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Arrangements
for voice(s)
 and guitar


A North Country Maid (The Oak and the Ash)

 (simple arrangement for alto and guitar)


An die Laute (Schubert)

 (alto (or baritone), guitar)


Après un Rêve (Gabriel Fauré)

Apres un reve

 (alto or mezzo soprano and guitar)



The Ash Grove

  (alto, tenor, guitar chords - versions in F major and E major)

and

  (soprano, alto, guitar chords - version in B flat)




The ballad of Green Broom

 (simple arrangement for alto or tenor and guitar)



Believe me if all those endearing young charms (Thomas Moore)

 (alto and guitar)


Beautiful Dreamer (Stephen Foster)

 (simple arrangement for alto and guitar)



Bobby Shafto

 (alto, guitar)



Brennan on the Moor

 (simple arrangement for alto and guitar)



Byrd’s Cradle song

 (alto, guitar)



Cats Duet (Rossini, Weyse, Pearsall arr DWS)

 (2 altos and guitar)




Come Again (by John Dowland)

 (arranged for medium voice and guitar)




Come into the Garden, Maud (Balfe)

 (alto, guitar)



Dashing away with the smoothing iron

 (simple arrangement for alto and guitar)



Dido’s Lament (Purcell)

 (alto, guitar)



Du bist die Ruh (Schubert)

  (alto or baritone and guitar)



Flow not so fast ye fountains (Dowland)

 (alto, guitar and optional melody instrument)



Heidenröslein (Schubert)

  (alto or baritone and guitar)



Ich danke dem Herrn (Schütz)

  (alto, guitar)



If my complaints (Dowland)

 (alto, guitar)



I have a bonnet (folk song arrangement)

  (alto, guitar)


It was a lover and his lass (Thomas Morley)

 (alto or mezzo soprano, guitar)





Let now the harp and voice unite

 (simple arrangement for alto and guitar)




Love’s God is a boy (Robert Jones)

 (alto, guitar)




Madonna il tuo bel viso (Philippe Verdelot)

 (alto voice and guitar - with additional English singing translation)




The Mallow Fling

  (simple arrangement for alto (or baritone) and guitar)




Music for a While (Henry Purcell)

 (alto, guitar)



Nacht und Träume (Heil’ge Nacht) (Schubert)

 (alto, guitar)




Ten Nursery Rhymes (very simple arrangements)

 (voice and guitar chord-names - each arranged for high, medium and low voice)

 (The nursery rhymes are: Here we go gathering nuts in May (also known as Here we go round the mulberry bush),     Hot cross buns, hey diddle diddle, Lavender's blue, The North Wind doth blow, Tom Tom the piper's son,    Johnny's so long at the fair, Tom he was a piper's son (different song!), Humpty Dumpty and Pop goes the weasel.)



Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt (Tchaikovsky)

  (alto, guitar)



Nymphs and Shepherds (Purcell)

  (alto, guitar)


Rest Sweet Nymphs (Pilkington)

  (alto or baritone, guitar)



Rêvé-je (song by Bataille) reve-je

 (alto and guitar or mezzo and guitar - also with English singing translation)



Rossignol du bois sauvage

 (alto and guitar)





Rossignol du bois sauvage

 (alto, recorder or flute and guitar)



Sapphic Ode (Brahms)

 (alto, guitar - including English singing translation)





Si La Noche Hace Oscura (Diego Pisador)

 (alto, guitar)



Ständchen (Schubert)

 (alto (or baritone), guitar)



Sweet, stay awhile (Dowland)

 (alto, guitar)



Sweet was the song (John Attey)

 ([mezzo] soprano and guitar)




Taliesin’s Prophecy

 (low alto or high tenor, guitar)




The Lass of Richmond Hill

 (simple arrangement for alto and guitar)





The Meeting of the Waters

  (voice and guitar)


To the Maypole haste away

 (simple arrangement for alto and guitar)




Up I arose in verno tempore (arrangement)

  (alto, guitar)



Wenn der Pott aber nu ein Loch hat (German folk song - ancestor of “There’s a hole in my bucket”)

 (alto, bass, guitar

   or soprano, tenor, guitar)




What can we poor females do? (H Purcell)

     (arranged for alto, tenor and guitar)


What can we poor females do? (H Purcell)

     (arranged for soprano, alto and 2 guitars)



What shall I do to show how much I love her

 (Purcell)

 (alto, guitar)




When Laura smiles (arrangement)

 (alto (or mezzo or baritone) and guitar - versions in D major and E major)





The Willow Song (anon arr DWS)

  (tenor or alto and guitar)



With my love my life was nestled (Morley)

 (alto, guitar)




See also:


Yiddish folk songs


German folk songs


Nursery rhymes