Vocal Music in Collections and Music Guide - Evaluations and Reviews


lawrence.edu/fac/koopmajo/
Essay following the development of singing from antiquity, through to the development of opera, modernism and the present day.
  
ccel.org/w/wesley/hymn/jw.html
The 1889 edition of the Methodist hymn book containing the words to over 1000 hymns, arranged by title index, theme and original prefaces.
  
netstrider.com/music/morley/
MIDI recordings of part songs by Thomas Morley (1557-1602).
  
cpdl.snaptel.com/
A PDF listing of scores denoting the composer, title, contributor, voicing, and language of each piece is provided. An archive of free choral music available in MIDI format for download.
  
pbm.com/~lindahl/ballads/ballads.html
Project aiming to produce a collection of ballads from before 1600, both in their original form, containing sheet music and lyrics and in a form intelligible to a modern listener.
  
pbm.com/~lindahl/articles/singbib.html
Selective bibliography intended for singers interested in medieval and Renaissance music and its philosophy, theory and history.
  
choirs.org.uk/
Annotated list of choirs throughout the UK which have web sites.
  
recmusic.org/lieder/
Searchable by composer, poet, first line or titles. Extensive archive of texts to Kunstlieder and other art songs in over 12 languages including Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Russian.
  
channel1.com/users/gsilvis/
Includes choral works by Bach, Bortnyansky, Mendelssohn, Poulenc and Vaughan Williams. Collection of over 700 MIDI files intended to help singers learn music parts.
  
channel1.com/users/gsilvis/wsmadrig.htm
Includes works by Weelkes, Morley, Purcell and di Lasso. Collection of over 60 MIDI files intended to help singers learn madrigal parts.
  
sgpublishing.co.uk/gm/gm.html
Scholarly information on gallery music, the music sung by church and chapel bands in the 1700s and early 1800s, also known as west gallery music, Georgian psalmody and country psalmody. Contains articles, transcriptions and scanned images of material from
  
php.indiana.edu/~lneff/libretti/latin1.html
Latin liturgical texts including Gaudeamus, Os Justi, Stabat Mater , Magnificat, Requiem, Locus Iste and the Te Deum.
  
orphpl.com/choir.htm
Includes selected articles, online ordering and subscription information. Magazine about organ and choral music.
  
php.indiana.edu/~lneff/libretti.html
Large collection of the words to operas, song cycles and other choral music, oratorios and composer.
  
csupomona.edu/~jcclark/emusic/carol.html
Series of MIDI files presenting Tempus Adest Floridum, Veni, Greensleeves, Dulci Jubilo, Veni Emanuel, Coventry Carol and The Holly and the Ivy.
  
Number of reviews is 15 - Violins and Accessories