Adventures in Singing A Process for Exploring, Discovering, and Developing Vocal Potential

Preface About the Author Chapter 1- Preparing for the Journey Chapter 2 - Getting Started Chapter 3 - Expanding the Mind Chapter 4 - Energizing the Body Chapter 5 - Developing Breath Management Chapter 6 - Producing Tone Chapter 7 - Connecting Voice Levels Chapter 8 - Optimizing Tone Quality Chapter 9 - Voicing Vowels and Consonants Chapter 10 - Integrating the Vocal Process Chapter 11 - Learning a Song Chapter 12 - Performing a Song Song Anthology Contents 1 Background Information 2 Group Songs Dona Nobis Pacem (Traditional) Let us Sing Together (Czech) Make New Friends (American) Music Alone Shall Live (German) O How Lovely is the Evening (Traditional) Hail to Music (American/Ware) Row, Row, Row Your Boat (Traditional) Shalom Chaverim (Palestinian) Vive L' Amour (French) We Are Singing (American/Ware) 3 Folk Songs and Spirituals All Through the Night (Welsh) Medium Key - G Amazing Grace (English/American) Medium Key - F(or acapella) Balm in Gilead (African/American) Medium Key - F ( or acapella) Con que la Lavare (Spanish) Medium Key -dm Down in the Valley (American) Medium Key - F ( or acapella) Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes (Old English) Medium Key - D Greensleeves (Old English) Medium Key - G Long Time Ago (American) Low Key- F (or acapella) Nino precioso (Nicaraguan) Medium Key - F O Shenandoah (American) Medium Key-F (or acapella) Over The Meadows (Czech) Medium Key - Ab Simple Gifts (American Shaker) Medium Key - F ( or acapella) Sometimes I feel like a Motherless Child (African/American) Medium Key - F (or acapella) The Happy Singer (American/Ware) Medium Key - E The Water is Wide (English) Medium Key - G ( or acapella) 4 Art Songs and Arias A Memory (R. Ganz) Medium/ High Key - F An die Musik (F. Schubert) Medium Key - C Bist du bei mir (attr. To J.S. Bach) Medium Key - Bb Come Again, Sweet Love (J. Dowland) Medium Key - F Dream Valley (R. Quilter) Medium Key - F; Low Key -D Du Bist wie eine Blume (R. Schumann) Medium Key - F Flocks Are Sporting (H. Carey) Medium/High Key - F Heavenly Grass (P. Bowles) Medium/High- em I Attempt Love's Sickness to Fly (H. Purcell) Ich Lliebe dich (L.van Beethoven) If Music be the Food of Love (H. Purcell) Infant Joy (D.E. Thomas) It Was a Lover and His Lass (T. Morely) It's All I Have to Bring (E. Bacon) Lascia ch'io pianga (G. F. Handel) Le Charme (E. Chausson) My Lovely Celia (G. Munro) Nel cor piu non mi sento (G. Paisello) Non lo diro col labbro (G. F. Handle) Now is the Month of Maying (T. Morley) Oh, Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Me (G.F. Handel) Preach not Me Your Musty Rules (T.A. Arne) Ridente la calma (W.A. Mozart) Romance (C. Debussy) Seligkeit (F. Schubert) Star vicino (attr. to S. Rosa) The Call (R. Vaughan Williams) The Daisies (S. Barber) The Pasture (C. Naginsky) Toglietemi la vita ancor (A. Scarlatti) Vaga luna (V. Bellini) Weep You No More Sad Fountains (R. Quilter) 5 Novelty Songs Sweet Love Suite 1 Genteel Love 2 Solemn Love 3 Fickle Love 4 Wholesome Love 6 Musical Theater Songs Almost Like Being in Love (Lowne/Learner) Any Dream Will Do (Webber) On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (Lane/Learner) Oh What A Beautiful Morning (Rodgers/Hammerstein) Put On a Happy Face (Strouse/Adams) 'S Wonderful (G. Gershwin/I. Gershwin) Till There Was You (Willson) Tipsy Song (Offenbach) Try to Remember (Schmidt/Jones) Website (www.mhhe.com/ware) Glossary Bibliography IndexWare, Clifton is the author of 'Adventures in Singing A Process for Exploring, Discovering, and Developing Vocal Potential', published 2004 under ISBN 9780072978407 and ISBN 0072978406.