Publisher's Synopsis
a collection of representative songs from Helen Crane's late period - all are English: three groupings - "Love Poems of Marie von Vorst", "Old English Songs" featuring pre-nineteenth century poets; texts by Shakespeare, Campion, Dekker, Robert Herrick; then, "Newer English Songs" encompassing poets nineteenth century to time of composition: about 1923. poetic texts by W.B. Yeats, Francis Thompson, Robert Burns, William Wordsworth Austin Dobson, William Watson & Katherine Hinkson. The pieces are written with the medium voice in mind, with a range between middle C and F an octave and a fourth above. Early pieces have a Wolf - ian lyricism and the latter are more adventuresome harmonically but remain tonal and very accessible.
