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Book Title: My Favorite Songs (Volume one)
Collected by: Julia Culp (1880-1970)
Publisher: Oliver Ditson Company
Copyright: 1916

The entire volume is available for download at Google Books: My Favorite Songs

Contents:

• Zonnelied (C. van Rennes)
• Wiegeliedje (C. van Rennes)
• Adelaïde (L. van Beethoven)
• Der Schmied (J. Brahms)
• Feldeinsamkeit (J. Brahms)
• Minnelied (J. Brahms)
• Ständchen (J. Brahms)
• Wenn du nur zuweilen lächelst (J. Brahms)
• Wiegenlied (J. Brahms)
• Vor dem Fenster (J. Brahms)
• Untreu (P. Cornelius)
• Veilchen (P. Cornelius)
• Ein Ton (P. Cornelius)
• Mutter, o sing’ mich zur Ruh’ (R. Franz)
• Aus meinen grossen Schmerzen (R. Franz)
• Waldesgespräch (A. Jensen)
• Am Ufer des Flusses , des Manzanares (A. Jensen)
• Angiolin dal biondo crin (F. Liszt)
• Es muss ein Wunderbares sein (F. Liszt)
• Mädchen sind wie der Wind (C. Loewe)
• Der Asra (C. Loewe)
• Auf Flügeln des Gesanges (F. Mendelssohn)
• Der Mond (F. Mendelssohn)
• I’ve been roaming (C.E. Horn)
• Long, long ago (T.H. Bayly)
• Passing by (E. Purcell)
• So sweete is shee : Have you seene but a whyte lillie grow? (Seventeenth century air)
• I heard in the night the pigeons (W.A. Fisher, arr.)
• The passing of the Gael (W.A. Fisher, arr.)
• Farewell to Sliev Morna (W.A. Fisher, arr.)
• April (J.H. Densmore)
• The mother-heart (S.R. Gaines)
• Wood song (W. Watts)
• A sigh (A.W. Kramer.)

Notes:
Each of the songs from this volume will be uploaded as song posts are created for them. If you would like me to give priority to a song that is not yet posted, please let me know via the contact page.

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Book Title: Reliquary of English Song

• Volume One
• (1250-1700)

Editor: Frank Hunter Parker
Accompaniments by: Charles Vincent and T. Tertius Noble
Publisher: G. Schirmer
Copyright: 1915

This entire volume is now available for download here at Art Song Central: Reliquary of English Song (Volume 1)

Contents:

• About the sweet bag of a bee (Henry Lawes)
• Ah! the syghes that come fro’ my heart (temp. Henry VII)
• Arise, ye subterranean winds (Henry Purcell)
• Awake, sweet love (Dowland)
• Barbara Allen (temp. Charles I)
• Beauty and Love (Henry Lawes)
• The British Grenadiers (temp. Elizabeth)
• Cease, O my sad soul (Henry Purcell)
• Come again, sweet love (Dowland)
• Come, lovely Phillis (Henry Lawes)
• Dido’s Lament (Henry Purcell)
• Gather ye rosebuds while ye may (William Lawes)
• Have you seen but a white lily grow (temp. James I)
• Hence, hence with your trifling deity (Henry Purcell)
• How happy art thou (Henry Lawes)
• The Hunt is up (temp. Henry VIII)
• I attempt from love’s sickness to fly (Henry Purcell)
• I do confess (Henry Lawes)
• If the quick spirit of your eye (Henry Lawes)
• I live not where I love (temp. Elizabeth)
• I pass all my hours (Pelham Humphrey)
• I prethee, send me back my heart (Henry Lawes)
• It was a lover and his lass (Morley)
• The Knotting Song (Henry Purcell)
• Let us dance, let us sing (Henry Purcell)
• Lilliburlero (Henry Purcell)
• Little love serves my turn (Henry Lawes)
• Love will find out the way (temp. Elizabeth)
• Next, Winter comes slowly (Henry Purcell)
• Now is the month of maying (Morley)
• Now, O now I needs must part (Dowland)
• Nymphs and Shepherds (Henry Purcell)
• Once I loved a maiden fair (temp. James I)
• Pastime with good company (temp. Henry VIII)
• Phillida and Coridon (temp. Charles I)
• Phillis, on the new-made hay (temp. Charles I)
• Phillis, talk not more of passion (Daniel Purcell)
• Phillis, why should we delay (Henry Lawes)
• Sally in Our Alley (temp. Charles I
• The Self-Banished (Dr. Blow)
• Shepherd, shepherd, leave decoying (Henry Purcell)
• Sumer is icumen in (circa 1250)
• The Three Ravens (temp. Elizabeth)
• Tobacco’s but an Indian weed (temp. James I)
• Wert thou more fairer than thou art (Wilson)
• What if a day (temp. Elizabeth)
• When I have often heard (Henry Purcell)
• When the King enjoys his own again (temp. Charles I)
• Why should’st thou sweare I am forsworn (King Charles I)
• The Willow Song (temp. Elizabeth)
• Wronge not, deare Empress of my hearte (temp. Charles I)
• You Gentlemen of England (temp. Elizabeth)

Notes:
A number of these songs have been bowdlerized, meaning that “objectionable material” has been excised or replaced. The accompaniments, as well, are not always appropriate to the style. Furthermore, Dido’s Lament lacks the repeated ending we are now accustomed to.

