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32 songs by Anglo-Irish composer Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer (1882-1957) setting the text of James Joyce's 'Chamber Music'. The cycle is a kind of Irish Winterreise that adds significantly to the history...

Since my teenage years the music of French composer Michel Legrand has been a source of joy and inspiration. When I heard of his death in January 2019 I went straight to the piano and found this melod...

Solo parts include voice, C, Bb, Eb and F instruments, in treble and bass clef, 2 versions: medium and more difficult. Choose the version that suits you best! Song for Peace around the World originate...

This is a beautiful setting of Robert Frost's poem Dust of Snow by Elliott Carter. Arranged for Voice and Piano accompaniment.

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Purcell's I Attempt From Love's Sickness To Fly, presented for High Voice in the Key of G.

Aria from the Opera 'Le Nozze Di Figaro'.

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...

Reduction from the work for Tenor and Orchestra.

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...