VOCALISES AND OTHER "SONGS WITHOUT WORDS"
Unless a specific voice type is noted, the work can by sung by any voice type with the required range/tessitura.
Vocalises for chorus are not included here, though chorus may be included as "accompaniment" for some of the vocalises listed.
VOICE UNSPECIFIED
Albert Ahlstrom: Vocalise
Accompaniment: harp
Alexander Bakshi: Sonata (1989)
Accompaniment: piano
Dennis Báthory-Kitsz: By Still Waters
Accompaniment: drone on D by cello, viola da gamba, organ, theremin
Radie Britain: Barcarola (To Edgardo) (1961)
Accompaniment: piano
John Cage: Music for...
Voice: any
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")
Daniel Steven Crafts: Six Wordless Arias
Accompaniment: piano
Mikhail Glinka: Vocalise in E flat Major
Accompaniment: piano
Calvin Hampton: Vocalise (1972)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: orchestral bells
Yoko Kurimoto: June End Songs (1984)
Accompaniment: alto recorder, guitar
Jean-Luc LePage: Apparitions (1998) (3 vocalises)
Accompaniment: piano
Terje Bjorn Lerstad: Til Elise Merete, Op. 190 B (1988)
Accompaniment: a cappella
Frédéric Meinders: Vocalises No. 1 & No. 2
Accompaniment: piano
Olivier Messiaen: Vocalise (1935)
Accompaniment: piano
Virgilio Mortari: Canzone
Accompaniment: flute
Vernon Murgatroyd: A Sixty-measure Vocalise (1999)
Accompaniment: piano
Terry Winter Owens: Air for Voice
Accompaniment: flute, piano
Marta Ptaszyńska: Vocalise (1971)
Voice: female
Accompaniment: vibraphone
Aribert Reimann: Vokalisen für sechs verschiedene Stimmlagen (2006)
Accompaniment: a cappella
Albert Roussel: 2 Vocalises, WoO
Accompaniment: piano
Ferdinand Sieber: Vocalise in F Major, Op. 31
Accompaniment: piano
Karol Szymanowski: Vocalise-étude (1928)
Accompaniment: piano
Olav Anton Thommesssen: Overtonen
Accompaniment: piano
Ge-Suk Yeo: Time Sculptures I (2005)
Accompaniment: electronic instrument
Long Zhou: Green Song
Accompaniment: guitar
HIGH VOICE
Isabelle Aboulker: Je t'aime (Vocalise amoureuse pour Soprano éperdue)
Voice: coloratura soprano
Accompaniment: orchestra
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: a cappella
Georges Auric: Imaginées IV
Accompaniment: piano
Michael C. Baker: Vocalise, Op. 55
Voice: high or medium
Accompaniment: piano
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
Erik Bergman: Lament and Incantation, Op. 106
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: cello
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
Howard Blake: Sleepwalking
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: 8 cellos
C. Boone: Vocalise (1987)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: a cappella
Tor Brevik: Elegy for Chamber Ensemble (1964)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: viola, contrabass, 2 percussion
Margaret Brouwer: Winter Dream (2000)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: piano
Karsten Brustad: Meditation (1981)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: flute, guitar
John Cage: A Flower,
Accompaniment: closed piano
Philippe Capdenat: Vocalise
Accompaniment: piano
William Carnell: Elegy in the form of a Vocalise
Voice: soprano or mezzo
Accompaniment: string orchestra
Wilbur Chenoweth: Vocalise
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: piano
Aaron Copland: Vocalise-étude (1928)
Accompaniment: piano
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
Accompaniment: piano
Michael G. Cunningham: Vocalise, Op. 82b (1979)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: organ
Victor Davies: Anerca (Three Eskimo Chants: A Ballet) (1969)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: violins, percussion, piano or celeste
Raoul De Smet: Vocalise No. 1 (1986)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: B flat clarinet
Raoul De Smet: Vocalise No. 2 (1986)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: piano
Mark De Voto: Fever-Dream Vocalise (1968)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: flute, cello, piano, percussion
David Diamond: Vocalises (ca. 1966)
Accompaniment: viola
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
Accompaniment: piano
Morton Feldman: For Franz Kline
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: horn, piano, chimes, violin, cello
Eugenio Fels: Vocalise
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: piano
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
Helen Gifford: Music of the Spheres
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: tam-tam
Reinhold Glière: Concerto for Coloratura Soprano and Orchestra, Op. 82
Voice: coloratura soprano
Accompaniment: orchestra
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
Walter Hartley: Saturday Afternoon
Voice: soprano or alto
