20th / 21st Century Song Collections

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 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.

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

American composer Juliana Hall has written more than 50 song cycles and works of vocal chamber music for prestigious commissions and artists such as Dawn Upshaw and David Malis. Here she sets five sonnets

Each song of this work sets an essay from Beautiful Things, a collection of 28 short essays by author Michelle Webster-Hein. Each essay is a short discourse on finding beauty in simple things each

American composer Juliana Hall has written more than 50 song cycles and works of vocal chamber music for prestigious commissions and artists such as Dawn Upshaw and David Malis. Here she sets five poems by

Here is a collection of modern art songs for voice and piano by American composer John Conahan in which he sets poems and texts that have been a source of inspiration for him. Available in four separate

This invaluable collection features editions for the soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, and baritone voice taken from contemporary American opera featuring composers David Conte, Daron Hagen, Libby Larsen,

Commissioned by musicians Richard Lee and Karen Lerner as a gift for their daughter, soprano Katherine Lerner Lee, this art song was premiered in Katherine's master's degree recital at the Bard College

A song cycle for mezzo-soprano comprised of five songs based on texts from Marie Howe's book, What the Living Do. The texts are plain spoken, and the music sets the lyrics intimately and expressively. Songs

A comedic poem by Vachel Lindsay set in a delightful and spirited manner offers much fun for the singer (and pianist!) and audience alike. In a similar manner to Rossini's Comic Duet for Two Cats,

Seven modern French art songs for soprano or mezzo-soprano with piano accompaniment. Contents: Nuit d'Etoiles; Il Pleure Dans Mon Coeur; Les Rodeurs de Nuit; Elegie; Au Bord de l'Eau; Les Cloches;

Inspired by Clara Schumann's setting of Heinrich Heine's text in Sie liebten sich beide (Op. 13, No. 2), this modern original setting seeks to maintain the simplicity, structure, clarity and

On a text by Tim Hopkins, this song was commissioned in 2014 by the Welsh National Opera, Ffilm Cymru Wales and The Space as part of WNO's Occupation: Five Songs That Shook the World. It was first

This work consists of three Latin texts from the Requiem Mass. The first, Exaudi, is in larghetto tempo and serves as a prelude. The composition is based on a plaintive three-note descending

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

Richard Nickson wrote the texts for these three songs by Larry Allan Smith for tenor or soprano soloist and piano. These modern pieces resemble the songs of Benjamin Britten in their use of the voice,

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

Composed in 1989, one of Hall's earliest compositions, this collection of ten short songs on children's poetry by the great English poet Walter de la Mare is fanciful, charming, humorous, endearing,

Natural History is a work by Judith Weir for Soprano and Orchestra. The work sets four brief texts taken from Chuang Tzu, a classical collection of Taoist writings from the 4th, 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE.

This enthralling song cycle was a finalist in the National Association of Teachers of Singing's 2006 Art Song Composition competition. Using Sara Teasdale's texts, these six songs follow a progression of

Set on texts of love by Elie H. Haddad, this song cycle explores the the love story of the writer and his wife during their courtship. The composer sets the lyrics with artistry, playfulness and emotion to

Here's a charming duet (or duel!) between a woman who loves music and a man who loves poetry, from a text by Richard Barnfield written in 1598. The battle begins with a flourish of alternating lines traded