Review (PDF) Songs Of Travel: Low Voice New Edition With Online Audio Of Piano Accompaniments

                
              
Review (PDF) 
Songs Of Travel: Low Voice New Edition With Online Audio Of Piano Accompaniments
(Boosey & Hawkes Voice). A new, easier to read music engraving of these perennial voice studio favorites with recorded audio accompaniment for practice and historical introduction.
Paperback: 40 pages
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes; Pap/Psc edition (August 1, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1480386472
ISBN-13: 978-1480386471
Product Dimensions:  9 x 0.1 x 12 inches
Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:  4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #150,678 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)   #1 in Books > Humor & Entertainment > Sheet Music & Scores > Composers > Vaughan-williams   #33 in Books > Humor & Entertainment > Sheet Music & Scores > Historical Period > Late Romantic   #201 in Books > Humor & Entertainment > Sheet Music & Scores > Forms & Genres > Lieder & Art Songs
This is my very favorite song cycle, so I purchased this even though the music is available for free (legally) on IMSLP. I wanted to have an actual published book for myself, and I was not disappointed; the sheet music itself is perfectly fine, perfectly readable, exactly what you'd expect in a quality sheet music purchase. If I were reviewing the sheet music as a standalone product, it would get a very easy five stars.HOWEVER, if you are buying this with the intention to use the rehearsal tracks provided, DO NOT DO IT. The rehearsal tracks that come with this are not helpful in the slightest. The pianist takes too many liberties with tempo alterations, even in places where there are no instructions in the music to do so. It's IMPOSSIBLE to rehearse effectively with these tracks. Hal Leonard presumably paid an actual professional pianist to record this for them, but they would have saved money and provided a better product by inputting the notes into a program like Finale and offering a computerized, mechanical playback of the accompaniment. I cannot stress enough just how USELESS the provided tracks are to anyone learning this music. Do NOT count on them if you want to learn and perform this song cycle.
The new engraving for this edition is crisper and easier to read than the old one, and the layout of at least one song has been tweaked so that the page turn is in a less awkward spot. The cover is more generic and stark, but on the other hand it also looks professional, and I can live with it.The music itself gets five stars plus. As an adult who is still a relative newbie to vocal performance, and who has much to learn regarding expression particularly, this has been a wonderful and rewarding bit of baritone repertoire to work on. It may take a while, but I eagerly look forward to the day when I'm able to perform the whole song cycle at once.
Really great song cycle! I would love to see a version with a learning style of piano recordings. The recordings provided are much more suited for performance, and in a real life situation, you would most likely have a live pianist to work with. In the provided recordings, there is a lot of unpredictable rubato that a singer may not wish to practice with. I think a straight forward, generic performance of the piano accompaniment would be very beneficial addition.
Purchased as a gift for a teenager. He has enjoyed the book and uses it frequently when practicing his keyboard.
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