This collection, representing major composers, was compiled as an introduction to British song literature for collegiate age singers and advanced high school age singers. Britten: Come you not from Newcastle? * Britten: Nocturne * Britten: The Nurse's Song * Clarke: Down by the Salley Gardens * Finzi: Come away, come away, death * Finzi: Oh fair to see * Gurney: Sleep * Purcell/Britten: I attempt from love's sickness to fly * Purcell/Britten: If music be the food of love (1st version) * Quilter: Love's Philosophy * Quilter: Now sleeps the crimson petal * Quilter: Weep you no more * Vaughan Williams: Linden Lea * Vaughan Williams: The Vagabond * Warlock: Take o take those lips away.