Still, this volume has some useful material, especially for beginning students.

Each of the 52 songs from this volume will be uploaded as song posts are created for them. If you would like me to give priority to a song that is not yet posted, please let me know via the contact page.

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Collection Title: Pastourelles of the XV Century
Collected by: Yvette Guilbert
Harmonized by: Maurice Eisner
Publisher: Oliver Ditson Company
Copyright: 1919

A complete version is available for download via Google Books: Pastourelles of the XV Century

Contents:

• A qui dit-elle sa pensée?
• Aimez-moi, ma mignonne
• Les Amants honteux
• L’amour de moi
• Au delà de la rivière
• C’était la plus belle des trois
• Chapeau de sauge
• En baisant ma mie
• En venant de Lyon
• Et comment l’entendez-vous?
• Gaudinette
• Ile est venu le petit oisillor
• Ils sont bien pelées
• Laissez jouer jeunes gens
• Lourdant
• Ma chère Dame que je désire tant
• Réconfortez le petit coeur de moi
• Si je suis trouvée
• Sous une aubépine
• Vrai dieu d’amour, confortez-moi

Preface:

To My American Friends

In presenting to you the beautiful old songs of France, my aim is not so much to initiate you into thoughts of a different race, as to lead you to appreciate and enjoy their real source and origin, and to demonstrate to you the richness and variety of that admirable poetry of the old Gallic nation.

As one who, for the last twenty years, has been the apostle of the popular literature of a past unrivaled in its beauty, whether martial or religious, joyous or sentimental, I have
come to your country of America to sow the living germs of a culture, which, when better known and popularized through song, will stimulate and encourage the growth and blossoming of a culture that will be nationally American. The hour has come for France to forge the golden link of Art in the chain of sympathies which unites the two countries.

My own part is that of the ancient troubadour or minstrel, who wandered from one land to another, instilling into other nations the love and respecl for his own, by celebrating in song its manifold beauties.

France is but one joyous song! Her heart is but one ode! Her soul is but one hymn! Her laugh is but a flower! Her poetry a kiss! Her wealth is her courage, her strength is her loyalty!

It is in the songs of France that the entire national history is to be found; the history of her soil, her heroism, her brain, her heart — the apotheosis, in short, of a race that exhibits a reserve of serene and courteous strength; who can crown life with roses or bow to death with equal grace.

[signed] Yvette Guilbert

Notes:
While these settings of 15th century french medieval song are far from authentic presentations, they comprise a rare attempt to offer arrangements for the standard piano-voice combination. I’d be interested to hear people’s reactions to these!

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Collection Title: Oeuvres complètes du trouvère Adam de la Halle: poésies et musique
Composer: Adam de la Halle
Publisher: A. Durand & Pédone-Lauriel
Copyright: 1872

A complete version is available for download via Google Books: Oeuvres complètes du trouvère Adam de la Halle: poésies et musique

Contents:

• Over 100 pages of trouvère songs in both original and modern notation
• Jeux-partis
• Rondeaux
• Motets
• Le Congé
• Le Roi de Sicile
• Le Jeu Adam ou de la Feuillie
• Le Jeu de Robin et de Marion
• Le Jeu du Pélerin

Notes:
Medieval music such as this is experiencing a resurgence of interest, and is worthy material for young singers to learn to handle. This complete works of the composer Adam de la Halle includes many songs, as well as his dramatic works, including the popular “Jeu de Robin et de Marion”. Extensive introduction and notes are in French.

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Collection Title: Lieder für hohe Stimme mit Klavierbegleitung (Vol. 4)
Composer: Richard Strauss
Publisher: Universal Edition
Copyright: 1897

A complete version is available for download via Google Books: Strauss Lieder Vol. 4

Contents:

• Cäcilie
• Breit über mein Haupt
• Anbetung
• Glückes genug
• Die Zeitlose
• Die Verschwiegenen
• Schön sind, doch kalt
• Ach lieb, ich muss nun scheiden
• Die Frauen sind oft fromm und still
• Hat gesagt – Bleibt’s nicht dabei
• Mein Auge (missing pages)

Notes:
Decent edition of these Strauss Lieder. Publisher is the same that precipitated the shut down of IMSLP.

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Collection Title: The Artistic Soprano; A collection of standard ballads and arias by celebrated composers
Publisher: M. Witmark & Sons
Copyright: 1908

A complete version is available for download via Google Books: The Artistic Soprano and another is available via the Internet Archive: The Artistic Soprano.

Contents: (Title, followed by composer)

• Carmena H. Lane Wilson
• Je Suis Titania C. L. Ambroise Thomas
• Sérénade Charles Gounod
• Berceuse de Jocelyn (entitled “Lullaby” in this collection) Benjamin Godard
• Sérénade Gabriel Pierné
• Je veux vivre dans le rêve Charles Gounod
• Sans Toi Guy d’Hardelot
• Si mes vers avaient des ailes! Reynaldo Hahn
• Just You – And I Frank E. Tours
• Villanelle Eva Dell’Acqua
• Chanson provençale Eva Dell’Acqua
• Wenn die Rosen blühen Luise Reichardt
• Stars of the Summer Night Berthold Tours
• O Loving Heart, Trust On Louis Moreau Gottschalk
• Love Me To-day; To-morrow May Never Come Ernest R. Ball
• Snow-Flakes Frederic H. Cowen
• When Love is Kind “Old Melody arranged by A. L.”
• Er liebt nur mich allein Carl Eckert
• Sehnsucht Halfdan Kjerulf
• Oft in the Stilly Night Arr. by Sir John Andrew Stevenson

Notes:
The engraving on this edition is well done, though all of the songs are presented with English above and the original language (when not English) below and in italics. Aside from that, the quality of the edition is unclear at this time. The selection appears to be favorite showpieces of some of the great sopranos of the period, and contains an interesting mix of now familiar standards and pieces long fallen out of favor.

