Art Songs Collections

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

This collection of five songs is scored such that it can be performed by a vocal soloist or a B-flat clarinet soloist. There is a thorough pronunciation guide and translation for the Czech texts and

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

"American Death Ballads was composed especially for tenor Brian Thorsett and premiered by him at the San Francisco Conservatory, November 1, 2015, with pianist John Churchwell, and at the National

The Cantabile vocal training series has become a standard resource the world over. This add-on anthology provides four essential songs for vocal study: an Italian art song, a German lied, a folk song, and a

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

Part of a series of operatic aria anthologies subdivided by vocal register, this collection is drawn from Antonio Vivaldi's surviving musical works for the theater. Its sources include 24 musical dramas,

A contemplative text and melody written by Mary Queen of Scots while she was imprisoned and awaiting her execution is set in a tender setting that is suitable for all voice types. This arrangement works

A cycle of songs for mezzo-soprano and piano set on texts by Marilyn Kallet. Also included in Cipullo's collection Songs for Mezzo-Soprano. Titles include: Why I Wear My Hair Long; Saying

One of the better-known settings of the Ave Maria text, Gounod's version from 1852 added a melody with its own operatic climax to the famous arpeggios of the C-major Prelude BWV 846 from Bach's

This collection of the most beautiful songs by Erik Satie is part of Musique vocale française, a series designed for students, teachers, and professional singers which includes the best French vocal

Edited by Scott Crowne. For voice & piano. Includes preface and editorial notes. Score, 27 p.

This edition of Viardot-Garcia's vocal works in Spanish for voice and piano sheds light not only on the intellectual diva, singing professional, and composer, but also on the Spaniard who never forgot her

In recognition of the 200th anniversary of Clara Schumann's birth, this beautiful anniversary compilation presents 14 of her greatest songs. Composed chiefly after her marriage to Robert Schumann, these