The Lied, Art Song, and Choral Texts Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, art songs, choral pieces, and other vocal music

Welcome! The Lied, Art Song, and Choral Texts Archive is an ever-expanding collection of texts used in 128,885 Lieder and other classical art songs (Kunstlieder, mélodies, canzoni, романсы, canciones, liederen, canções, sånger, laulua, písně, piosenki, etc.) as well as in many choral works and other types of classical vocal pieces. The archive currently indexes 78,599 texts with 22,801 translations to English, French, Italian, Dutch, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, and others. The website has almost daily updates . Where to start? The Introduction is a good place, or the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ). You can browse the collection by using the indexes by composer, text poet or author, first line, title, or language; or you can search for words or phrases. The following links will give you an idea of the type of information this website has to offer. Be sure to read this note about how to tell when a text shown is the sung text or the published stand-alone text or both.

Welcome to Art Song Central! Wallace Best, Ph.D.: The 10 Best Gospel Songs: The Soul Of American Music Gospel music is the most American of American music and the veritable soundtrack of black America. Born in the trauma of the 1930s, nurtured in the dramatic shifts of the 1940s and 50s, validated during the uncertainties of the 1960s and 70s, and complicated amid the technological advances of the 1980s and 90s, it has wonderfully articulated the hopes, fears, struggles, and joys of generations of blacks. As the root of R&B, Soul, and Rock, it is perhaps the most influential American musical genre, having launched the careers of countless singers past and present. Coming up with a list of the best gospel songs is a near impossible task, so this list of 10 represent the most significant in terms of music and lyrical quality, originality, innovation, and most important, how they conform to the classic understanding of gospel music, which is "good news." TAKE MY HAND, PRECIOUS LORD (1932): Written by former bluesman, Thomas A. MOVE ON UP A LITTLE HIGHER (1947): Pastor and composer W. I.

Vocalist.org.uk - Vocalise List and Links to Vocalises Vocalises, or songs without words, range from basic vocal scales and exercises to classical works of art designed to practice particular vocal skills including intonation and phrasing, control and nuance. We have trawled the internet to find vocalise sheet music and sites providing free online vocalises for you to use for vocal practise. Some of the links lead to vocalise, improvisations and aria's provided by university students as part of their course work, some of which are accompanied by soundfiles - All of the following links open in a new window. Please Note: The Vocalise Books have been moved onto their own page which can be accessed Here and via the Books for Singers section. For sheet music suppliers Click Here. American Memory 'Vocalises & Vocal Exerciseslist of vocalises and vocal exercises for all voice ranges. Dr. Singing Exercisesthis is a translated version of Vocalise a french site providing midi vocalise sets for a small fee - there are free downloadable samples online.

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