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Collection Title: The Window; Or, The Songs of the Wrens
Music: Arthur Sullivan
Text: Alfred Tennyson
Publisher: Strahan & Co.
Publication date: 1871

A complete version is available for download via Google Books: The Window

Preface:

Four years ago Mr. Sullivan requested me to write a little song-cycle, German fashion, for him to exercise his art upon. He had been very successful in setting such old songs as “Orpheus with his lute,” and I drest up for him, partly in the old style, a puppet whose almost only merit is, perhaps, that it can dance to Mr. Sullivan’s instrument. I am sorry that my four-year-old puppet should have to dance at all in the dark shadow of these days; but the music is now completed, and I am bound by my promise.

A. Tennyson.
December, 1870

Contents: (Title, followed by first line)

1. On The Hill “The lights and shadows fly”
2. At The Window “Vine, vine and eglantine”
3. Gone! “Gone! Gone till the end of the year”
4. Winter “The frost is here, and fuel is dear”
5. Spring “Birds’ love and birds’ song
6. The Letter “Where is another sweet as my sweet?”
7. No Answer “The mist and the rain, the mist and the rain”
8. No Answer “Winds are loud and you are dumb”
9. The Answer “Two little hands that meet”
10. Ay! “Be merry, all birds, to-day”
11. When? “Sun comes, moon comes, time slips away”
12. Marriage Morning “Light so low upon earth”

Notes:
This was an interesting find in Google Books. I had never heard of this set, and I don’t know it to be of any particular value, beyond the considerable notoriety of both poet and composer. Song posts will be created for the songs in this set if they prove worthy and if there is interest.

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Book Title: Forty Songs by Peter Ilyitch Tchaïkovsky
Editor: James Huneker
Publisher: Oliver Ditson Company
Copyright: 1912

Google Books has a downloadable copy of the High Voice edition.

Contents:

• An den Schlaf
• Déception
• Einst zum Narren Jemand spricht
• Einzig Wörtchen, Ein
• Er liebte mich so sehr!
• Es war zur ersten Frühlingszeit
• Fahrt hin, ihr Träume!
• Hat die Mutter zu so schwerem Leide
• Inmitten des Balles
• Der Kanarienvogel
• Kein Wort von dir
• Der Kuckuk
• Les Larmes
• Lebewohl
• Legende
• Lied der Zigeunerin
• Mignon’s Lied
• Nein, wen ich liebe
• Nicht sogleich hat mich Liebe erfüllet
• Nicht Worte, Geliebter
• Nur du allein
• Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt
• O geh’ nicht von mir, mein Freund
• O, mein Kind, durch die schweigende Nacht
• O möchtest du einmal noch singen
• Ob heller Tag
• Pimpinella
• Sérénade
• Si vous saviez
• Ständchen des Don Juan
• Sternennacht
• Die Thräne bebt
• Der Tod
• War ich nicht eim Halm auf frischem Wiesengrund
• Warte noch!
• Warum? (Op. 6, No. 5)
• Warum? (Op. 28, No. 3)
• Was nun?
• Weil’ ich, wie einstmals, allein
• Wiegenlied

Notes:
Each of the 40 songs in this volume will be uploaded as song posts are created for them. If you would like me to give priority to a song that is not yet posted, please let me know via the contact page.

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Book Title: Sechs Lieder für eine Stimme, Op. 85
Composer: Johannes Brahms
Publisher: N. Simrock in Berlin
Copyright: 1882

Google Books has a downloadable copy of Sechs Lieder für eine Stimme.

Contents:

1. Sommerabend
2. Mondenschein
3. Mädchenlied
4. Ade!
5. Frühlingslied
6. In Waldeseinsamkeit

Notes:
Each of the songs in this volume will be uploaded as song posts are created for them. If you would like me to give priority to a song that is not yet posted, please let me know via the contact page.

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Book Title: One Hundred Songs by Ten Masters (in two volumes)
Editor: Henry T. Finck
Publisher: Oliver Ditson Company
Copyright: 1917

Google Books has the High Voice editions of Volume 1 and Volume 2 available for download as PDF files. The Internet Archive also has Volume 2.

