Vocal Sheet Music

Safe within their cocoons, butterflies only become vulnerable when they emerge to enchant the world with their beauty. Madame Butterfly has been breaking hearts for over a century with its tragic tale...

The first performance of the Songs and Proverbs of William Blake Op.74 was given by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Benjamin Britten at the Aldeburgh Festival on 24 June, 1965. Available here is Britten'...

Poems by Pushkin, with English & German translations

Five settings of poems by Walter De La Mere arranged for Medium Voice and Piano Accompaniment. These settings were written by Benjamin Britten in his childhood, and were collected together in honor of...

Music of profound beauty from one of the greatest vocal music composers of the past 100 years, set to text by T.S. Eliot. This is one of Britten's five canticles and was first performed at The Malting...

Instrumentation: Gustav von Aschenbach(T),the traveller/multiple role(B-Bar),the voice of Apollo(counter-tenor) 2(=picc).2.2(II=bcl).2 - 2221 - timp - perc(5): 2 SD/2 TD/2 BD/tuned drum/3 tom-t/3 ch.d...

These songs were written at the special wish of Her Majesty the Queen for her mother's seventy-fifth birthday, August 4th 1975. Its first public performance was given on the 9th January 1976, at Schlo...

The story of the American folk hero follows the development of the American continent from virgin forest to civilization. It does so in a deliberately eclectic style. Spoken dialogue is interspersed w...

These four songs are taken from A Birthday Hansel Op.92 which was written at the special wish of Her Majesty The Queen for her mother's seventy-fifth birthday, 4th August 1975. All of the songs are wo...

1. Beware! (Henry Longfellow from the German) 2. O That I had ne'er been married (Robert Burns) 3. Epitaph: The Clerk (Herbert Asquith)

A terrific collection that brings together nine of Britten's previously unpublished songs, written over a period of 25 years from 1935 onwards. Many were originally intended to be part of song-cyles b...

A terrific collection that brings together nine of Britten's previously unpublished songs, written over a period of 25 years from 1935 onwards. Many were originally intended to be part of song-cyles b...

Lyrics, rhymes and riddles by William Soutar for Tenor and Piano.

Five songs by Pelham Humphrey, William Croft, John Blow and Jeremiah Clarke all realised by Benjamin Britten.

Thomas Adès's Op. 1 is a romantic, fanciful, finely wrought response to colourful 'minor poems' of T.S. Eliot, with ingenuities unobtrusively tucked away into the composition. At the close of 'New Ham...

This mass setting combines powerful, dramatic writing with a melodious charm that characterises Goodall's choral music. A substantial work of moderate difficulty, it will be found valuable for both ch...

The theme tune to the BBC TV series 'The Vicar of Dibley' has already joined the ranks of best-loved TV themes - not surprising when one considers that its composer has written many other memorable th...

The ability to sing in foreign languages is a much-needed skill for singers, but few vocal training resources tackle this aspect comprehensively in one book. With this in mind, ABRSM examiners and pro...

The ability to sing in foreign languages is a much-needed skill for singers, but few vocal training resources tackle this aspect comprehensively in one book. With this in mind, ABRSM examiners and pro...

Gilbert & Sullivan's Patience was the first to be performed at the Savoy Theatre, and thus the first theatrical production in the world to be lit entirely by electric light. Thereafter, the G&S operas...