Sheet Music by Female Composers: A Rich and Diverse Selection

In this piece, the voice and the breath play an equal role in executing the musical text, as the breath is (at times) independent from the voice and equal to it in an almost contrapuntal relationship....

This highly expressive and inventive song cycle utilizes a lush prepared piano sound-world intertwined with beautiful vocal writing and text setting. The composer tells us, “This cycle is imagined as...

English composer, Dame Ethel Mary Smyth was a proud member of the women's suffrage movement. Her compositions include songs, works for piano, chamber music, orchestral works, choral works and operas....

Catherine Anahid Berberian (Attleboro, Massachusetts, July 4, 1925 - Rome, Italy, March 6, 1983) was an American composer, mezzo-soprano singer, and vocalist. She interpreted contemporary avant-garde...

My song cycle, „Love, Orange Days and Summer Winds“ is a setting of four love poems by the American poet, Pam Morehead. These poems were not originally intended to form a cycle, but I felt they seemed...

The piece was not conceived as an independent piece, but as part of a project. The text by James Joyce should be accompanied by a soundscape, mainly with an electronically generated heartbeat - someti...

Peace? and to all the world? sure, One And He the Prince of Peace, hath none. He travels to be born, and then Is born to travel more again… Henry Vaughan (1621-1695) walisischer Dichter, metaphysical...

Der "Erlkönig" ist eine der frühesten Vertonungen Mayers auf einen Text von Goethe. Er entstand ursprünglich 1842 in der Studienzeit Emilie Mayers bei bei Musikdirektor Carl Loewe in Stettin. Diese Au...

Dieser Band enthält alle Kompositionen Bettines auf Texte von Goethe. Erstmalig wird hier das Lied Ach neige, du Schmerzenreiche veröffentlicht. 'Die Lieder sind fantasievoll ... es gibt sangbare und...

Einsätziges, ruhig flie-endes Stück. Mittelschwer.

Fanny Hensels klavierbegleitete Sololieder, die anonym oder 'unter falschem Namen' zu ihren Lebzeiten und teilweise ohne ihr Wissen veröffentlicht wurden, bilden den Leitfaden durch diese zweibändige...

Die in Berlin geborene Liedkomponistin und Dirigentin L. Reichardt war eine der ersten Musikpädagoginnen des 19. Jh. Sie erlebte das Entstehen der literarischen Romantik mit und war mit den meisten de...

Inhalt: There is one part of you You breathe on Cherry Walking behind you Wundervoller Liedzyklus, der in jedem Konzert überzeugt. Eher anspruchsvoll.

In Fanny Hensel’s oeuvre, which encompasses more than 450 works, songs play a central role. They form the largest group of works and occupied her throughout her life as a composer: from the fourteen-y...

Musique Vocale - Melodies A. Acc.

A beautiful extract from Garrop's major oratorio Terra Nostra, set to the poem by Walt Whitman. Terra Nostra considers, through texts and poems, the world as it was, humanity's rise and impact on the...

A beautiful extract from Garrop's major oratorio Terra Nostra, set to the poem by Walt Whitman. Terra Nostra considers, through texts and poems, the world as it was, humanity's rise and impact on the...

Stacy Garrop's DIRGE WITHOUT WORDS is a dramatic setting of Edna St. Vincent Millay's elegiac poem of the same name. The music gives voice to the mournful, yet defiant, character of the poetry, which...