Contents: (Volume 1)

• Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
• Der Erlkönig
• Der Wanderer
• Der Tod und das Mädchen
• Du bist die Ruh’
• Hymne an die Jungfrau (Ave Maria)
• Horch, horch, die Lerch’
• Was ist Sylvia?
• Aufenthalt
• Ihr Bild
• Der Doppelgänger

• Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
• Mit Myrthen und Rosen
• Widmung
• Der Nussbaum
• Die Lotosblume
• Waldesgespräch
• Mondnacht
• Frühlingsnacht
• Er, der Herrlichste von Allen
• Ich grolle nicht
• Die beiden Grenadiere

• Franz, Robert (1815-1892)
• Er ist gekommen
• Aus meinen grossen Schmerzen
• Mädchen mit dem rothen Mündchen
• Das ist ein Brausen und Heulen
• Bitte
• Widmung
• Willkommen, mein Wald
• Die Lotosblume
• Wandl’ ich in dem Wald des Abends
• Es hat die Rose sich beklagt

• Rubinstein, Anton (1830-1894)
• Der Traum
• Sehnsucht
• Es war ein alter König
• Du bist wie eine Blume
• Der Asra
• Gelb rollt mir zu Füssen
• Thu’ nicht so spröde, schönes Kind
• Vernahmet ihr
• Es blinkt der Thau
• Gut’ Nacht

• Jensen, Adolf (1837-1879)
• Lehn’ deine Wang’ an meine Wang’
• Wie Lenzeshauch
• Und schläfst du, mein Mädchen
• Murmelndes Lüftchen
• Am Ufer des Flusses, des Manzanares
• O lass dich halten, gold’ne Stunde
• Mein Herz ist im Hochland
• Wenn durch die Piazzetta
• Leis’ rudern hier, mein Gondolier!
• Wiegenlied

Contents: (Volume 2)

• Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
• Wie bist du meine Königin
• Ruhe, Süssliebchen
• Wiegenlied
• Meine Liebe ist grün
• Minnelied
• Vergebliches Ständchen
• Feldeinsamkeit
• Sapphische Ode
• Wie Melodien zieht es mir
• Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer

• Tchaïkovsky, Peter Ilyitch (1840-1893)
• Warum?
• Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt
• Wiegenlied
• Der Kanarienvogel
• Einst zum Narren Jemand spricht
• An den Schlaf
• Ständchen des Don Juan
• Ob heller Tag
• Sérénade
• Déception

• Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
• Ich liebe Dich
• Wiegenlied
• Solvejg’s Lied
• Ein Schwan
• Mit einer Primula Veris
• Der Frühling
• Auf der Reise zur Heimath
• Lauf der Welt
• Ein Traum
• Eros

• Wolf, Hugo (1860-1903)
• Zur Ruh, zur Ruh!
• Biterolf
• Verborgenheit
• Fussreise
• Er ist’s
• In der Frühe
• Gesang Weyla’s
• Auf dem grünen Balcon
• Müh’ voll komm’ ich und beladen
• Auch kleine Dinge

• Strauss, Richard
• Zueignung
• Die Nacht
• Allerseelen
• Seitdem dein Aug’ in meines schaute
• Ständchen
• Breit über mein Haupt dein schwarzes Haar
• Wie sollten wir geheim sie halten
• All’ mein Gedanken, mein Herz und mein Sinn
• Du meines Herzens Krönelein
• Ach Lieb, ich muss nun scheiden

Notes:
Each of the songs from this volume will be uploaded as song posts are created for them, though some are already represented here in other editions. (Note that all are available via the complete editions mentioned above the content listings.) If you would like me to give priority to a song that is not yet posted, please let me know via the contact page.

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Book Title: Tesori antichi; Sammlung altitalienischer Arien und Lieder
Editor: Martin Roeder
Publisher: Breitkopf & Härtel
Copyright: 1893

Google Books has a complete copy of Tesori antichi available for download as a PDF.

Contents:

• O cessate di piagarmi Alessandro Scarlatti
• Nel cor non più mi sento Giovanni Paisiello
• Venni Amore Guglielmo Fesch
• Lungi dal caro bene Giuseppe Sarti
• Rendi il sereno al ciglio G. F. Händel
• Morir vogl’io Emanuele d’Astorga
• Andiam! chi vi rattien Ch. W. v. Gluck
• Tu fai la superbetta Guglielmo Fesch
• Vieni che poi sereno Ch. W. v. Gluck
• Come raggio di sol Antonio Caldara
• Lasso, ch’io t’ho perduta Attilio Ariosti
• M’ha presa alla sua ragna Pietro Dom. Paradies

Notes:
Each of the songs from this volume will be uploaded as song posts are created for them, though some are already well represented here in other editions. If you would like me to give priority to a song that is not yet posted, please let me know via the contact page.

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Book Title: Opera Songs
Subtitle: The Choicest Selection from all the Standard Operas New and Old
Volumes: 4 (Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano/Alto, Tenor, Bass)
Publisher: The John Church Company
Copyright: 1901

Volume 1 (Soprano) Contents:
(Google Books has a complete copy of Volume 1 for Soprano available for download)

