20th / 21st Century Song Collections

A cycle of songs for mezzo-soprano and piano set on texts by Marilyn Kallet. Also included in Cipullo's collection Songs for Mezzo-Soprano. Titles include: Why I Wear My Hair Long; Saying

Emily Dickinson's nature–inspired text has sparked the creativity of many song writers. This newly engraved 2020 version of Perera song cycle is available for mezzo-soprano with piano or with

This song cycle is, in part, a mediation on what it means to be a mortal being who exists in time. The first and last movements each present a different take on looking back, and the cycle moves backward in

This song cycle for high voice is fitting for experienced singers wishing to add contemporary art songs to their repertoire. The witty Carl Sandburg text comes to life with atonal though melodic writing and

Termed a "dramatic song cycle," by the composer, the singer portrays five roles (4 male, 1 female) in this 25 minute monodrama. The libretto is sometimes spoken, more often sung, and distills what was a

A solo art song for mezzo-soprano and piano on a poem by John Boyle O'Reilly. Also included in Cipullo's collection Songs for Mezzo-Soprano. 

A solo art song for tenor and piano, setting a text of George Eliot. A perfect choice for weddings or celebrations of love. Also included in Cipullo's collection Songs for Tenor, Volume 1.

Art song composer Juliana Hall wrote this monodrama as a gift for admired English mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately. Godiva is based on the legendary Lady Godiva and sets a libretto by Caitlin Vincent.

From the song cycle The Land of Nod, this stand-out selection makes a fabulous showpiece for mezzo-soprano and piano. Poet Alice Wirth Gray provides a quirky commentary on this fairy tale,

This collection of 12 songs continues Cipullo's outstanding art songs for baritone and piano. An Earth to Walk Upon, a set of six songs, reflects on life in this physical world and compares our

Cipullo's vocal works are becoming increasingly popular. The 14 songs in this volume for baritone and piano were composed between 2002 and 2009. A set of six, America 1968, represent poet Robert

While the title is French for "Eight Flower Songs," the texts are all in English. The poems' flowers metaphorically evoke fragrance, love and loss, life and death, rebirth and regrowth. This 20-minute song

A song cycle from Cipullo's Songs for Baritone, Volume 1. Titles include: Monet's Waterlilies; Hey Nonny No; The Point (Stonington, Connecticut); The Whipping; Those Winter Sundays; Frederick

Comprising six short movements, this setting of Caitlin Vincent's text expresses raw and shifting emotions in a dramatic setting for soprano that allows direct communication from singer to audience without

William Carpenter's prose poem expresses the longing of a group of widows as they reunite with their husbands in memory. This musical setting for soprano and baritone duet with flute, viola, and piano

Hall's song setting for soprano voice and alto saxophone of the famous Wallace Stevens poem is composed in 13 short parts, each a brief performance at one of the 13 stops along the Wallace Stevens Walk in

Love and loss are the themes of this moving poem by A.E. Housman. The musical setting for tenor and piano encapsulates the deep emotion inherent in the poem.

Cipullo's art songs are finding a welcome home in modern song repertoire. This collection for tenor and piano contains two song cycles and a stand-alone song. Four Long Island Songs are set to

A stand-alone art song for mezzo-soprano and piano on a text by Linda Pastan. Also included in Cipullo's collection Songs for Mezzo-Soprano.

A set of seven songs based on texts by Polish poet Agata Tuszynska for mezzo-soprano and piano. Also included in Cipullo's collection Songs for Mezzo-Soprano. Titles include: Echo; Impossible;

Excerpted from the ten-movement, 30-minute work "Insomnia," this stand-alone art song for baritone and piano is also included in Cipullo's collection Songs for Baritone, Volume 2.

A set of songs for baritone and piano included in Cipullo's collection Songs for Baritone, Volume 2 and based on the poetry of Linda Pastan. Titles include: blizzard; The Almanac of Last

Tom Cipullo continues to add to the canon of modern art songs. The works in this volume for mezzo-soprano and piano were all composed between 1999 and 2006. Glances is a setting of six brief,

Commissioned by Lynx Project for its 2017 Autism Advocacy Project which sets the words of individuals with autism to music in newly commissioned art songs, Hall's six-minute song cycle for tenor