Product Description

These popular publications are compiled especially for the tastes and abilities of the talented teenage singer/actor. Songs span from classic stage musicals, to "the golden age of Hollywood," to the stage and cinema of the 1980s and '90s. Indispensible for teaching young singers, these book/CD packs also include notes on each selection.The Young Women's Edition includes 33 songs: Beauty and the Beast * Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend * Honey Bun * I Could Have Danced All Night * I Enjoy Being a Girl * I Have Confidence * Many a New Day * Memory * My Favorite Things * On My Own * Part of Your World * Sisters * Think of Me * Wouldn't It Be Loverly * and more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13134 in Books
• Brand: Hal Leonard
• Published on: 2001-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Customer Reviews

Great for young singers
I am a voice teacher and I have used this book (and the young men's edition) extensively. The CD accompaniments are very well done and extremely helpful. My only criticism is that some of the songs have written repeats (e.g. "In My Own Little Corner"), but the recorded accompaniment only plays one verse and then goes directly to the second ending. Also, some songs (e.g. "Simple Joys of Maidenhood") appear in a different key than the original broadway score.

Great for pianists/vocalists
I do singing lessons and my teacher recommended this book. I got it and it has been great. There are great songs for the preteen/teen girl. The songs include some well-known Disney songs such as: Part of Your World, Beauty and the Beast, and Feed the Birds, and songs from classic plays and their movie versions, like Memory, Think of Me, My Favorite Things, The Simple Joys of Maidenhood, I Could Have Danced All Night, and On My Own. I seriously recommend this book if you do piano or singing lessons, or want to. Great songs from great plays and movies. Buy it.

Good book for some
I think this is a good book for learning musical theatre and voice, especially for teens and kids. However, I agree with a review below me; there are many songs in here that are overdone, and this is definitely a popular book. I always see people with this same book at auditions I go on, and (in my experience) everyone tends to do the same songs: Wouldn't it Be Loverly, I Could Have Danced All Night, On My Own, and Unexpected Song, to name a few. However, there are a few gems that people don't do as often: The Simple Joys of Maidenhood, It's a Most Unusual Day, God Help the Outcasts, etc. Even those, however, can be done over and over. This is great for the young, amateur performer, it offers good, age-appropriate songs that can really be helpful. The songs are mostly all in the mezzo range, very few go above an F on the staff or below middle C, and for the most part fall between a middle C and a D on the staff. An alternative to this book (if it doesn't sound like something you'd like) would be one of the Singer's Musical Theatre Anthologies, also in the Hal Leonard collection. They have three different (and are coming out with a fourth) volumes for each voice type, soprano, mezzo/alto, mezzo/alto belter, tenor, baritone/bass (I'm not positive those are all of them). There are more songs in them (I think there's forty-something in the first soprano volume) and have more obscure songs, much better for using on auditions.