• Ah! non credea mirarti (Sonnambula) Bellini
• Ah! non giunge (Sonnambula) Bellini
• Je dis que rien ne m’épouvante (Carmen) Bizet
• L’altra notte in fondo al mare (Mefistofele) Boito
• Charmant Oiseau (La Perle du Brésil) David
• Où va la Jeune Indoue (Lakmé) Delibes
• Mad Scene (Lucia di Lammermoor) Donizetti
• Je veux vivre dans ce reve (Romeo and Juliet) Gounod
• Jewel Song (Faust) Gounod
• Plus grand, dans son obscurité (Queen of Sheba) Gounod
• Domani, o me felice (Osteria) Lillo
• Romanza (Cavalleria Rusticana) Mascagni
• Scene and Gavotte (Manon) Massenet
• Pleurez, pleurez, mes yeux! (Le Cid) Massenet
• Air of Solome (Hérodiade) Massenet
• Roberto, o tu che adoro (Roberto il Diavolo) Meyerbeer
• Ombra leggiera (Dinorah) Meyerbeer
• Stella del Marinar (Gioconda) Ponchielli
• Se come voi piccina io fossi (Le Villi) Puccini
• Bel raggio lusinghier (Semiramide) Rossini
• Connais-tu le pays (Mignon) Thomas
• Recit. and Polonaise (Mignon) Thomas
• Caro nome (Rigoletto) Verdi
• Ah! fors’e lui (La Traviata) Verdi
• Ernani, Ernani involami (Ernani) Verdi
• Ave Maria (Otello) Verdi
• Recit. and Romance (Aïda) Verdi
• Elsa’s Traum (Lohengrin) Wagner
• Gebet der Elizabeth (Tannhäuser) Wagner
• Ballad (Der fliegende Holländer) Wagner
• Piano, piano, canto pio (Der Freischütz) Weber
• Ocean, thou Mighty Monster (Oberon) Weber

Volume 2 (Mezzo-Soprano/Alto) Contents:
(Google Books has a complete copy of Volume 2 for Alto available for download)

• Seguidilla (Carmen) Bizet
• Habanera (Carmen) Bizet
• Tant que le jour dure! (Jean de Neville) Delibes
• O Mio Ferrando (La Favorita) Donizetti
• Il segreto per esser felici (Lucrezia Borgia) Donizetti
• Oui, c’est lui (Aben Hamet) Dubois
• Esser Mesto (Martha) Flotow
• Depuis hier je cherche en vain (Romeo et Juliet) Gounod
• Si le bonheur (Faust) Gounod
• Faites-lui mes aveux (Faust) Gounod
• O ma lyre immortelle (Sappho) Gounod
• Nuit resplendissante (Cinq Mars) Gounod
• Che farò senza Euridice (Orfeo) Gluck
• Divinités du Styx (Alceste) Gluck
• Lascia ch’io pianga (Rinaldo) Handel
• Sa couleur est blonde (Galathée) Massé
• Dans le bois a ma voix (Paul et Virginia) Massé
• Scena e Canzone (L’Amico Fritz) Mascagni
• Lieta Signor (Gli Ugonotti) Meyerbeer
• No, caso egual giammai (Gli Ugonotti) Meyerbeer
• Ah figliuol, Mio figliuol (Il Profeta) Meyerbeer
• Scene, Arietta and Canzonetta (Dinorah) Meyerbeer
• Gia l’ira m’abbandona (Il Profeta) Meyerbeer
• Voi che sapete (Le Nozze di Figaro) Mozart
• Voce di donna o d’angelo (Gioconda) Ponchielli
• Ah, quel giorno (Semiramide) Rossini
• Una voce poco fa (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) Rossini
• Ah, rendimi (Mitrane) Rossi
• Printemps qui commence (Samson et Delila) Saint-Saëns
• Sotto il bel ciel della Spagne (Gil Blas) Semet
• My heart is weary (Nadeschda) A.G. Thomas
• Rondo and Gavotte (Mignon) Thomas
• Stride la vampa (Trovatore) Verdi
• Gerechter Gott (Rienzi) Wagner
• Donzella nata in sen (Oberon) Weber

Volume 3 (Tenor) Contents:
I’ve scanned the tenor volume, and it can be downloaded in its entirety here.

• Della vita in sull’ aurora (Beethoven)
• La fleur que tu m’avais jetée (Bizet)
• Dai campi (Boito)
• Bella del suo sorriso (Braga)
• Prendre le dessin d’un bijou (Delibes)
• Spirto gentil (Donizetti)
• Una furtiva lagrima (Donizetti)
• M’appari tutt’ amor (Flotow)
• Oh, ne t’éveille pas encor (Godard)
• Salut! demeure chaste et pure (Gounod)
• L’Amour! oui, son ardeur a troublé (Gounod)
• Barcarolle from Polyeucte (Gounod)
• Inspirez Moi (Gounod)
• Siciliana from Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni)
• Ed anche Beppe amò (Mascagni)
• Promesse de mon avenir (Massenet)
• Je suis seul (Massenet)
• O Paradis sorti de l’onde (Meyerbeer)
• Il mio tesoro intanto (Mozart)
• Cielo e mar (Ponchielli)
• Torna ai felici di (Puccini)
• Elle ne croyait pas (Thomas)
• O vision entrancing (Thomas, A. Goring)
• O dolore! ed io vivea (Verdi)
• La donna è mobile (Verdi)
• De’ miei bollenti spiriti (Verdi)
• Ah si, ben mio; coll’ essere io tuo (Verdi)
• La mia letizio infondere (Verdi)
• Celeste Aida (Verdi)
• Tu? Indietro! (Verdi)
• Oh, tu che in seno agl’angioli (Verdi)
• Allmächt’ger Vater (Wagner)
• Walther’s Preislied (Wagner)
• Cavatina from Der Fliegende Holländer (Wagner)
• In fernem Land (Wagner)

Volume 4 (Bass) Contents:
(Internet Archive has a complete copy of Volume 4 for Bass available for download)

