New Song Form

This form should be used to add a song that is not currently in the Song Catalog. If you want to only give a review, an edition, or a correction of a song that is already here, use this form.

Before you start, this is how the process will work: when you submit this form, I will put your information on the site and give you credit or not, as you wish, following your collective decision for all the songs you contribute. And I will never charge others to see the information you have given me for free. For our safety, when you submit the information to daringdiva.com you grant us full rights to use it as we wish. If this seems OK to you, go ahead. If you see a better way to do this please tell me.

Please only contribute songs about which you have an overall positive opinion. Filling out this form takes about five or ten minutes.

Basic Song facts

Title (Include English translation, if app.):
Composer (last name, first name):

Approximate Time Period or Style:

Song Cycle (leave blank if it is not part of a cycle) (Include English translation, if app.):

Order within the song cycle (if app.; type number only, e.g. first = 1):

Check this box if this song can be extracted (performed outside the cycle)

Poet/ Author (last name, first name):
Text source (the work from which the song text comes, e.g. Bible):

Original Language of song (not neccesarily the original poem's):

Narrator's Gender in the text (select one or both if either):

Male: Female:

If the composer specifies a certain Voice type for this song, type it here:
If known, the singer who Premiered this song and his or her voice type:

Edition Information

For multiple editions, enter one here then use the Song Addition or Correction Form to add more.

Mark this box if this edition is in the Original key:

The voice part's Clef in this edition:

The edition's printed Range (C4 is middle C--click here for more information; use pound "#" for sharp and lowercase-b "b" for flat):

Low extreme
to High extreme

Basic Voice Types that could conceivably use this edition (select as many as applicable):	Low voice (bass, contralto, low mezzo): Middle voice (baritone, mezzo): High Voice (Tenor, Soprano):
Mark this box if the voice in this piece is not accompanied by one piano only:
List the accomanying instruments (or "a capella") if you checked the box above (if eight or fewer instruments please list instruments with no abbreviations; if more than eight then type "chamber: ", "orchestra: ", or other description of the ensemble and then summarize or abbreviate the components of the ensemble)

Collection, Publisher, or Source (whatever information someone would need to obtain a copy and to distinguish this edition from others) (If you are submitting a song in an anthology, try first submitting the bibliographical information for the anthology here, then just referring back to the anthology here:

If a special (e.g., not standard like T.I.S.) web site is a source of the music, type the full web site address here:

Extended information

Musical comments:

If a special web site gives good information about the music, type the full address here:

Textual Comments:

If a special web site gives good information about the text, type the full address here:

Commercial Recordings (include recording title, singer, publication year, and label, e.g., Sony Classical, RCA Red Label, etc.) (if you are submitting several songs which are on one disc, try submitting the recording here then referring to it here):

If a book gives especially good information about this song, type the title and author here:

What is your familiarity with this song?

Take credit

Please tell me who you are and give me a way to get in touch with you for questions. If you ask for anonymity using the checkboxes below I will give it. The most recent decision you make about anonymity affects all of your contributions--it is a 'global' decision.

Your name:

Mark this box if you do not want to have your name listed on the web site with the information you provide.

Your email address:

Mark this box if you do not want your email address listed on the web site with the information you provide.

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Thank you!

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