
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Songs with piano.
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Songs with piano. |
| Genre/Form |
Songs with piano.
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| Added Author |
Christy, Van A. (Van Ambrose), 1900-1990.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Paton, John Glenn. Foundations in singing. 8th ed. New York : McGraw-Hill, c2006 (OCoLC)655659761 |
| ISBN |
0072989793 alkaline paper |
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9780072989793 alkaline paper |
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9780073212753 |
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007321275X |
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