VOCALISES AND OTHER "SONGS WITHOUT WORDS"
Voice unspecified unless noted. Accompaniment is piano unless otherwise noted.
Isabelle Aboulker: Je t'aime (Vocalise amoureuse pour Soprano éperdue)
Voice: coloratura soprano
Accompaniment: orchestra
Murray Adaskin: Simple tune without words (1981)
Accompaniment: piano & percussion (a china bowl)
Albert Ahlstrom: Vocalise
Accompaniment: harp
Jehan Alain: Vocalise dorienne (1937)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: organ
Rod Anderson: Song No. 3 for Merike (2004)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: flute, piano
Hector Armienta: The Temptress of Rome (2002)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: none
Georges Auric: Imaginées IV
Voice: high
Michael C. Baker: Vocalise, Op. 55
Voice: high or medium
Alexander Bakshi: Sonata (1989)
Alexander Bakshi: Game in Installations (1992)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: 6 percussionists
Alexander Bakshi: Orpheus and Euridice (2001)
Voice: tenor
Accompaniment: mixed chorus, cello, French horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba
Dennis Báthory-Kitsz: By Still Waters
Accompaniment: drone on D by cello, viola da gamba, organ, theremin
Angelo Bellisario: Vocalise
Voice: mezzo-soprano
Accompaniment: viola
Richard Rodney Bennett: Vocalese (1981)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: piano
Erik Bergman: Lament and Incantation, Op. 106
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: cello
René Bernier: Parabole chantée en forme de vocalise (1979)
Helmut Bieler: Polymerie I (1972)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: violin, flute, piano, percussion
Helmut Bieler: Stimme über den Saiten (version 1, 1973)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: clavichord/harpsichord
Helmut Bieler: Stimme über den Saiten (version 2, 1974)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: violin, clavichord/harpsichord, tape, live electronics
Snorri Sigfús Birgisson: No. 4 "Vókalísa (Vocalise)" from Lysting er sæt að söng (Four Songs from Old Icelandic Manuscripts)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: cello
Howard Blake: Sleepwalking
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: 8 cellos
Arthur Bliss: Vocalise (No. 3 from Four Songs)
Voice: unspecified
Accompaniment: violin
Arthur Bliss: Concerto (1923)
Voice: tenor
Accompaniment: piano, strings and percussion
C. Boone: Vocalise (1987)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: none
Tor Brevik: Elegy for Chamber Ensemble (1964)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: viola, contrabass, 2 percussion
Radie Britain: Barcarola (To Edgardo) (1961)
Margaret Brouwer: Winter Dream (2000)
Voice: soprano
Karsten Brustad: Meditation (1981)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: flute, guitar
Mark Bucci: Vocalise (from Concerto for a Singing Instrument) (1959)
Voice: soprano
Walter Buczynski: Vocalise from Cradle Song, Vocalise, and Elegy (1983)
Voice: baritone
Accompaniment: violin, piano
John Cage: Duet Part 2 of She is Asleep (1943)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: prepared piano (4 pieces of rubber inserted between strings of 4 high piano keys)
John Cage: Dances No. 2 and No.4 from Four Dances (What So Proudly We Hail) (1942)
Voice: tenor
Accompaniment: Dance 2: prepared piano, handclap; Dance 4: handclap, footstomp, tom tom
John Cage: A Flower,
Accompaniment: closed piano
John Cage: Music for...
