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Art Song
 In addition to the links listed below, this site is home to DaringDiva's Descriptive Art Song Catalog. Please give it a look.
Browse through the links below or see the category menu on the left. See the Home page to read about the newest links, books, and songs I've added, or subscribe to the newsletter.
There are lots of links elsewhere on the site that are pertinent to art song. Particularly do not miss the General Singing page. It includes links to translation and diction sites, myth and symbol interpretation sites, and general interest singing sites. Finally, don't forget the Singer's Bibliography, which includes books about art song, repertoire, diction, translation, transliteration, etc. Enjoy!
 The sites that I think are particularly practical for day-to-day work are marked with a toolbox icon. Many of the other sites are also excellent and worth your perusal.
General-purpose Art Song Links
- Texts of Lieder and Art Songs a great site with many, many texts, some translations, and some transliterations. Could be a life-saver! For some reason people some times think this is part of daringdiva.com--nope!
- Mozilla Open Directory Project Lieder links a great list of even more links to art song resources.
- Classical MIDI with Words a free MIDI player that also shows the words as they appear; many art song files available
- Lieder-L discussion list for art songs; also see the archive for past postings.
- Our own message board for contemporary (and unusual) art song.
- GOpera although the title suggests otherwise, this site contains several song resources, particularly for German lieder. Also, OperaCat is a free database program available there which apparently includes a searchable database of lieder recordings, opera recordings or both.
- Classical Vocal Reprints--I include CVR here because they may be the most complete source for purchasing art song in the world. Please try them out! Other catalogs and publishers can be found here and here. Classical Vocal Reprints/ 3253 Cambridge Ave./ Riverdale, NY 10463-3618/ email: ClasVocRep@aol.com/ tel: (800)298-7474 or (718)601-1959/ fax: (718)601-1969
Catalogs
- The Diva's Descriptive Art Song Catalog (at this site)
- British Song Database Go here! A searchable database of British song! almost 6000 songs! Includes many publisher addresses.
- HFA Song List a searchable database
Composers and Bios
If you are looking for large collections of biographies of well-known (and some leser-known!) composers, try the music link page's general information section.
- More composers and bios in this site's Art Song Catalog!
- The Schubert Institute (UK)
- Lee Hoiby
- Richard Hundley
- Marc Blitzstein
- William Bolcom and Joan Morris (famous composer and famous mezzo, respectively; married. Lovely site!)
- Libby Larsen
- Ernst Bacon Society
- Daron Hagen
- Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
- Robert Convery
- Leonard Lehrman
- Robert Maggio
- Derek Strahan
- The Davidsbündler Home Page
- The Artsong Collective dated British site, but includes biographies of art song composers Denis ApIvor, Bernard van Dieren, Francis George Scott, Alan Bush, Ronald Stevenson, and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Festivals and programs
- New York Festival of Song
- Steans Institute for Young Artists at the Ravinia Festival
- Ann Arbor Festival of Song
- Cleveland Institute of Music Art Song Festival
Singers
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and, if you read German, another one
- Teresa Zylis-Gara
- Thomas Quasthoff (in German, from GOpera)
- Sarah Walker (a well-done, fun website officially connected with this great British mezzo)
- Dawn Upshaw (an unofficial site but with some good info)
- Thomas Hampson
Special Focus
- African-American Art Song Alliance (see particularly this essay and this composer list for excellent avenues to explore)
- Norwegian Vocal Music
Poetry Links
- Expansive Poetry and Music Online
- The Edge City Review Online (includes opera reviews)
- Poet links of 20th Century English poets (great collection!)
- A Time-line of English Poetry, 858-1998 (that's one big document! Impressive and--for me at least--useful. It is part of the also impressive Representative Poetry On-Line)
- Poets and Writers, Inc.
- Poets Corner
- The Academy of American Poets
- The Atlantic Monthly's Poetry Pages
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