Vocal Literature Course
Welcome to your Vocal Literature Course!
The resource textbook you will be using is:
Song: A Guide to Art Song Style and Literature, Revised Edition by, Carol Kimball. Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation. Copyright 2005 by, Carol Kimball.
This blog, singerstickynotes.com, will serve as an audio complement to “PART II: LITERATURE” of the course textbook. Below you will find the table of contents for the “PART II: LITERATURE” section of the textbook which lists all the Art Song composers being studied with representative compositions. Each composer’s name is hypertext-linked to another, destination page where the audio performances of the songs/song cycles are presented for your listening and study.
Please note, when a composition is italicized in the table of contents, it indicates not a single song but the name of an entire song cycle. The individual names of the songs within that song cycle will be listed on the destination page for that composer. (Just click on the composer’s name and you will find the full information for each cycle on the destination page.)
So, start clicking and learning! Enjoy!
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ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF COMPOSERS:
ALFVÉN: Hugo Alfvén (1872–1960)
ANCHIETTA: Juan de Anchieta (1462–2006)
ARGENTO: Dominick Argento (b. 1927)
BACON: Ernst Bacon (1898–1990)
BARBER: Samuel Barber (1910–1981)
BARTÓK: Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
BEACH: Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867–1944)
BEETHOVEN: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
BELLINI: Vincenzo Bellini (1801–1835)
BERG: Alban Berg (1885–1935)
BERIO: Luciano Berio (1925–2003)
BERLIOZ: Hector Berlioz (1803– 1869)
BERNSTEIN: Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990)
BIZET: Georges Bizet (1838–1875)
BOLCOM: William Bolcom (b. 1938)
BORODIN: Aleksandr Porfir’evich Borodin
BOULANGER: Lili Boulanger (1893–1918)
BOWLES: Paul Bowles (1910–1999)
BRAGA: Francisco Ernani Braga (1868–1945)
BRAHMS: Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
BRITTEN: Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)
BURLEIGH: H. T. Burleigh (1866–1949)
BUSH: Geoffrey Bush (1920–1998)
BUTTERWORTH: George Butterworth (1885–1916)
CACCINI: Giulio Caccini (1546– 1618)
CAMPION: Thomas Campion (1567–1620)
CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895–1968)
CHABRIER: Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–1894)
CHAMINADE: Cécile Chaminade (1857–1944)
CHANDLER: Theodore Chandler (1902–1961)
CHAUSSON: Ernest Chausson (1855–1899)
CHOPIN: Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)
CIMARA: Pietro Cimara (1887–1967)
CLARK: Rebecca Clark (1886–1979)
COPLAND: Aaron Copland (1900–1990)
CUI: César Antonovich Cui
DEBUSSY: Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
DELIUS: Frederick Delius (1862–1934)
DICKINSON: Peter Dickinson (b. 1934)
DONAUDY: Stefano Donaudy (1879–1925)
DONIZETTI: Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848)
DOWLAND: John Dowland (1563–1626)
DRING: Madeleine Dring (1923–1977)
DUKE: John Duke (1899–1984)
DUPARC: Henri Duparc (1848–1933)
DURANTE: Francesco Durante (1684–1755)
DVORÁK: Antonín Dvorák (1841–1904)
ENESCU: George Enescu (1881–1955)
FAITH: Richard Faith (b. 1926)
FALLA: Manuel de Falla (1876–1946)
FAURÉ: Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)
FARWELL: Arthur Farwell (1872—1952)
FINZI: Gerald Finzi (1901–1956)
FOSTER: Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)
FRANCK: César Franck (1822–1890)
FRANZ: Robert Franz (1815–1892)
GINASTERA: Alberto Ginastera (1916–1983)
GLINK: Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
GLUCK: Christoph Wilibald Gluck (1714–1787)
GOUNOD: Charles Gounod (1818–1893)
GRANADOS: Enrique Granados (1867–1916)
GRIEG: Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)
GRIFFES: Charles Griffes (1884–1920)
GUASTAVINO: Carlos Guastavino (1912–2000)
GURIDI: Jesús Guridi (1886–1961)
GURNEY: Ivor Gurney (1890–1937)
HAGEN: Daron Aric Hagen (b. 1961)
HAHN: Reynaldo Hahn (1874–1947)