Accompaniment: any combination of the following: flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, horn, trombone, up to 2 pianos, up to 4 percussion instruments, strings (NOTE: There is no set quantity or combination of instruments in the score. The title of the work should be completed based on the voice type of the singer and combination of accompaniment instruments used in the given performance, e.g., "Music for soprano and six instruments")
Philippe Capdenat: Vocalise
Voice: high
Joseph Canteloube: Vocalise-étude en forme de bourrée
Voice: medium
William Carnell: Elegy in the form of a Vocalise
Voice: mezzo-soprano or soprano
Accompaniment: string orchestra
Wilbur Chenoweth: Vocalise
Voice: soprano
Aaron Copland: Vocalise-étude (1928)
Voice: high
John Corigliano: Vocalise (1999)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: electronics, orchestra
Henry Cowell & Phyllis Bryn-Julson: Vocalise
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: unspecified ensemble
Henry Cowell: Vocalise (1964)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: flute, piano
Daniel Steven Crafts: Vocalise No. 3
Voice: soprano or mezzo-soprano
Daniel Steven Crafts: Six Wordless Arias
George Crumb: Three Vocalises from Apparition (1979) (Summer Sounds, Invocation, and Death Carol - Song of the Nightbird) (1979)
Voice: mezzo-soprano or soprano
Accompaniment: amplified piano
Michael G. Cunningham: Vocalise, Op. 82b (1979)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: organ
Peter Maxwell Davies: My Lady Lothian's Lilt
Voice: mezzo-soprano obbligato
Accompaniment: unspecified instrumental ensemble
Victor Davies: Anerca (Three Eskimo Chants: A Ballet) (1969)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: violins, percussion, piano or celeste
Manuel de Elías: Vocalise (1994)
Voice: baritone
Raoul De Smet: Vocalise No. 1 (1986)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: B flat clarinet
Raoul De Smet: Vocalise No. 2 (1986)
Voice: soprano
Mark De Voto: Fever-Dream Vocalise (1968)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: flute, cello, piano, percussion
Jan Decadt: Vocalise
Voice: medium
Louis De Meester: Vocalise (1976)
Raoul De Smet: Vocalise No. 3 (1987)
Voice: baritone
Accompaniment: trombone
David Diamond: Vocalises (ca. 1966)
Accompaniment: viola
Vincent d'Indy: Vocalise, op. 64
Voice: high
Hans-Ola Ericsson: Vocalise (from Höga Visan, a church opera)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: organ
Karl-Axel Falk: Canto gratia (Vocalise) (1986)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: a cappella
Gabriel Fauré: Vocalise-étude
Voice: soprano
Morton Feldman: Vocalise from Neither (1977)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: chamber orchestra
Morton Feldman: For Franz Kline
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: horn, piano, chimes, violin, cello
Eugenio Fels: Vocalise
Voice: soprano
Eugenio Fels: Vocalise
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: orchestra, piano
Eugenio Fels: Vocalise
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: six unspecified instruments
William Ferris: Vocalise (1985)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: harpsichord, organ
Ross Fiddes: Vocalise (from Heloise and Abelard)
Voice: lyric soprano
Accompaniment: unspecified
Adrian Vernon Fish: Hymn to St. Piran
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: guitar
Keith Gates: Vocalise for Soprano (1968)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: unspecified
Helen Gifford: Music of the Spheres
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: tam-tam
Philip Glass: Madeline Usher's aria from The Fall of the House of Usher
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: 1(picc).0.1.1/1.0.0.0/elec.guit./1 perc (SD, TD, BD, tam-t, tamb, cym, tgl, wdbl, maracas)/ syn/ str (2.1.1.1.1)
Philip Glass and Robert Wilson: Jacob's Ladder from the CIVIL warS, Act V
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: orchestra
Reinhold Glière: Concerto for Coloratura Soprano and Orchestra, Op. 82
