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.

Click here for SYLLABUS

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

Luciano Berio (1925–2003)

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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