Works for Solo Voice
and Unusual Instrument


HURDY-GURDY

Composer: Brian David Elias
Work: Solomonian Song (1986)
Voice: soprano

Composer: Chris Fox
Work: Trummermusik (1993)
Voice: mezzo-soprano

Composer: Matthias Kaul
Work: Listen this is for you (2000)
Voice: unspecified

Composer: Matthias Kaul
Work: Revolver (1999)
Voice: unspecified

Composer: Pierre Moret
Work: Moqueca de Peixe, Op. 55 (2005)
Voice: mezzo-soprano

Composer: Michael Parsons
Work: Three Songs from Skopelos (1992)
Voice: soprano

Composer: Christian Wolff
Work: For 1, 2 or 3 People for any instrument, Version 2 (1964)
Voice: unspecified


OCARINA

Composer: Joseph Klein
Work: Mr. P's Epitaph, from DEdi/seC(r)ATIONS (1986)
Voice: tenor


KALIMBA

Composer: Kim Erickson
Work: And the Bird (1981)
Voice: unspecified

Composer: Kim Erickson
Work: Fireweed (1983)
Voice: unspecified

Composer: Kim Erickson
Work: Hickory Dickory (1982)
Voice: unspecified

Composer: Kim Erickson
Work: Pick It Up (1982)
Voice: unspecified

Composer: Julie Kabat
Work: Kalimba Alight
Voice: unspecified


CHIMES

Composer: Morton Feldman
Work: arrangement of Thomas Campion's "Followe Thy Faire Sunne" (1962)
Voice: unspecified

Composer: Alexander Knaifel
Work: Der Tag (Wie durch einen Zweig) (1999)
Voice: soprano

Composer: Andrzej Krzanowski
Work: Relief IV (1985)
Voice: soprano
Note: Composer specifies "tubular bells"


BELLS

Composer: Milton Babbitt
Work: Play on Notes
Voice: unspecified
Note: Composer specifies "melody bells"

Composer: Jean Catoire
Work: Requiem Antiphons, Op. 195 (1970)
Voice: mezzo-soprano

Composer: Philip Corner
Work: Gamelan VOX, Op. 101
Voice: unspecified
Note: Composer also specifies "body slaps by one player" (as percussion)

Composer: Calvin Hampton
Work: Vocalise (1972)
Voice: soprano
Note: Composer specifies "orchestral bells"

Composer: Libby Larsen
Work: Hell's Belles (2001)
Voice: mezzo-soprano
Note: Composer specifies "handbells"

Composer: Ted Mann
Work: Magnificat
Voice: soprano
Note: Composer specifies "handbells"

Composer: Mary Sallee
Work: I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day (original version)
Voice: soprano
Note: Composer specifies "handbells"

Composer: John Tavener
Work: Lamentation, Last prayer and exaltation (1977)
Voice: soprano
Note: Composer specifies "handbells"

Composer: John Tavener
Work: The Last Prayer of Mary Queen of Scots (1978)
Voice: soprano
Note: Composer specifies "handbells"

Composer: David York
Work: The Bells (2001)
Voice: unspecified
Note: Composer specifies "handbells"


AUTOHARP

Composer: Calvin Hampton
Work: Magnificat (1974)
Voice: soprano


TOY PIANO

[toy piano] Composer: Jessica Constable
Work: Toy Suite (2000)
Voice: unspecified

Composer: Philip Corner
Work: Classical (1982/2001)
Voice: unspecified
Note: Composer specifies "for singing toy pianist"

Composer: Joe Cutler
Work: La Maison de Fred (2001)
Voice: unspecified
Note: Composer specifies "for singing, speaking, whistling toy pianist"

Composer: Paul Hogan
Work: Frances
Voice: unspecified

Composer: Jerome Kitzke
Work: The Animist Child (1994)
Voice: unspecified
Note: Composer also specifies foot stomps (as percussion)

Composer: Roderik de Man
Work: Transports (2002)
Voice: unspecified


DIDGERIDOO

Composer: Michael Askill
Work: Free_radicals (Parts 4 and 5)
Voice: unspecified
Note: Also calls for percussion

Composer: Ge-Suk Yeo
Work: In (2003)
Voice: soprano


WINE GLASS

Composer: Meredith Monk
Work: Our Lady of Late (1973 version)
Voice: soprano


HARMONICA

Composer: Sven Erik Werner:
Work: Sange for Baryton & Harmonika
Voice: baritone


SHOFAR

Composer: Jeff Hamburg
Work: Eich Echetsov Shir (2003)
Voice: baritone


TELEGRAPH WIRES

Composer: Alan Lamb and Sarah Hopkins
Work: Mirages
Voice: unspecified

Composer: Alan Lamb and Sarah Hopkins
Work: New Journey
Voice: unspecified

Composer: Alan Lamb and Sarah Hopkins
Work: Sky Song
Voice: unspecified

Composer: Alan Lamb and Sarah Hopkins
Work: The winds of heaven
Voice: unspecified


ALSO NOTEWORTHY



Composer: P.D.Q. Bach
Work: Four Folksong Upsettings
Voice: mezzanine soprano
Instruments: ocarina, pastaphone (made of manicotti and played like a trumpet [more or less]), Schlaggenfrappe (paper towel rolls of various lengths struck against the singer's head), tuba mirum (a flexible tube partly filled with liquid manipulated to produce different tones), piano

Composer: Hans Ulrich Lehmann
Work: Canticum II (1981)
Voice: soprano
Instruments: melodious instruments (2 or more) - "The realisation of intricate sound details is left to the possibilities of the chosen instruments and the musical imagination of their interpreters."

If you know of any works for solo voice and any of the instruments listed above, or any other unusual accompaniment instruments (including those listed below), please email me the details at:   s i n g w i t h t h e s p i r i t [at] y a h o o [dot] c o m
  • pan flute
  • kazoo
  • Jew's harp/jaw harp
  • penny whistle
  • bagpipes
  • toy xylophone
  • mellophone
  • saxhorn
  • sackbut
  • bazooka
  • Alphorn (Alpine Horn)
  • conch shell


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