Sheet Music for Piano and Voice for All Genres

Apollinaire's poetry—like Verlaine's—is already almost music, so how could it not tempt a musician? But precisely, this attraction should put him on his guard. What is a virtue in poetry can turn agai...

The Chansons Incas are part of a tradition of the "elsewhere" extending the music world tour taken on by Maurice Ravel (Chansons madécasses), Louis Aubert (Poèmes arabes), Maurice Delage (Poèmes hindo...

Is it really possible for a poet of this quality to disappear without a trace? Not alone, moreover: along with Carco, Derème, and a few others of this "fanciful school", who, on the fringes of the noi...

It is not always well known that Rilke, in the evening of his life, wrote a few poems in French. He gave an admirable motive for this in the very middle of his collection Vergers: Perhaps if I dared w...

Let no one make a mistake about the word épigramme (epigraph): here it does not designate the vengeful witticism, the skilfully fired dart. Régnier uses it in its most Greek, most primitive sense: an...

Those who love Max Jacob (are there many of us left these days?) almost always hesitate between these two poles of the poet's inspiration: the tragic and the humorous - and all the more so given that,...

Ordinarily, what we like and admire in Tardieu is the virtuoso worker of the language, who dismantles the machinery of our speech and hearing, so amusingly and cruelly, and sets fire to all the distre...

I have not forgot my astonishment the day when I discovered the Odes et Prières by an author of whom I, like just about everyone, knew only the droll Knock and the hilarious Les Copains. The vast, lig...

To each of us, Supervielle can effortlessly speak 'his sweet native tongue'. This is not necessarily the criterion for 'high-wrap' poetry, and Mallarmé would be there to tell us the exact opposite. Bu...

First cycle of French songs dedicated to Verlaine's Poèmes saturniens, Bordes' Paysages tristes are an outstanding attempt to implement the cyclical form to vocal repertoire. To this extent, this work...

In 1874 Verlaine published his Songs Without Words; these inspired Charles Bordes' four songs. These pieces are among his most prominent works for voice and piano. Two of them were first performed in...

So many contradictory masks have been attributed to him: the mystic and the rebel, the wild boy and the scholar… Let us others persist in seeing in Rimbaud, the poet Rimbaud, only the face of a child....

Among the contemporary poets set in music by Massenet, Paul Mariéton (1862-1911), a Provence poet and founder of the Revue félibréenne (1895), has a particular place. The two men had known each other...

Piano reduction available for the first time! Joonas Kokkonen's The Hades of the Birds consists of three songs, two shorter ones framing a longer middle one. The chosen poems were by P. Mustapää (alia...

Songs from the Micromusicals Grade 4 High Voice - the songs in this volume are from the Micromusicals series, which includes nearly 30 musicals. Apart from the fact that they are wonderfully attractiv...

This song from Charles Gounod 's Faust is the Ballade Du Roi De Thulé Et Air Des Bijoux. Scored for Soprano (the part of Margeurite) with Piano Accompaniment.

For Soprano with Piano Accompaniment.

This Book and CD collection of Volume 2 of Les Plaisirs Du Bel Canto features a selection of songs for singers that have been taken from the classic repertoire of the great operas. For Soprano Voice....

Philippe Chamouard's music sheds new light on Michelangelo's three magnificent poems (Dimmi di grazia, Gli occhi, A l'alta tuo) which deal with a universal theme, that of love linked to beauty.

For Mezzo-Soprano with Piano Accompaniment.