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The Language of Song

The Language of Song is a valuable new resource for singing teachers, and it is tremendous acheivement for the editors and the language consultants. I do hope that the sales will convince music publishers that singing teachers will buy new products that are relevant, well researched and well produced. It is worth noticing that practising singing teachers generated this project...One had almost begun to despair about the paucity of really good material for singers compared with the quality and quantity of methods and repertoire music available to piano teachers. Perhaps at last publishers...realise that there is an eager market amongst singing teachers for the right product.

Singing (AUOTOS) No. 51 Winter 2006

The advanced editions (three volumes for low, medium and high voices) of this excellent series provide a wealth of classic repertoire, selected and presented to develop the skills needed to sing in a foreign language, and will doubtless prove a prime resource for teacher and students.
Each song comes with a detailed pronunciation guide (using the International Phonetic Alphabet) and background information on the song. The CDs provide a spoken text read by a native speaker as well as a recording of each song's accompaniment on piano (by Iain Farrington).
The Association of Teachers of Singing are quoted in the blurb for these editions as saying that singing teachers have been waiting for a publication of this nature for a very long time and that they offer the best introduction to singing in other languages that it had come across. Which is certainly high praise.
That ends the details. The reason these books that the Book of the Month slot is that the precision in every aspect of this book - the most valuable publications for the serious singer for some time - simply ooze with care and attention. The purpose is functional - aimed squarely at the highest level of education, but the pages carry a lot of the emotion of the editors, as well as that of the composers. Put simply: quite superb editions.

MiPro, December 2008

 

 
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