Voice: coloratura soprano
Accompaniment: orchestra
Mikhail Glinka: Vocalise in E flat Major
Accompaniment: piano
Patrick Hadley: The Last Memory
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: cello, orchestra
Howard Haigh: The dream of the cat thing (1984)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: drone instrument, e.g., cello, guitar, double bass
Calvin Hampton: Vocalise (1972)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: orchestral bells
Ron Hannah: Vocalise, from Vocalise and Song (1990)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: percussion quintet
Walter Hartley: Saturday Afternoon
Voice: soprano or alto
Accompaniment: vibraphone
Josef Haselbach: Abendlied ohne Worte
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: none
Anthony Hedges: Vocalise, Op. 90
Voice: high
Mikko Heiniö: Piano Concerto No. 6, "Hermes" (1994)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: string orchestra, piano, dancer(s)
Paavo Heininen: Cantico delle creature, Op. 17
Voice: baritone
Accompaniment: organ or orchestra or piano
Martin Hennessy: Silent Night
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: cello
Martin Hennessy: Vocalise for Countertenor and Piano (2000)
Voice: countertenor
Dorothy Hill Mewes: Three vocalises from Dreaming (1992)
Accompaniment: Vocalise 2: flute and piano
Arthur Honegger: Vocalise-étude
Accompaniment: piano
Michael Iatauro: Southwest Cantos
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: piano or synthesiser
Jacques Ibert: Aria
Voice: medium
Accompaniment: flute, piano
Odd-Arne Jacobsen: Vocalise (1983)
Voice: medium
Accompaniment: guitar
Leos Janacek: Third Movement of Dunaj (Danube)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: viola, (orchestra?)
Julie Kabat: Invocation in Centrifugal Form
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: glass harmonium
Kevin Kaska: Song without Words
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: strings
Lydia Kavina: In Whims of the Wind (1994)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: theremin
Nigel Keay: Vocalise (1978)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: vibraphone, string trio
Wojciech Kilar: Vocalise - Theme from The Ninth Gate (from soundtrack for the film)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: orchestra
Betty Jackson King: Vocalise
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: cello, piano
Dmytro (Dmitri) Klebanov: Symphony No. 1 in A minor "In memory of the victims of Babyn Yar", 3rd Movement (1945)
Voice: contralto
Accompaniment: orchestra
Frederick Koch: City Moon
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: flute, piano
Zoltán Kodály: Epigrammák (Epigrams) - nine vocalises
Voice: medium
Accompaniment: solo string or woodwind instrument, piano
Charles Koechlin: En Route vers le Bonheur - and - Skating-Smiling, from Album de Lilian, Op. 139
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: flute, piano
Jaroslav Krcek: Four Pieces for flute, soprano, and harp, without text (1967)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: flute, harp
Yoko Kurimoto: June End Songs (1984)
Accompaniment: alto recorder, guitar
Ann LaBerge: Indeed (1986)
Voice: medium
Accompaniment: flute
Jean Langlais: Vocalise
Voice: high
Robert Lannoy: Vocalise (1951)
Voice: soprano
Otto Laske: Vocalise (1982)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: cello, percussion
Chris Lastovicka: The End of Tyranny
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: violin, horn, cello, piano
Noël Lee: Pastorale-Vocalise (1987)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: horn
Dominique Lemaître: Vocalise
Voice: soprano
Jean-Luc LePage: Apparitions (1998) (3 vocalises)
Terje Bjorn Lerstad: Til Elise Merete, Op. 190 B (1988)
Accompaniment: unaccompanied
Otto Luening: Suite
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: flute
Otto Luening: Trio
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: flute, violin
