Art song
(Lieder, mélodies and songs)
(pages not yet complete)
The American expression 'art song' usefully describes in English the genre called Lied (German) or mélodie (French). These pages are divided into two main sections:
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Duets suitable for soprano and tenor
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Lieder, mélodies and songs for solo voice (in preparation)
The duets
link is primarily a listing, because I found it surprisingly difficult to
discover the existence of some of these songs, and to source a score.The solo voice pages are not, of course, comprehensive, but
rather, a few items which you might not find elsewhere.
In both links you will find texts and translations of some songs,
sound samples, and scores of
a few songs - for example, out of
copyright scores which are hard to obtain, or key transpositions which may be
unpublished or hard to get hold of.
I have excluded early music,
e.g. Purcell (but I have included Britten's
realisations of Purcell), arrangements for two voices (other than by the original
composer), parlour songs, operatic
arias, cantatas and other religious works.
Future links and topics:
Copyright
issues in musical scores
Miscellaneous