HANDEL: George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
HEAD: Michael Head (1900–1976)
HOIBY: Lee Hoiby (b. 1926)
HORDER: Mervyn Horder (1910–1997)
HUNDLEY: Richard Hundley (b. 1931)
IBERT: Jacques Ibert (1890–1962)
IRELAND: John Ireland (1879–1962)
IVES: Charles Ives (1874–1954)
JANÁČEK: Leoš Janáček (1854–1928)
KILPINEN: Yrjö Kilpinen (1892–1959)
KODÁLY: Zoltán Kodály (1882–1967)
KORNGOLD: Erich Korngold (1897–1957)
LAITMAN: Lori Laitman (b. 1955)
LARSEN: Libby Larsen (b. 1950)
LEGUERNEY: Jacques Leguerney (1906–1997)
LISZT: Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
LOEWE: Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe (1796–1869)
MAHLER: Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
MARX: Joseph Marx (1882–1964)
MENA: Gabriel Mena (fl. 1511–1516)
MENDELSSOHN: Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
MENDELSSOHN-HENSE: Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805–1847)
MILHAUD: Darius Milhaud (1892–1974)
MOMPOU: Federico Mompou (1893–1987)
MONTEVERDI: Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643)
MONTSALVATGE: Xavier Montsalvatge (1912– 2002)
Cristóbal de Morales (1500–1553)
MOZART: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
MUDARRA: Alonso Mudarra (1510–1580)
MUSSORSKY: Modest Petrovich Mussorsky
MUSTO: John Musto (b. 1954)
NIELSEN: Carl Nielsen (1865–1931)
NIN: Joaquín Nin (1879–1949)
OBRADORS: Fernando Obradors (1897–1945)
ORR: Charles Wilfred Orr (1893–1976)
PASATIERI: Thomas Pasatieri (b. 1945)
PAULUS: Stephen Paulus (b. 1949)
PERGOLESI: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736)
PERSICHETTI: Vincent Persichetti(1915–1987)
PFITZNER: Hans Pfitzner (1869–1949)
PIZZETTI: Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880–1968)
POULENC: Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)
PROKOFIEV: Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev
PURCELL: Henry Purcell (1659–1695)
QUILTER: Roger Quilter (1877–1953)
RAKHMANINOV: Sergey Vasil’evich Rakhmaninov
RANGSTRÖM: Ture Rangström (1884–1947)
RAVEL: Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
RESPIGHI: Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936)
RIGHINI: Vincenzo Righini (1756–1812)
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
RODRIGO: Joaquín Rodrigo (1901–1999)
ROREM: Ned Rorem (b. 1923)
ROSSINI: Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868)
ROUSSEL: Albert Roussel (1869–1937)
SANTOLIQUIDO: Francesco Santoliquido (1883–1971)
SATIE: Erik Satie (1866–1925)
SCARLATTI: Alessandro Scarlatti (1660–1725)
SCHOENBERG: Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951)
SCHUBERT: Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
SCHUMANN: Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
SCHUMANN: Clara Wieck Schumann (1819–1896)
SHOSTAKOVICH: Dmitry Dmitriyevich Shostakovich
SIBELIUS: Jean Sibelius (1865–1957)
STENHAMMER: Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871–1927)
STRAUSS: Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
STRAVINSKY: Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
STROZZI: Barbara Strozzi (1619–1664)
SZYMANOWSKI: Karol Szymanowski (1882–1937)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Pyotr Il’ich Tchaikovsky
THOMPSON: Virgil Thompson (1896–1989)
TORRE: Francisco de la Torre (1485–1504)
TOSTI: Francesco Paolo Tosti (1846–1916)
TURINA: Joaquín Turina (1882–1949)
VERDI: Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901)
VIARDOT: Pauline Viardot (1821–1910)
VILLA-LOBOS: Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959)
VIVALDI: Antonio Vivaldi (1676–1741)
WAGNER: Richard Wagner (1813–1883)
WARLOCK: Peter Warlock (1894–1930)
WEILL: Kurt Weill (1900–1950)
WILLIAMS: Ralph Vaughan (1872-1958)
WOLF: Hugo Wolf (1860–1903)
WOLF-FERRARI: Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876–1948)
ZAIMONT: Judith Lang Zaimont (b. 1945)
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The following section comprises composers and songs for study, as listed in the textbook. Please note that the destination pages for the composers’ names also list the the required repertoire for study.