Martin Mailman: For precious friends, Op. 80 (1988) - III. Which by and by black night doth take away
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: upper woodwinds
Tauno Marttinen: Pohjolan neiti (The Maid of Pohjola) (1984)
Voice: mezzo-soprano
Accompaniment: orchestra
Bohuslav Martinu: Vocalise-é No. 112
Voice: medium
Kikuko Masumoto: Vocalise
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: shakuhachi
Nikolai Medtner: Suite-Vocalise, Op. 41 No. 2
Voice: high
Nikolai Medtner: Sonata-Vocalise, Op. 41 No. 1
Voice: high
Polina Medyulyanova: Iltijo (No. 1 from Bukhara Notebook) (1996)
Voice: tenor
Accompaniment: 5 percussion instruments
Polina Medyulyanova: Visionary (2004)
Voice: soprano
Frédéric Meinders: Vocalises No. 1 & No. 2
Olivier Messiaen: Vocalise (1935)
Olivier Messiaen: Vocalise-étude No. 151 (1935)
Voice: high
Darius Milhaud: Vocalise-étude No. 88
Voice: high
Paul-Baudouin Michel: Vocalise "Orfeo" (1996)
Voice: high
Paul-Baudouin Michel: Vocalise "Colora" (1996)
Voice: medium
Paul-Baudouin Michel: Vocalise "Escamillo" (1996)
Voice: baritone
Paul-Baudouin Michel: Vocalise "Preciosa" (2001)
Voice: high or medium
Virgilio Mortari: Canzone
Accompaniment: flute
Raymond Moulaert: Étude vocalise (1925)
Voice: soprano
Raymond Moulaert: Vocalise valse lente (1934)
Voice: soprano
Raymond Moulaert: Vocalise pour contralto (1932)
Voice: contralto
Raymond Moulaert: Passacaille sur un thème de Jean-Sébastien Bach (1932)
Voice: soprano
Vernon Murgatroyd: A Sixty-measure Vocalise (1999)
Vojciech Matuszewski: Vocalise for mezzo-soprano (or a dramatic soprano) and piano left hand (1990)
Voice: mezzo-soprano or dramatic soprano
Accompaniment: piano, left hand
Carl Nielsen: Vocalise-etude (1927)
Voice: soprano
Tapio Nevanlinna: Pst! (from Five Pieces for Female Voice and Vibraphone) (1981)
Voice: medium
Accompaniment: vibraphone
Ryszard Osada: Impression with Vocalise (1994)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: flute, cello, piano
Ali Osman: Vocalise (1984)
Voice: soprano
Terry Winter Owens: Air for Voice
Accompaniment: flute, piano
Andrzej Panufnik: Hommage à Chopin (5 vocalises) (1949/1955)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: piano
Ian Parrott: The Magic Island
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: recorder, piano
Randolph Peters: Looking for Harmonies (1996)
Voice: mezzo-soprano
Accompaniment: flute, clarinet, bassoon, 2 guitars, double bass, piano, accordion, percussion
Laurent Petitgirard: Vocalise (2001)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: orchestra
Jonathan Pieslak: Vocalise (2002)
Voice: soprano
Raoul Pleskow: Vocalise (1986)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: clarinet, piano
Francis Poulenc: Vocalise-étude No. 89
André Previn: Vocalise (1995)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: cello, piano
Sergei Prokofiev: Pesem bez slov (cinq mélodies), op. 35
Voice: high
Marta Ptaszyńska: Vocalise (1971)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: vibraphone
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14
Voice: high
Maurice Ravel: Pièce en forme de habanera (1907)
Aribert Reimann: Vocalise
Voice: coloratura soprano
Accompaniment: none
Aribert Reimann: Vokalisen für sechs verschiedene Stimmlagen (2006)
Accompaniment: none
Jean Rivier: Vocalise
Voice: mezzo-soprano
Accompaniment: flute
Norbert Rosseau: Vingt-quatre vocalises dodécaphoniques, Op. 55 (1955)
Voice: medium
Nino Rota: Vocalizzi per Soprano leggero e Pianoforte (1957)
Voice: light lyric/coloratura soprano
Accompaniment: piano
Albert Roussel: 2 Vocalises, WoO
Francis Routh: Vocalise, Op. 38
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: B flat clarinet, violin, cello, piano
Ronald Clifton Roxbury: Insect Fear (1972-73)
Voice: countertenor
Jeremy Sagala: Divination (1997)
Voice: soprano
Camille Saint-Saëns: Le Rossignol et la Rose
Voice: soprano
Claudio Franco de Sá Santoro: Fantasia sul America
Voice: high
Eric Sawyer: Vocalise (2004)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: electronic playback
Eric Sawyer: Song without Words (1998)
