Art Songs Collections

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lincoln was commissioned for the Lincoln Symposium, Concord, Massachusetts, in celebration of the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth, February 13, 2009. The string orchestra is scored for

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

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

O Mistress Mine follows a narrative arc illuminating the ever-changing nature of love, from the time we first encounter it as youths to our awareness as we age of its many varying qualities.

Commissioned for the 2018 National Convention of the American Guild of Organists in Kansas City, Missouri. The texts which provide the basis for this work were all written by the French poet Guillaume

On the surface, this 1941 Elizabeth Bishop poem is about roosters. More specifically, roosters in Key West, where the poet spent a decade. But the subtexts could not be any more appropriate in terms of

This text was adapted from Mark Twain's The War Prayer, which he wrote in 1904-5 to protest America’s involvement in the Spanish-American War. His family convinced him to keep if from

Many attribute this text to to Noah S. ("Soggy") Sweat, a judge and member of the Mississippi legislature, circa 1952. Whether true or not, this piece is an unexpected relief from the formal - or just a

Set on texts of love by Elie H. Haddad, this song cycle explores the the love story of the writer and his wife during their courtship. The composer sets the lyrics with artistry, playfulness and emotion to

Written for Jun Mo Yang, a young tenor studying in the graduate Vocal Arts Program at the Bard Conservatory, this piece fulfilled his class assignment to seek out repertoire from a living composer whose

The poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay provides the texts for this set of three songs. Love of nature, love of humankind, and a delight in life's journey bind these musical explorations. Each selection is

These two songs, setting poems by Emily Dickinson for soprano and piano, are highly contrasting. Summer is meditative and nostalgic, while Hope is mercurial and fleet-footed, evoking