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PART TWO: LITERATURE
GERMAN COMPOSERS
Franz Josef Haydn (1732–1809)
She Never Told Her Love
A Pastoral Song (My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair)
The Spirits Song
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Ridente la calma
Dans un bois solitaire
Das Veilchen
Als Luisa die Briefe
Abendempfindung
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Adelaide
Wunder der Wehmut
An die ferne Geliebte
Der Kuss
Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe (1796–1869)
Edward
Erlkönig
Herr Oluf
Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Gretchen am Spinnrade
Erlkönig
Ganymed
An die Leier
Rastlose Liebe
Ständchen
An die Musik
Die Forelle
Der Musensohn
Auf dem Wasser zu singen
Nacht und Träume
Die junge Nonne
Im Frühling
Blondel zu Marien
An den Mond
Suleika I
Die schöne Müllerin
Winterreise
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805–1847)
Nachtwanderer
Du bist die Ruh
Die Mainacht
Sehnsucht nach Italien Suleika
Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
Auf Flügeln des Gesanges
Bei der Wiege
Nachtlied
Neue Liebe
Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
Dichterliebe
Frauenliebe und –leben
In der Fremde
Waldesgespräch
Mondnacht
Widmung
Die Lotusblume
Der Nussbaum
Die beiden Grenadiere
Die Kartenlegerin
Volksliedchen
Mit Myrten und Rosen
Heiß’ mich nicht redden
Singet nicht in Trauertönen
Liebeslied
Mein schöner Stern!
Clara Wieck Schumann (1819–1896)
Liebst du um Schönheit
Er ist gekommen in Sturm und Regen
Lorelei
Ihr Bildnis
Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
Oh! quand je dors
Es muss ein Wunderbares sein
Freudvoll und leidvoll
Die drei Zigeuner
Ihr Glocken von Marling
Richard Wagner (1813–1883)
Wesendonck Lieder
Mignonne
Les deux Grenadiers
Robert Franz (1815–1892)
Es hat die Rose sich beklagt
Widmung
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Von ewiger Liebe
Die Mainacht
Botschaft
Vergebliches Ständchen
Feldeinsamkeit
Sapphische Ode
Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht
Auf dem Kirchhofe
Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer
Wie Melodien zieht es
Ständchen
Meine Liebe ist grün
Zigeunerlieder
Vier ernste Gesänge
Hugo Wolf (1860–1903)
Mörike Lieder (selections)
Das verlassene Mägdlein
Er ist’s
Begegnung
Nimmersatte Liebe
Der Gärtner
Elfenlied
Auf ein altes Bild
Verborgenheit
Goethe Lieder (selections)
Harfenspieler I
Mignon (Kennst du das Land)
Der Rattenfänger
Die Spröde
Anacreons Grab
Eichendorff Lieder (selections)
Der Musikant
Verschwiegene Liebe
Nachtzauber
Die Zigeunerin
Spanisches Liederbuch (selections)
Nun wandre, Maria
Herr, was trägt der Boden hier
In dem Schatten meiner Locken
Bedeckt mich mit Blumen
Geh, geliebter, geh jetzt
Italienisches Liederbuch (selections)
Auch kleine Dinge
Nun lass uns Frieden schließen
Wie lange schon
Mein Liebster singt
Heute Nacht erhob ich mich
Ich hab in Penna
Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
Wer hat dieses Lied lein erdacht
Das irdische Leben
Ich atmet’ einen Lindenduft
Liebst du um Schönheit
Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
Zueignung
Die Nacht
Allerseelen
Ständchen
Morgen!
