Vocal Solo

The third song in the composer's Tagore-inspired 'Gitanjali' cycle (1913).

The Lord's Prayer, scored for medium-low voice with piano accompaniment.

For High Voice and Piano, in the key of B Flat.

A setting of a poem written by Lord Byron for voice and piano.

The hauntingly beautiful spiritual arranged for Voice and Piano by John Jacob Niles.

Rudolph Schirmer's 'Honey Shun' is an unusual song for high voice and piano.

From Rudolph Schirmer's Seven Songs for Voice and Piano, this is a song of a knight who gives up the sword for the love of the travelling life. Suitable for high voice with a range from Middle C to th...

Schirmer's song Ianthe is the pentultimate song from Seven Songs for Voice and Piano. The words and music have a sensual, passionate quality, describing the many attractive qualities of Ianthe.

Rudolph Schirmer's song 'My Heart Is A River' is the final song from Seven Songs for Voice and Piano. It is designed to display a large vocal range - it spans almost two octaves beginning from the G b...

Based on the tune from the Corpus Christi hymn Pange Lingua, this song depicts the shepherds' feelings approaching the manger.

Also wittily subtitled 'Strike till the iron is hot', this is a comic, almost 'nonsense' song based on a poem by Marianne Moore.

Song Number 2 from The Cloisters for Voice and Piano. Poem by William M. Hoffman.

Song Number 4 from The Cloisters for Voice and Piano. Poem by William M. Hoffman.

Like Virgil Thomson's opera 'Four Saints in Three Acts', this is a setting of text by Gertrude Stein. Also similarly to 'Pigeons on the Grass Alas' from that opera, it draws musical material from the...

Paul Creston's Dance Variations for Soprano and Orchestra is an unusual piece, with a wordless voice taking the place of a melody instrument in a series of challenging variations on a minuet-style the...

A song-cycle for Soprano voice and Piano, based on six poems by Emily Dickinson. Leon Kirchner's music is highly original, very chromatic, usually in a linear fashion, and frequently features irregula...

For Soprano and Piano. Text from Le Occasioni by Eugenio Montale.

Spiritual from 'Black, Brown and Beige'. Adapted by Lawrence Rosen.

Written by George Balanchine and Arthur Schwartz.

This heartbreakingly tragic lament by the Mother from Gian-Carlo Menotti's Consul would be most suitable for a high voice because of the intensity required at the top of the range.

This Song for Voice and Piano was composed in 1952. It tells of the death of a hero.