The title contains songs that vary in difficulty, ranging from simple to more advanced, with approachable accompaniments that can be played by voice teachers. The book also includes a guide to Russian pronunciation, complete with detailed descriptions and the visual representation of every phoneme, as well as phonetic transcriptions and English translations of all songs and brief biographical sketches of composers and poets. CONTENTS How happy he (Alexander Alyabyev) Mountain peaks (Alexander Varlamov) Don’t sing, oh lovely one (Mikhail Glinka) I’m sad (Alexander Dargomyzhsky) I loved you (Boris Sheremetev) A false note (Alexander Borodin) The statue of Tsarskoye Selo (César Cui) Why? (Mily Balakirev) Evening song (Modest Mussorgsky) My genius, my angel (Pyotr Tchaikovsky) Twilight fell on earth (Pyotr Tchaikovsky) A nightingale (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov) On the hills of Georgia (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov) Of what, in the silence (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov) Delia (Alexander Glazunov) Dream (Sergei Rachmaninoff) At the gate where holiness (Sergei Rachmaninoff) My harp is silent for a reason (Reinhold Gliè)