Cäcilie
Befreit
Schlechtes Wetter
Hans Pfitzner (1869–1949)
Der Weckruf
Die Einsame
Nachtwanderer
Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951)
Opus 2 Songs
Brettl-Lieder
Joseph Marx (1882–1964)
Am Fenster
Nocturne
Regen
Valse de Chopin
Alban Berg (1885–1935)
Sieben frühe Lieder
Vier Lieder, Opus 2
Erich Korngold (1897–1957)
Nachtwanderer
Das Ständchen
Das Heldengrab am Pruth
Kurt Weill (1900–1950)
Nanna’s Lied
Berlin im Licht –Song
Youkali: Tango Habanera
Surabaya Johnny (Happy End)
My Ship (Lady in the Dark)
Speak Low (One Touch of Venus)
Lonely House (Street Scene)
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FRENCH COMPOSERS
Hector Berlioz (1803– 1869)
Les Nuits d’été
Charles Gounod (1818–1893)
Sérénade
Viens, les gazon sont verts
L’Absent
Venise
Oh ma belle rebelle
Pauline Viardot (1821–1910)
Aime-moi
Bonjour, mon cœur
Le chêne et le Roseau
Sérénade
Haï luli!
César Franck (1822–1890)
La Procession
Nocturne
Georges Bizet (1838–1875)
Chanson d’avril
Adieu de l’hôtesse arabe
Absence
Guitare
Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–1894)
L’île heureuse
Ballade des gros dindons
Villanelle des petits canards
Les Cigales
Henri Duparc (1848–1933)
Chanson triste
L’Invitation au voyage
Lamento
Phidylé
Le Manoir de Rosemonde
Extase
Ernest Chausson (1855–1899)
Nanny
Les Papillons
Hébé
Le Charme
Le Colibri
Le Temps des lilas
Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)
Lydia
Après un rêve
Au bord de l’eau
Nell
Les Berceaux
Les roses d’isfahan
Clair de lune
Arpège
Cinq Melodies de Venise
La Bonne chanson
L’Horizon chimérique
Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
Beau soir
Pierrot
Mandoline
Ariètte oubliées
Fêtes galantes I
Fêtes galantes II
Chanson de Bilitis
Ballade de François Villon
Cécile Chaminade (1857–1944)
Mignonne
L’anneau d’argent
Écrins
Erik Satie (1866–1925)
Ludions
Trois melodies, 1916
La diva de l’Empire
Albert Roussel (1869–1937)
Le Jardin mouillé
Réponse d’une épouse sage
Le Bachelier de Salamanque
Sarabande
Coeur en peril
Jazz dans la nuit
Reynaldo Hahn (1874–1947)
Si mes vers avaient des ailes
L’Heure exquise
D’une prison
A Chlorise
Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
Sainte
Histoire naturelles
Sur l’herbe
Cinq melodies populaires grecques
Don Quichotte à Dulcinée
Jacques Ibert (1890–1962)
Chanson de Don Quichotte
Darius Milhaud (1892–1974)
Six chants populaire hébraïque
Les soirées de Petrograd
Six chansons de theater
Chanson de Ronsart
Lili Boulanger (1893–1918)
Clairières dans le ciel
Reflete
Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)
Le Bestiaire
Tel jour, telle nuit
Fiançailles pour rire
Bleuet
Banalités
C
La Fraîcheur et le feu
Le Travail du peintre
Jacques Leguerney (1906–1997)
La Caverne d’Echo
La Nuit
Come away, Death
Ma douce jouvence et passée
À son page
Epipalinodie
Le Carnaval
Sept poèmes de François Maynard
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AMERICAN COMPOSERS
Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)
Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair
Beautiful Dreamer
Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway!
H. T. Burleigh (1866–1949)
Deep River
Saracen Songs
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867–1944)
Three Browning Songs
Charles Ives (1874–1954)
General William Booth Enters into Heaven
The Housatonic at Stockbridge
At the River
Memories
The Things Our Fathers Loved
Tom Sales Away
The Circus Band
The Cage
Charlie Rutledge
Charles Griffes (1884–1920)
Lament of Ian the Proud
Auf Geheimem Waldespfade
Symphony in Yellow
Virgil Thompson (1896–1989)
Sigh No More, Ladies
A Prayer to Saint Catherine
If Thou a Reason Dost Desire to Know
Take, o take those lips away
Ernst Bacon (1898–1990)
It’s All I Have to Bring
To Make a Prairie
Fond Affection
One Thought Ever at the Fore
Omaha
John Duke (1899–1984)
The Mountains Are Dancing
i Carry Your Heart
Luke Havergal
Bells in the Rain
Loveliest of Trees
Aaron Copland (1900–1990)
Old American Songs (Two Sets)
Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
Theodore Chandler (1902–1961)
Eight Epitaphs
O Mistress Mine
Samuel Barber (1910–1981)
Sure on this Shining Night
Rain Has Fallen
I Hear an Army
Hermit Songs
The Secrets of the Old
O Boundless, Boundless Evening
A Green Lowland of Pianos
Paul Bowles (1910–1999)
Blue Mountain Ballads
Once a Lady Was Here
Three
A Little Closer, Please
April Fool Baby
Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990)
La Bon Cuisine
Two Love Songs
A Simple Song (Mass)
Glitter and Be Gay (Candide)
I Hate Music!