Voice: mezzo-soprano
Peter Schickele: Two Pleasant Songs
Voice: soprano (or flute)
Alfred Schnittke: Drei Szenen
Accompaniment: percussion ensemble
John Heilman Schooley: Vocalise (1973)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: piano or orchestra
John Heilman Schooley: Vocalise (1973)
Voice: baritone
Accompaniment: trombone
Patrice Sciortino: Vocalise au moulin
Voice: high
José Serebrier: Canción sin nombre y sin palabras, Nos. 1 & 2 (1956/58)
Voice: high
José Sebrier: Symphony No. 3
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: strings
Rodion Shchedrin: Three Vocalises
Voice: high
Clare Shore: Four Vocalises
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: mandolin
Ferdinand Sieber: Vocalise in F Major, Op. 31
Andrew Earle Simpson: Klytemnetra's Vocalise, from Scene 5 of The Libation Bearers
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: orchestra
Dave Smith: Vocalise, #3 from Four Songs (1982)
Voice: soprano
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji: Vocalise pour soprano fioriturata, Op. 2, No. 3 (1916)
Voice: coloratura soprano
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji: Movement (1927-31)
Voice: high
Bent Sørensen: Vokalise (2001)
Voice: mezzo-soprano
Accompaniment: violin
Mira J. Spektor: Voice in the Wind (from Double Edge)
Voice: mezzo-soprano
Accompaniment: cello or tape
Lewis Spratlan: Vocalise with Duck (1998)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: clarinet, B clarinet, viola, cello, contrabass
Ken Stoeffler: I see it
Voice: soprano
Igor Stravinsky: Pastorale Vocalise (1907)
Voice: soprano
Igor Stravinsky: Pastorale Vocalise (1923), transcription by composer
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: wind quartet
Karol Szymanowski: Vocalise-étude (1928)
Voice: soprano
Olav Anton Thommesssen: Ein Lied ohne Worte
Voice: soprano
Olav Anton Thommesssen: Gratias Agimus (1st version, 1982)
Voice: coloratura soprano
Olav Anton Thommesssen: Gratias Agimus (2nd version, 1988)
Voice: soprano
Olav Anton Thommesssen: Overtonen
Henri Tomasi: Chant corse
Voice: mezzo-soprano
André Waignein: Little Vocalise (1990)
Voice: high
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 3 "Pastoral Symphony", final movement
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: orchestra
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Vocalise, in the "Aria (Cantilena)" from Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: 8 cellos
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Vocalise from The Forest of the Amazon (1958)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: orchestra
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Three Vocalises
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: B flat clarinet
Dalit Hadass Warshaw: Vocalise (1995)
Voice: soprano
Martin Johannes Wenberg: Vocalise
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: clarinet, piano
Alec Wilder: Vocalise #1-5
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: wind ensemble or piano
Iannis Xénnakis: Akanthos,
Voice: soprano or mezzo-soprano
Accompaniment: flute doubling piccolo and alto flute, clarinet doubling bass clarinet, piano, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass
Iannis Xénnakis: Pour Maurice
Voice: baritone
Ge-Suk Yeo: Time Sculptures I (2005)
Accompaniment: electronic instrument
Long Zhou: Green Song
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: guitar, pipa, or marimba
Eric Zindar: Dreams Are These
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: piano or string orchestra
John Zorn: rituals (1998)
Voice: soprano or mezzo-soprano
Accompaniment: piccolo, alto flute, E flat and B clarinets, bassoon, trombone, 2 percussion, piano, celesta, organ, harpsichord, violin, cello, bass, wind machine, wooden gears, sounds of gravedigging, bull roarer, bird squeaker, stochastics
John Zorn: Chimeras (2001)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: flute, cello, percussion, keyboard, violin, cello
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