Accompaniment: vibraphone
Josef Haselbach: Abendlied ohne Worte
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: a cappella
Anthony Hedges: Vocalise, Op. 90
Voice: soprano or tenor
Accompaniment: piano
Martin Hennessy: Silent Night
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: cello
Arthur Honegger: Vocalise-étude
Accompaniment: piano
Michael Iatauro: Southwest Cantos
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: piano or synthesiser
Vincent d'Indy: Vocalise, op. 64
Accompaniment: piano
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
Betty Jackson King: Vocalise
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: cello, piano
Frederick Koch: City Moon
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: flute, piano
Charles Koechlin: En Route vers le Bonheur - and - Skating-Smiling, from Album de Lilian, Op. 139
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: flute, piano
Jean Langlais: Vocalise
Accompaniment: piano
Robert Lannoy: Vocalise (1951)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: piano
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
Accompaniment: piano
Otto Luening: Suite
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: flute
Otto Luening: Trio
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: flute, violin
Kikuko Masumoto: Vocalise
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: shakuhachi
Nikolai Medtner: Suite-Vocalise, Op. 41 No. 2
Accompaniment: piano
Nikolai Medtner: Sonata-Vocalise, Op. 41 No. 1
Accompaniment: piano
Polina Medyulyanova: Visionary (2004)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: piano
Olivier Messiaen: Vocalise-étude No. 151 (1935 )
Accompaniment: piano
Darius Milhaud: Vocalise-étude No. 88
Accompaniment: piano
Raymond Moulaert: Étude vocalise (1925)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: piano
Raymond Moulaert: Vocalise valse lente (1934)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: piano
Carl Nielsen: Vocalise-etude (1927)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: piano
Ryszard Osada: Impression with Vocalise (1994)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: flute, cello, piano
Ali Osman: Vocalise (1984)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: piano
Andrzej Panufnik: Hommage à Chopin (5 vocalises)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: piano
Ian Parrott: The Magic Island
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: recorder, piano
Laurent Petitgirard: Vocalise (2001)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: orchestra
Jonathan Pieslak: Vocalise (2002)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: piano
Raoul Pleskow: Vocalise (1986)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: clarinet, piano
Francis Poulenc: Vocalise-étude No. 89
Accompaniment: piano
André Previn: Vocalise (1995)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: cello, piano
Sergei Prokofiev: Pesem bez slov (cinq mélodies), op. 35
Accompaniment: piano
Marta Ptaszynska: Vocalise (1971)
Accompaniment: vibraphone
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14
Accompaniment: piano
Maurice Ravel: Pièce en forme de habanera (1907)
Voice: high or low
Accompaniment: piano
Aribert Reimann: Vocalise
Voice: coloratura soprano
Accompaniment: a cappella
Francis Routh: Vocalise, Op. 38
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: B flat clarinet, violin, cello, piano
Jeremy Sagala: Divination (1997)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: piano
Camille Saint-Saëns: Le Rossignol et la Rose
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: piano
Claudio Franco de Sá Santoro: Fantasia sul America
Voice: soprano or tenor
Accompaniment: piano
Eric Sawyer: Vocalise (2004)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: electronic playback
Peter Schickele: Two Pleasant Songs
Voice: soprano (or flute)
Accompaniment: piano
Alfred Schnittke: Drei Szenen
Accompaniment: percussion ensemble
John Heilman Schooley: Vocalise (1973)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: piano or orchestra
Patrice Sciortino: Vocalise au moulin
Accompaniment: piano
José Serebrier: Canción sin nombre y sin palabras, Nos. 1 & 2 (1956/58)
Accompaniment: piano
Rodion Shchedrin: Three Vocalises
Accompaniment: piano
Clare Shore: Four Vocalises
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: mandolin
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji: Vocalise pour soprano fioriturata, Op. 2, No. 3 (1916)
Voice: coloratura soprano
Accompaniment: piano
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji: Movement (1927-31)
Accompaniment: piano
Bent Sørensen: Vocalise (2001)
Voice: mezzo
Accompaniment: violin