Vincent Persichetti(1915–1987)
Emily Dickinson Songs
Ned Rorem (b. 1923)
The Lordly Hudson
Early in the Morning
Rain in Spring
Visits to St. Elizabeths
O you whom I often and silently come
Alleluia
Love
Ferry Me Across the Water
Flight for Heaven
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair
Lee Hoiby (b. 1926)
Where the Music Comes From
Lady of the Harbor
Jabberwocky
There Came a Wind Like a Bugle
The Serpent
In the Wand of the Wind
What If…
Richard Faith (b. 1926)
Remembrances
Christina Rossetti Songs
Four Elizabethan Songs
Dominick Argento (b. 1927)
From The Diary Of Virginia Woolf
Six Elizabethan Songs
Richard Hundley (b. 1931)
The Astronomers
Sweet Suffolk Owl
Ballad on Queen Anne’s Death
Some Sheep Are Loving
Come Ready and See Me
Waterbird
Moonlight’s Watermelon
William Bolcom (b. 1938)
Cabaret Songs
I Will Breathe a Mountain
Thomas Pasatieri (b. 1945)
Three Poems of James Agee
The Harp That Once Through Tara’s Halls
Judith Lang Zaimont (b. 1945)
Greyed Sonnets
New-fashioned Songs
Stephen Paulus (b. 1949)
Bittersuite
Artsongs
Three Elizabethan Songs
Libby Larsen (b. 1950)
ME
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Love after 1950
Try Me, Good King
John Musto (b. 1954)
Recuerdo
Dove Sta Amore
Lori Laitman (b. 1955)
The Apple Orchard
Echo
Pentecost
Refrigerator, 1957
Last Night the Rain Spoke to Me
I Never Saw Another Butterfly
Over the Fence
Little Elegy
Daron Aric Hagen (b. 1961)
Muldoon Songs
Larkin Songs
Love in a Life
Figments
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BRITISH COMPOSERS
The Lutenists:
John Dowland (1563–1626)
Come again, sweet love doth now invite
Fine knacks for ladies
In darkness let me dwell
Thomas Campion (1567–1620)
If the long’st so much to learn
Oft have I sighed
When to her lute Corinna sings
Henry Purcell (1659–1695)
Music for a while
If music be the food of love
I’ll Sail Upon the Dog Star
Hark! Hark! the Echoing Air
Sweeter than Roses
Frederick Delius (1862–1934)
Irmelin Rose
Twilight Fancies
Love’s Philosophy
Il pleure dans mon coeur
Roger Quilter (1877–1953)
Love’s Philosophy
Now sleeps the crimson petal
Fair House of Joy
Go, Lovely Rose
O Mistress Mine
John Ireland (1879–1962)
I Have Twelve Oxen
Spring Sorrow
Sea Fever
George Butterworth (1885–1916)
A Shropshire Lad (Selections)
Loveliest of Trees
When I was one-and-twenty
The lads in their hundreds
Is my team ploughing?
On the Idle Hill of Summer
Ivor Gurney (1890–1937)
In Flanders
The Fields are Full
Hawk and Buckle
Spring
Sleep
Under the Greenwood Tree
Rebecca Clark (1886–1979)
The Cloths of Heaven
The Seal Man
Down by the Sally Gardens
Charles Wilfred Orr (1893–1976)
Is my team ploughing?
