A Russian Songbook

Full piano Arrangements

Guitar Chords

Russian Texts in Cyrillic and Latin-Alphabet Transliteration

English Singing Translations

A superb collection of 25 traditional folk songs, and 19 popular songs written in the folk style by 20th century composers. Each displays the long and colorful song tradition of the Russian culture. Each song appears with a full piano accompaniment and guitar chords. Text appears in the original Cyrillic, in transliteration, and in an English singing translation

Table of Contents for A Russian Song Book

Preface

Introduction by Henrietta Yurchenco

Guide to Transliteration

Part I Folk Songs

1. Down the Volga River

2. "Oh, You Dear Little Night"

3. Down Along the Mother Volga

4. Dubinushka

5. The Slender Mountain Ash

6. Farewell to Happiness

7. The Little Bell

8. Do Not Scold Me and Do Not Reproach Me

9. No Sounds from the City are Heard

10. My Sweetheart

11. All Throughout the Great Wide World I Wandered

12 The Story of the Coachman

13. In the Meadow Stood a Little Birch Tree

14. The Boundless Expanse of the Sea

15. The Cliff on the Volga

16. Snow Flurries

17. Stenka Razin (From Beyond the Island)

18. Troika Rushing

19. Do Not Awaken My Memories

20. Along the Peterskaya Road

21. In the Valley

22. The Village on the Road

23. Kalinka (Little Snowball Bush)

24. Why Do You Gaze at the Road?

25. Song of the Volga Boatmen

Part II Popular Songs

26. Moscow Nights

27. Lonely Accordion

28. Katiusha

29. Wait for Me

30. Silently

31. Dark Is the Night

32. Strains of Guitar (On the River)

33. The Light

34. Wait for Your Soldier

35. Meadowland

36. Regimental Polka

37. My Heart

38. "Far Away, Far Away"

39. Should the Volga`s Banks Be Flooded

40. Strolling Home

41. Who Knows Why

42. Through the Village

43. Clouds Have Risen Over the City

44. Song of Greeting

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