Art Songs Collections

Based on the composer's lifelong affection and admiration of duets from Broadway musicals, this collection of songs likewise seeks to combine timeless, unforgettable lyric melodies and texts. Setting the

This volume offers a refreshing alternative to the many Italian Songs and Arias collections geared toward young singers. It celebrates women composers of solo music in Italian beginning in the late

Originally called hokku, the familiar three-line verse began as the opening of a group improvisation called renga which evolved in Japan in the middle ages. Often creating spontaneously, one poet would

The poetry of Emily Dickinson is especially appealing due to the wide range of topics, diversity of mood, and peculiar imagination of the poet. The writings are reflective, passionate, witty, sensuous,

Kohn embarked on discovering and arranging lesser-known folk songs from the American tradition in this set of 15 folk songs. Each is a mini-drama with a story to tell; someone is traveling, working or

Letters from Edna presents eight letters sent by the great American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay to members of her family, friends, and business associates. The letters describe the people Millay

The title of the song cycle A World Turned Upside Down comes from an entry in "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank, reflecting the sense she felt of her world being upturned when suddenly the

This collection of Argentinean tangos for either high voice or medium-low voice and piano offers a cross section of tango across the ages, from the beginnings through the Gardel era, the golden age and

This deeply expressive arioso opens Handel's Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, which was written circa 1713. It is best known, more recently, for its use in the royal wedding of Meghan Markle and

This beautiful edition for high or low voice with piano accompaniments and online audio access to recorded accompaniments and diction lessons contains 15 songs from the 19th and 20th centuries. An English

Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) dedicated his "Cien Sonetos de Amor" to his wife, and it remains among the world's most revered collections of love poems. Among these hundred poems is the gorgeous

Originally conceived as a set, this collection of songs is based on the writings of Willa Cather and Carl Sandburg. The Sandberg texts are all excerpted from the poem Prairie and fill in the

Composed as a wedding gift for friends, Walker chose texts that are mostly 19th-century poems, each exploring love and perpetuity from its own unique lens. Perfect as a set, though each piece works well by

Emily Dickinson has her tongue firmly in her cheek in these three poems. There is serious purpose under the lyrics, but the surface is pure wordplay. She juggles the terms “forgetting” and

This atmospheric setting of words from Shakespeare's As You Like It is sprightly and uplifting, with the singer being asked to perform with "a bit of frost and a knowing smile." Musically it

A short song cycle using an unaccompanied solo soprano to vocalize the fanciful and magical poems of E.E. Cummings with glissandi, whistling, ghostly whispered notes and long melismas drawing out the sounds

Renowned pianist, opera coach, conductor, teacher, and writer Kathleen Kelly commissioned composer Juliana Hall to set her poem "Tornado" as an art song, which was premiered by soprano Caitlin Lynch with

Also known as the Song of the White Cheese, this song may be performed in German or with an English translation by Michael Feingold. Published here for the first time, this piece was composed in

Patti's unexpected and often humorous experiences riding the DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit) were chronicled online and eventually discovered by the composer. Inspired by Patti's pithy, sarcastic, and