With rue my heart is laden
Peter Warlock (1894–1930)
Pretty Ring Time
Jillian of Berry
Sleep
Rest sweet nymphs
My Own Country
Michael Head (1900–1976)
Lavender Pond
A Piper
Sweet Chance
Money-O!
Gerald Finzi (1901–1956)
Let Us Garlands Bring
Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)
A Charm of Lullabies
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo
Winter Words
Mervyn Horder (1910–1997)
Who is Sylvia?
Under the greenwood tree
Geoffrey Bush (1920–1998)
It was a lover and his lass
Sigh no more, ladies
I had a little nut-tree
Three Songs of Ben Johson
Madeleine Dring (1923–1977)
Blow,blow thou winter wind
Business Girls
Song of a Nightclub Proprietress
Peter Dickinson (b. 1934)
Three Comic Songs
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ITALIAN COMPOSERS
Giulio Caccini (1546– 1618)
Amarilli, mia bella
Tu ch’ai penne
Amore
Al fonte, al prato
Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643)
Lamento d’Ariana (lasciatemi morire)
Con che soavita labra odorate
Barbara Strozzi (1619–1664)
Amor, non dormir più
Non pavento io non di te
Tradimento!
Spesso per entro al petto
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660–1725)
O cessate di piagarmi
Le violette
Già il sole dal Gange
Antonio Vivaldi (1676–1741)
Agitata da due eventi
Anderò volerò griderò
Dite, oimè
Alma oppressa
Francesco Durante (1684–1755)
Danza, danza fanciulla gentile
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
Ombra mai fu (Serse)
Lusinghe più care (Alessandro)
A mio core (Alcina)
Verdi prati (Alcina)
Lascia ch’ io pianga (Rinaldo)
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736)
Se tu m’ami, sei sospiri
Christoph Wilibald Gluck (1714–1787)
O del mio dolce ardor (Paride ed Elena)
Vincenzo Righini (1756–1812)
Affetti non turbate
Placido zeffiretto
Vincenzo Bellini (1801–1835)
Vaga luna che inargenti
Vanne, o rosa fortunate
Ma rendi pur content
Almen se non poss’io
Malinconia, ninfa gentile
Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868)
La pastorella delle Alpi
La danza
La regatta veneziana
Il rimprovero
Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848)
Ah! rammenta, o bella Irene
Il barcaiolo
Me voglio fà na casa
Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901)
Perduta o la pace
Deh pietoso, oh Addolorata
Lo spazzacamino
Francesco Paolo Tosti (1846–1916)
La serenata
Malía
Ideale
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876–1948)
Quattro rispetti, Opus 11
Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936)
Nebbie
Notte
Stefano Donaudy (1879–1925)
O del mio amato ben
Freschi luoghi, prati aulenti
Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880–1968)
I pastori
Quel rosignuol che sì soave piangne
Francesco Santoliquido (1883–1971)
Tre poesie persiane
Pietro Cimara (1887–1967)
Fiocca la neve
Stornello
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895–1968)
Recuerdo
Springtime
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RUSSIAN COMPOSERS
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (Михаи́л Ива́нович Гли́нка) (1804–1857)
Ya pomnyu chudnoye mgnoven’ye
V krovi gorit ogon’zhelan’ya
Somnenie
Aleksandr Porfir’evich Borodin (Алекса́ндр Порфи́рьевич Бороди́н) (1833–1887)
Spyashchaya knyazhna
Pesnya temnogo lesa
Otravoy poly moi pesni
César Antonovich Cui (Це́зарь Анто́нович Кюи́ )(1835–1918)
Tsarskosel’skaya statuya
Zdes’siren’tak bistro uvyadaet
Sozhzhyonnoe pis’mo
Khristós voskrés
Modest Petrovich Mussorsky (Модест Петрович Мусоргский)(1839–1881)
Pesni I plaski smerti (Songs and Dances of Death)
Detskaya (The Nursery)
Pyotr Il’ich Tchaikovsky (Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский)(1840–1893)
Net, tol’ka tot, kto snal
Sred’shumnogo bala
Serenada Don-Zhuana
Zakatilas’solntse
Ya Rastvoril ya okno
Ya li pole da ne travushka byla
To byla ranneyu vesnoy
Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (Никола́й Андре́евич Ри́мский-Ко́рсаков)(1844–1908)
Plenivshis’rozoy, solovey
Redeyet oblakov letuchaya gryada
Noch
Sergey Vasil’evich Rakhmaninov (Серге́й Васи́льевич Рахма́нинов)(1873–1943)
Ne poy, krasavitsa prim ne
Uzh ty, niva moya
Vesenniya vody
Seren
K detyam
Vocaliz
Son
Zdes’khorosho
Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev (Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев)(1891–1953)
Gadky utyonok, Opus 18
Three Romances, Opus 73
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (И́горь Фёдорович Страви́нский)(1882–1971)
Pastorale
Berceuses du chat
Two Poems of Konstantin Balmont
Three Songs from William Shakespeare
Dmitry Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (Дми́трий Дми́триевич Шостако́вич)(1906–1975)
Spanish Songs
Satires
Suite on Verses by Michelangelo Buonarroti
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SCANDANAVIAN COMPOSERS
Edvard Grieg (1843–1907) Norway
Med en vandlilje
Jeg elsker dig
To brune øjne
En svane
Våren
Haugtussa
Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) Finland
Svarta rosor
Säv, säv, susa
Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings mote
Marssnön
Illalle
Var det en dröm?