Lewis Spratlan: Vocalise with Duck (1998)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: clarinet, B clarinet, viola, cello, contrabass
Ken Stoeffler: I see it
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: piano
Igor Stravinsky: Pastorale Vocalise (1907)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: piano
Igor Stravinsky: Pastorale Vocalise (1923), transcription by composer
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: wind quartet
Karol Szymanowski: Vocalise Etude (1928)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: piano
Olav Anton Thommesssen: Ein Lied ohne Worte
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: piano
Olav Anton Thommesssen: Gratias Agimus (1st version, 1982)
Voice: coloratura soprano
Accompaniment: piano
Olav Anton Thommesssen: Gratias Agimus (2nd version, 1988)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: piano
André Waignein: Little Vocalise (1990)
Accompaniment: piano
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Three Vocalises
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: B flat clarinet
Adrian Vernon Fish: Hymn to St. Piran
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: guitar
Dalit Hadass Warshaw: Vocalise (1995)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: piano
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
Accompaniment: flute doubling piccolo and alto flute, clarinet doubling bass clarinet, piano, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass
Long Zhou: Green Song
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: pipa or marimba
Eric Zindar: Dreams Are These
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: piano or string orchestra
John Zorn: rituals (1998)
Voice: soprano or mezzo
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
MEDIUM VOICE
Michael C. Baker: Vocalise, Op. 55
Voice: medium or high
Accompaniment: piano
Angelo Bellisario: Vocalise
Voice: mezzo
Accompaniment: viola
Joseph Canteloube: Vocalise-étude en forme de bourrée
Accompaniment: piano
William Carnell: Elegy in the form of a Vocalise
Voice: mezzo or soprano
Accompaniment: string orchestra
Daniel Steven Crafts: Vocalise No. 3
Voice: mezzo or soprano
Accompaniment: piano
Peter Maxwell Davies: My Lady Lothian's Lilt
Voice: mezzo obbligato
Accompaniment: unspecified instrumental ensemble
Jan Decadt: Vocalise
Accompaniment: piano
Raoul De Smet: Vocalise No. 3 (1987)
Voice: baritone
Accompaniment: trombone
Manuel de Elías: Vocalise (1994)
Voice: baritone
Accompaniment: piano
Ross Fiddes: Vocalise (from Heloise and Abelard)
Voice: lyric soprano
Accompaniment: piano
Jacques Ibert: Aria
Accompaniment: flute, piano
Odd-Arne Jacobsen: Vocalise (1983)
Accompaniment: guitar
Zoltán Kodály: Epigrammák (Epigrams) - nine vocalises
Accompaniment: solo string or woodwind instrument, piano
Ann LaBerge: Indeed (1986)
Accompaniment: flute
Bohuslav Martinu: Vocalise-é No. 112
Accompaniment: piano
Tapio Nevanlinna: Pst! (from Five Pieces for Female Voice and Vibraphone) (1981)
Accompaniment: vibraphone
Randolph Peters: Looking for Harmonies (1996)
Voice: mezzo
Accompaniment: flute, clarinet, bassoon, 2 guitars, double bass, piano, accordion, percussion
Jean Rivier: Vocalise
Voice: mezzo
Accompaniment: flute
Eric Sawyer: Song without Words (1998)
Voice: mezzo
Accompaniment: piano
John Heilman Schooley: Vocalise (1973)
Voice: baritone
Accompaniment: trombone
Bent Sørensen: Vocalise (2001)
Voice: mezzo
Accompaniment: violin
Mira J. Spektor: Voice in the Wind (from Double Edge)
Voice: mezzo
Accompaniment: cello or tape
Henri Tomasi: Chant corse
Voice: mezzo
Accompaniment: piano
Iannis Xénnakis: Pour Maurice
Voice: baritone
Accompaniment: piano
John Zorn: rituals
Voice: mezzo or 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
LOW VOICE
Walter Hartley: Saturday Afternoon
Voice: alto or soprano
Accompaniment: vibraphone
Martin Hennessy: Vocalise for Countertenor and Piano (2000)
Voice: countertenor
Accompaniment: piano
Raymond Moulaert: Vocalise pour contralto (1932)
Voice: contralto
Accompaniment: piano
Maurice Ravel: Pièce en forme de habanera (1907)
Voice: low or high
Accompaniment: piano
Ronald Clifton Roxbury: Insect Fear (1972-73)
Voice: countertenor
Accompaniment: piano
SMALL ENSEMBLE OF VOCAL SOLOISTS
Georges Bizet: Barcarolle
Voices: 2 sopranos
Accompaniment: piano
Arthur Bliss: Rhapsody (1919)
Voices: soprano, tenor
Accompaniment: flute, cor anglais, glockenspiel, snare drums, harp, string quartet
Brian Conn: Psiren Psalm I
Voices: soprano, mezzo
Accompaniment: handbells
Brian Conn: Psiren Psalm II (1997)
Voices: 2 sopranos, 1 mezzo
Accompaniment: string quartet, double bass, drums
Raoul De Smet: Vocalise No. 4 (1987)
Voices: soprano, mezzo
Matthew Ertz: Three Vocalises
Voices: soprano, alto, tenor, bass