• Quand la flamme de l’amour (Bizet)
• Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre (Bizet)
• Son lo Spirito che nega (Boito)
• Senza tetto, senza cuna (Gomez)
• Sous les pieds d’une femme (Gounod)
• Au bruit des lourds marteaux (Gounod)
• Avant de quitter ces lieux (Gounod)
• Vous que faites l’endormie (Gounod)
• Le veau d’or (Gounod)
• Mab, la reine des Mensonges (Gounod)
• Vision fugitive (Massenet)
• A quoi bon l’economie (Massenet)
• Canzone del Rabbino (Mascagni)
• Adamastor, roi des vagues profondes (Meyerbeer)
• Sei vendicata assai (Meyerbeer)
• Madamina, il catologo e questo (Mozart)
• Qui sdegno non s’accende (Mozart)
• Es hat nicht sollen sein (Nessler)
• No! possibil non è (Puccini)
• Pescator, affonda l’esca (Ponchielli)
• Largo al factotum (Rossini)
• Je t’implore o mon frere (Thomas)
• What would I do for my Queen (Thomas)
• Eri tu che macchiavi (Verdi)
• Di Provenza il mar (Verdi)
• Il balen del suo sorriso (Verdi)
• Infelice! e tu credevi (Verdi)
• Tu sul labbro de’ veggenti (Verdi)
• Vanne; la tua meta già vedo (Verdi)
• Ella giammai m’amo (Verdi)
• O du mein holder Abendstern (Wagner)
• Pogner’s Anrede (Wagner)
• Durch dich musst’ ich verlieren (Wagner)

Notes:
Despite the rather awkward title, this appears to be a relatively decent edition of arias, with some current standards as well as a number of selections that would not be likely to be found in modern collections. A few arias are not set in the original language. “In diesen heilgen Hallen,” for example, is inexplicably presented in Italian and English only.

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Book Title: Fifty Songs by Robert Franz
Editor: William Foster Apthorp
Publisher: Oliver Ditson Co.
Copyright: 1903

Google Books has a downloadable copy of both the Low Voice and High Voice edition.

Contents:

• Die Lotosblume (Op. 1 No. 3)
• Schlummerlied
• Auf geheimem Waldespfade
• Drüben geht die Sonne sheiden
• Trübe wird’s, die Wolken jagen
• Sonnenuntergang; schwarze Wolken zieh’n
• Auf dem Teich, dem regungslosen
• Der Schalk
• Die Farben Helgolands
• Frühling und Liebe
• Er ist gekommen
• Aus meinen grossen Schmerzen
• Auf dem Meere
• Mädchen mit dem rothen Mündchen
• Gute Nacht
• Vergessen
• Wie des Mondes Abbild
• Frühlingsgedränge
• Der Bote
• Meeresstille
• Durch den Wald im MondenScheine
• Das ist ein Brausen und Heulen
• Gewitternacht
• Bitte
• Für Musik
• Stille Sicherheit
• Und die Rosen, die prangen
• Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen
• Ein Friedhof
• Widmung
• Waldfahrt
• Der Fichtenbaum
• Ständchen
• Im Herbst
• Marie
• Im Rhein, im heiligen Strome
• Die blauen Frühlingsaugen
• Die Lotosblume (Op. 25 No. 1)
• O lüge nicht!
• Im wunderschönen Monat Mai
• Sterne mit den gold’nen Füsschen
• Romanze
• Frühlingsfeier
• Es ragt in’s Meer der Runenstein
• Das Meer erstrahlt im Sonnenschein
• Wandl’ ich in dem Wald des Abends
• Die helle Sonne leuchtet
• Weisst du noch?
• Es hat die Rose sich beklagt
• Doppelwandlung

Notes:
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Book Title: 24 Arie di stile antico con accompagnamento di pianoforte
Composer: Stefano Donaudy (1879-1925)
Publisher: G. Ricordi & Co.
Copyright: 1918

The University of Rochester has 24 Arie di stile antico available for download. (Their copy is missing pages 19 and 20 from volume 1.)

Contents:

• Se tra l’erba – PDF
• Perchè dolce, caro bene – PDF
• Quelle labbra non son rose – PDF
• Se vuoi ch’io mora, amor, morrò – PDF
• Amor s’apprende – PDF
• Perduta ho la speranza – PDF
• Ah, mai non cessate
• Date abbiento al mio dolore
• Sento nel core – PDF
• Spirate pur, spirate – PDF
• Come l’allodoletta – PDF
• E Filli m’ha detto – PDF
• Freschi luoghi, prati aulenti – PDF
• Vaghissima sembianza – PDF
• Ognun ripicchia e nicchia – PDF
• Vorrei poterti odiare – PDF
• Sorge il sol! Che fai tu? – PDF
• O del mio amato ben – PDF
• Quand’il tuo diavol nacque – PDF
• No, non mi guardate – PDF
• Or che le rèdole – PDF
• Quando ti rivedrò
• Amor mi fa cantare – PDF
• Madonna Renzuola – PDF

Notes:
I have also scanned most of these pieces from another Ricordi publication, and will make it a point to cover the two missing pages from the UR edition, which affects the songs Ah, mai non cessate and Date abbiento al mio dolore.

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Book Title: Schwanengesang
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Publisher: Tobias Haslinger
Copyright: 1829

This two volume set is available in its entirety at the University of Rochester as PDF files. There is one pdf file for each volume. The contents of each are listed below.

