Note: The Faces of Love song books can be ordered directly from G. Schirmer. (The pictures above are also links.)
A recording of the same name is available.
These books feature songs for soprano, mezzo-soprano, countertenor and baritone.
THE FACES OF LOVE Song Collections (1999)
Book One (Soprano)
HL #50483634
The Faces of Love (Emily Dickinson)
1. I shall not live in vain
2. As well as Jesus?
3. If you were coming in the Fall
4. It makes no difference abroad
5. At last, to be identified!
Natural Selection (Gini Savage)
1. Creation
2. Animal Passion
3. Alas! Alack!
4. Indian Summer – Blue
5. Joy Alone (Connection)
Eve-Song (Philip Littell)
1. My Name
2. Even
3. Good
4. Listen
5. Snake
6. Woe To Man
7. The Wound
8. The Farm
THE FACES OF LOVE Song Collections (1999)
Book Two (Mezzo-Soprano)
HL #50483635
Paper Wings (Frederica von Stade)
1. Bedtime Story
2. Paper Wings
3. Mitten Smitten
4. A Route to the Sky
Songs to the Moon (Vachel Lindsay)
1. Once More – To Gloriana
2. Euclid
3. The Haughty Snail King
4. What the Rattlesnake Said
5. The Moon’s the North-Wind’s Cooky
6. What the Scarecrow Said
7. What the Gray-Winged Fairy Said
8. Yet Gentle Will the Griffin Be
Of Gods and Cats (Gavin Geoffrey Dillard)
1. In the Beginning
2. Once Upon a Universe
To Say Before Going to Sleep (Rilke)
White in the Moon (Housman)
Sophie’s Song (von Stade)
THE FACES OF LOVE Song Collections (1999)
Book Three (Mezzo-Soprano, Countertenor, Baritone)
HL #50483636
Encountertenor (John Hall)
1. Countertenor’s Conundrum
2. The Trouble With Trebles In Trousers
3. A Gift To Share
Thoughts Unspoken (John Hall)
1. A Learning Experience Over Coffee
2. You Enter My Thoughts
3. To Speak of Love
4. Unspoken Thoughts at Bedtime
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed (Millay)
My True Love Hath My Heart (Sidney)
Folk Songs
He’s Gone Away
Barb’ry Allen
The Leather Winged Bat
Danny Boy
Away in a Manger
Collections are published Songbooks or books of compositions. The songs and arias are often found individually in Recordings as well as Compositions. One or more recordings have been made. (Here is a Search for them.) Score is available from Schirmer/Hal Leonard or Bill Holab Music. Score(s) available from G. Schirmer/Hal Leonard.