Percy Grainger: Colonial Song, Version A, from Sentimentals
Voices: soprano, tenor
Accompaniment: harp, band or orchestra
Rahilia Hasanova: Dervish (1992)
Voices: tenor, bass
Accompaniment: string quartet
Orlando di Lasso (di Lassus): Cantiones sine textu, magnum opus XIII-XXIV
Voices: unspecified
Accompaniment: a cappella
Polina Medyulyanova: Revelatio (2000)
Voices: mezzo, tenor
Accompaniment: flute, oud, percussion, string orchestra
Polina Medyulyanova: Concerto (2002)
Voices: soprano, treble
Accompaniment: organ, percussion, string orchestra
Darius Milhaud: Symphonie pour petit orchestre, No. 6
Voices: soprano, contralto, tenor, bass
Accompaniment: oboe, cello
Franz Schubert: Sing-Üben, D.619
Voices: 2 sopranos
Accompaniment: piano
Tapio Tuomela: Vuolle duolle
Voices: contralto, baritone
Accompaniment: regal/organ
André Waignein: Little Vocalise (1990)
Voices: soprano, tenor
Accompaniment: piano
David Ward: The Death of Ferdia (opera in one act plus prologue - all sung parts are wordless)
Voices: soprano, mezzo, tenor, bass
Accompaniment: chamber orchestra, speaker, female dancer
James Wilding: Vocalise (1999)
Voices: 2 sopranos
Accompaniment: flute, two trombones, cello, double bass, piano
SOLO VOCALISES WITHIN LARGER WORKS
Hugo Alfvén: Symphony No. 4, Op. 39, "From the Outermost Skerries" (1919)
Voices: soprano, tenor
Accompaniment: violin, cello, Cor Anglais, orchestra
Alexander Bakshi: Vocalise from From the Red Book of Extinction
Voice: soprano (who must also be a dancer)
Accompaniment: 2 Russian folk voices, actress, piano
Alexander Bakshi: Vocalise from The Polyphony of the World
Voice: tenor
Accompaniment: Abakan-region folk voice; Dakota Red Indians folk voice and folk instruments, 2 Russian folk voices and folk instruments, Tuva region folk voice and folk instruments, actor, 2 performance artists, shaman, assistant shaman, femal dancer, mixed chorus, violin, shell horn and dung-chen (Tibetan horn), zurna and duduk (Armenian folk instruments), 6 percussionists, French horn, Alpenhorn, trumpet, shofar, trombone, digeridoo, tuba, string orchestra
Snorri Sigfús Birgisson: No. 4 "Vókalísa (Vocalise)" from Lysting er sæt að söng (Four Songs from Old Icelandic Manuscripts)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: cello
Arthur Bliss: Vocalise (No. 3 from Four Songs)
Voice: unspecified
Accompaniment: violin
Arthur Bliss: Concerto (1923)
Voice: tenor
Accompaniment: piano, strings and percussion
Mark Bucci: Vocalise (from Concerto for a Singing Instrument) (1959)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: piano
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
George Crumb: Three Vocalises from Apparition (1979) (Summer Sounds, Invocation, and Death Carol - Song of the Nightbird) (1979)
Voice: mezzo or soprano
Accompaniment: amplified piano
George Crumb: The Ancient Voices of Children (1970)
Voices: mezzo, treble
Accompaniment: amplified piano
Morton Feldman: Vocalise from Neither (1977)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: chamber orchestra
Philip Glass and Robert Wilson: Jacob's Ladder from the CIVIL warS, Act V
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: orchestra
Ron Hannah: Vocalise, from Vocalise and Song (1990)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: percussion quintet
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
Leos Janacek: Third Movement of Dunaj (Danube)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: viola, (orchestra?)
Wojciech Kilar: Vocalise - Theme from The Ninth Gate (from soundtrack for the film)
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: orchestra
Dmytro (Dmitri) Klebanov: Symphony No. 1 in A minor "In memory of the victims of Babyn Yar", 3rd Movement (1945)
Voice: contralto
Accompaniment: orchestra
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
Accompaniment: orchestra
Polina Medyulyanova: Iltijo (No. 1 from Bukhara Notebook) (1996)
Voice: tenor
Accompaniment: 5 percussion instruments
Carl Nielsen: 2nd movement of Symphony No. 3, Op. 27 "Sinfonia Espansiva"
Voices: soprano, baritone
Accompaniment: orchestra
Kevin (William) Oldham: Vocalise Waltz, No. 2 from Two Waltzes, Op. 4 (1979)
Voices: 3 sopranos
Accompaniment: string quintet, piano
Arvo Pärt: Sara Was Ninety Years Old (originally entitled Modus) (1976/1990)
Voices: soprano, 2 tenors
Accompaniment: organ, percussion
José Sebrier: Symphony No. 3
Voice: soprano
Accompaniment: strings
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
Accompaniment: piano
Clark Suprynowicz: Vocalise from Chrysalis (2006)
Voices: soprano, mezzo soprano
Accompaniment: orchestra
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
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