Volume 1 Contents:

• Liebesbothschaft
• Kriegers Ahnung
• Frülingssehnsucht
• Ständchen
• Aufenthalt
• In der Ferne

Volume 2 Contents:

• Abschied
• Der Atlas
• Ihr Bild
• Das Fischermädchen
• Die Stadt
• Am Meer
• Der Doppelgänger
• Die Taubenpost

Notes:
This is not an ideal edition to sing from, though the music is perfectly legible. Neat, though, to see the original edition. I have access to the complete Schubert, and can post a better edition of any of these songs with enough warning.

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Book Title: English Lyrics
Composer: Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918)
Publisher: Novello & Co.
Copyright: 1896

Nine volumes of this set are available at the University of Rochester as PDF files. There is one pdf file for each volume. The contents of each are listed below.

Set three is also available via Google Books.

Most of these songs have been transcribed by John Henry Fowler and placed in the Choral Public Domain Library. They can be found via the CPDL page for C.H.H. Parry. The CPDL Parry page also lists three additional sets, one song of which has already been transcribed as of this writing.

First Set Contents:

• My true love hath my heart @CPDL
• Good night
• Where shall the lover rest
• Willow, willow, willow @CPDL

Second Set Contents:

• O mistress mine @CPDL
• Take, O take those lips away @CPDL
• No longer mourn for me @CPDL
• Blow, blow, thou winter wind @CPDL
• When icicles hang by the wall @CPDL

Third Set Contents:

• To Lucasta on going to the wars @CPDL
• If thou would’st ease thine heart @CPDL
• To Althea from prison @CPDL
• Why so pale and wan @CPDL
• Through the ivory gate @CPDL
• Of all the torments @CPDL

Fourth Set Contents:

• Thine eyes still shined for me @CPDL
• When lovers meet again @CPDL
• When we two parted @CPDL
• Weep you no more @CPDL
• There be none of beauty’s daughters
• Bright star

Fifth Set Contents:

• A Stray nymph of Dian
• Proud Maisie @CPDL
• Crabbed age and youth @CPDL
• Lay a garland on my hearse @CPDL
• Love and laughter
• A girl to her glass
• A Welsh Lullaby @CPDL

Sixth Set Contents:

• When comes my Gwen @CPDL
• And yet I love her till I die @CPDL
• Love is a bable @CPDL
• A lover’s garland
• At the hour the long day ends
• Under the greenwood tree @CPDL

Seventh Set Contents:

• On a time the amorous Silvy @CPDL
• Follow a shadow
• Ye little birds that sit and sing @CPDL
• O never say that I was false of heart
• Julia @CPDL
• Sleep

Eighth Set Contents:

• Whence @CPDL
• Nightfall in winter @CPDL
• Marian @CPDL
• Dirge in woods @CPDL
• Looking backward @CPDL
• Grapes @CPDL

Ninth Set Contents:

• Three Aspects @CPDL
• A Fairy town (St. Andrew’s) @CPDL
• The Witches’ Wood @CPDL
• Whether I live @CPDL
• Armida’s Garden @CPDL
• The Maiden @CPDL
• There @CPDL

Notes:
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Book Title: The Just So Songbook
Composer: Edward German
Publisher: Doubleday, Page and Company
Copyright: 1903

This collection is available in its entirety from the Internet Archive: The Just So Songbook

Contents:

1. When the Cabin Port-holes
2. The Camel’s Hump
3. This Uninhabited Island
4. I Keep Six Honest Serving-men
5. I Am the Most Wise Baviaan
6. Kangaroo and Dingo
7. Merrow Down
8. Of all the Tribe of Tegumai
9. The Riddle
10. The First Friend
11. There was never a Queen like Balkis
12. Rolling down to Rio

Notes:
Rolling down to Rio was a popular recital piece in the mid 20th century, but the rest of this charming song collection was largely ignored.

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Book Title: Songs and Airs by George Frideric Handel (Volume II for Low Voice)
Editor: Ebenezer Prout
Publisher: Oliver Ditson Company
Copyright: 1905

A complete copy of this work can be found at Google Books: Songs and Airs by George Frideric Handel, Volume II

Contents: Opera or oratorio in italics.

• Amadigi Tu mia speranza
• Acis and Galatea Recit: I rage, I melt, I burn! Aria: O ruddier than the cherry
• Esther Turn not, O Queen, thy face away
• Radamisto Ombra cara
• Floridante Non lasciar
• Giulio Cesare Dal fulgar di questa spada
• Rodelinda Dove sei, amato bene?
• Rodelinda Con rauco mormorio
• Lotario Già mie sembra
• Poro È prezzo leggiero
• Ezio Se un bell’ ardire
• Orlando Sorge infausta una procella
• Deborah In the battle fame pursuing
• Deborah Tears such as tender fathers shed
• Ariodante Al sen ti stringo e parto
• Alcina Verdi prati, selve amene
• Alexander’s Feast Revenge, Timotheus cries
• Berenice Si, tra i ceppi
• Saul O Lord, whose mercies numberless
• Israel in Egypt Thou shalt bring them in
• Deidamia Nel riposo e nel contento
• Messiah He shall feed His flock
• Messiah He was despised
• Samson Thy glorious deeds inspired my tongue
• Samson Honor and arms
• Samson How willing my paternal love
• Semele Hymen, haste! thy torch prepare!
• Semele Leave me, loathsome light!
• Belshazzar Great God! Who yet but darkly known
• Belshazzar O sacred oracles of truth
• Belshazzar Recit: Rejoice, my countrymen! Arioso: Thus saith the Lord to Cyrus His anointed
• Judas Maccabeus Arm, arm, ye brave!
• Judas Maccabeus Father of Heaven
• Joshua See, the raging flames arise
• Joshua Heroes, when with glory burning
• Joshua Shall I in Mamre’s fertile plain
• Theodora As with rosy steps the morn
• Theodora Lord, to Thee each night and day
• The Triumph of Time and Truth Loathsome urns, disclose your treasure
• The Triumph of Time and Truth False, destructive ways of pleasure

Notes:
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Book Title: Sixty Folksongs of France
Editor: Julien Tiersot
Publisher: Oliver Ditson Company
Copyright: 1915

A complete copy of this work can be found at Google Books: Sixty Folksongs of France.