Yrjö Kilpinen (1892–1959) Finland
Kirkkorannassa
Deinen Rosen an der Brust
Tunturille
Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871–1927) Sweden
Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings mote
I skogan
Fylgia
Till en ros
Vandraren
Hugo Alfvén (1872–1960) Sweden
Skogen sover
Så tag mit hjerte
Ture Rangström (1884–1947) Sweden
Vingar I natten
Melodi
Serenad
Afskedet
Carl Nielsen (1865–1931) Denmark
Irmelin Rose
Aebleblomst
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SPANISH COMPOSERS
Early Spanish Songs:
Juan de Anchieta (1462–2006)
Con amores, la mi madre
Francisco de la Torre (1485–1504)
Pámpano verde
Cristóbal de Morales (1500–1553)
De Antequera sale el Moro
Alonso Mudarra (1510–1580)
Triste estaba el Rey David
Gabriel Mena (fl. 1511–1516)
A la caza, sus, a caza
Enrique Granados (1867–1916)
Tonadillas (selections)
La maja dolorosa Nos. 1, 2, and 3
El tra la la y el punteado
Amor y odio
El majo discrete
El mirar de la maja
Manuel de Falla (1876–1946)
Siete canciones populares españolas
Trois melodies
Joaquín Nin (1879–1949)
Minué cantado
Paño murciano
Montañesa
Joaquín Turina (1882–1949)
Poema en forma de canciones
Tu pupila es azul
Jesús Guridi (1886–1961)
Seis canciones castellanas
Federico Mompou (1893–1987)
Combat del somni
Fernando Obradors (1897–1945)
Del cabello más sutil
El Vito
Joaquín Rodrigo (1901–1999)
Cuatro madrigals amatorios
Xavier Montsalvatge (1912– 2002)
Cinco canciones negras
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SOUTH AMERICAN COMPOSERS
Alberto Ginastera (1916–1983) Argentina
Cinco canciones populares argentinas
Cancíon al árbol del olvido
Carlos Guastavino (1912–2000) Argentina
La rosa y el sauce
Hermano
Pampamapa
Bonita rama de sauce
Milonga de dos hermanos
Se equivocó la paloma
Viniendo de Chilecito
Francisco Ernani Braga (1868–1945) Brazil
Campim di pranta
Sâo Joâo-dâ-ra-râo
Nigue-nigue-ninhas
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959) Brazil
Cação do poeta do século XVIII
Viola quebrada
Xangô
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EASTERN EUROPEAN COMPOSERS
Antonín Dvorák (1841–1904) Czechoslovakia
Cigánské melodie (Zigeunermelodien), Opus 55
Biblícké písne
Leoš Janáček (1854–1928) Czechoslovakia
The Diary of One Who Vanished
Béla Bartók (1881–1945) Hungary
Zoltán Kodály (1882–1967) Hungary
Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) Poland
Karol Szymanowski (1882–1937) Poland
George Enescu (1881–1955) Romania
Sept chansons de Clément Marot