Sing me the Songs I Love! 

An anthology of English pre-Victorian song from about 1830, in two volumes (Books 1 and 2)

with piano accompaniment

Ten songs in each of the two books, selected and reproduced in facsimiles of the original and early editions, with a preface by Brian Jeffery

These splendid songs come from a generation mostly slightly before Queen Victoria, who came to the throne in 1837.  Immensely singable, full of life and fine melodies, they are in my opinion less maudlin than what is commonly thought of as "Victorian song".  "Sing me the Songs I Love!" is a set of two books which I published in 2000, each containing ten early nineteenth century English songs for voice and piano, in reprints of the original editions.

As far as I know, this is the only collection currently available to be devoted solely to them.  The songs in these two books have piano accompaniments, and they are the same kind of songs (some are the same ones) as are in the older Tecla collection of English Romantic Songs and Ballads which were for voice with guitar accompaniment. For more about their background, see the Introduction to "English Romantic Songs and Ballads".  They are reproduced here as reprints of the first and early editions in my own collection.

Cloth edition:
Volume 1: TECLA 0383: $66.00 or 32.00 pounds sterling
Volume 2: TECLA 0384: $66.00 or 32.00 pounds sterling

Ordering

Copyright 1999 by Tecla Editions. Errors and omissions excepted.