Contents:

• Pernette
• Germaine
• La parabole du mauvais riche
• La belle au rosier blanc
• Petit soldat de guerre
• Le miracle de Saint-Nicolas
• La chanson de Renaud
• Le retour du soldat
• La mort de la fiancée
• La mort du porte-enseigne
• Les marins de Groix
• La marchande d’oranges
• Joli tambour
• Les trois princesses
• Les troix filles, ou L’occasion manquée
• La fille et le chausser, ou L’occasion manquée
• Les trois capitaines
• La chanson de Malbrough
• Il était un’ bergère
• Gardons nos moutons
• En passant par un échalier
• Auprès de ma blonde
• Mon père m’envoie-t-à l’herbe
• Au bois rossignolet
• La fille de Parthenay
• Les noces du coucou et de l’alouette
• Nous n’irons plus au bois
• A ma main droite j’ai un rosier
• La fille du coupeur de paille
• La ronde de l’aveine
• La Marion et le bossu
• Réveillez-vous, belle endormie
• Ce matin me suis levé
• En revenant de noces
• Le départ du soldat
• Les métamorphoses
• Magali
• Roussignoulet qui cantos
• Le rossignol messager
• Sérénade Basque
• Aqueros mountagnos
• Le Canigou
• Ann hini gouz
• Sire Halewyn
• Briolage
• La chanson du bouvier
• La vie de la bergère
• La chanson de la mariée
• La chanson du Reuze
• Le mois de Mai
• Voici le mois de Mai
• Voici venir le mois de Mai
• Joli mois de Mai
• Voici la Saint-Jean
• Chant de quête de l’Alsace
• Quittez, pasteurs, vos brebis, vos houlettes
• Noël nouvelet
• Les deux bergères
• La marche des Rois

Notes:
This is a “medium voice” edition.

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Book Title: Fifty Mastersongs by Twenty Composers
Editor: Henry T. Finck
Publisher: Oliver Ditson Co.
Copyright: 1903

Google Books has a downloadable copy of the Low Voice edition. The Internet Archive has the Low Voice edition and the High Voice edition as well.

Contents:

• Das Veilchen Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Adelaide. Op. 46 Ludwig van Beethoven
• Der Erlkönig Franz Schubert
• Der Wanderer Franz Schubert
• Der Tod und das Mädchen Franz Schubert
• Du bist die Ruh Franz Schubert
• Horch, horch, die Lerch (Ständchen) Franz Schubert
• Das Wirtshaus Franz Schubert
• Aufenthalt Franz Schubert
• Der Doppelgänger Franz Schubert
• Meine Freuden Frédéric Chopin
• Zwei Leichen Frédéric Chopin
• Widmung Robert Schumann
• Die Lotosblume Robert Schumann
• Waldesgespräch Robert Schumann
• Ich grolle nicht Robert Schumann
• Die Loreley Franz Liszt
• Der König von Thule Franz Liszt
• Wanderers Nachtlied Franz Liszt
• Träume Richard Wagner
• Bitte Robert Franz
• Für Musik Robert Franz
• Widmung Robert Franz
• Wilkommen, mein Wald! Robert Franz
• Wonne der Wehmuth Robert Franz
• Es hat die Rose sich beklagt Robert Franz
• Ein Ton Peter Cornelius
• Der Asra Anton Rubinstein
• Gelb rollt mir zu Füssen Anton Rubinstein
• Wie bist du meine Königin Johannes Brahms
• Minnelied Johannes Brahms
• Wie Melodien zieht se mir Johannes Brahms
• Lehn’ deine Wang’ an meine Wang’ Adolf Jensen
• Wenn durch die Piazzetta Adolf Jensen
• Leis’ rudern hier, mein Gondolier! Adolf Jensen
• Warum? Pior Ilyitch Tchaïkovsky
• Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt Pior Ilyitch Tchaïkovsky
• Déception Pior Ilyitch Tchaïkovsky
• Als die alte Mutter Antonín Dvořák€
• Elégie Jules Massenet
• Vom Monte Pincio Edvard Grieg
• Mit einer Primula veris Edvard Grieg
• Ein Schwan Edvard Grieg
• An einem Bache Edvard Grieg
• Die alte Mutter Edvard Grieg
• Das Kind der Berge Edvard Grieg
• Chanson de Florian Benjamin Godard
• Ach! de Qualen Ignace Jan Paderewski
• The Sea. Op. 47, No. 7 Edward A. MacDowell
• Ständchen Richard Strauss

Notes:
Each of the 50 songs in this volume will be uploaded as song posts are created for them. If you would like me to give priority to a song that is not yet posted, please let me know via the contact page.