Music Guide: Vocal Sources

Index of anthologies in the UW Music Library collection

ML128.S3 G64 1984

Online database for exploring art song repertoire. From the University of Utah.

ML128.S3 S31

ML128.S3 D37

ML128.M78 B6 1996

Index to traditional folk songs of the world. Entries include the song title, first line of chorus, first line of verse, and full bibliographic information on the source.

ML128.F74 B83

Index of major anthologies in the UW Music Library collection

ML128.S3 H4

ML128.P63 G65 1995

ML128.S3 F47 1995

ML128.P63 G66 1990

The Paul Ashford Sheet Music Collection largely contains music from and about Washington State and the Pacific Northwest.

A subset of the Ashford Sheet Music Collection focusing specifically on Washington and Pacific Northwest Sheet Music.

The UW Libraries is developing a collection of Baltic choral music scores, sheet music, recordings, and related materials. This quick guide allows you to search the entire collection (some 900 items in 2012) by country (Estonia, Latvia, or Lithuania), composer's name, genre (choral, vocal, or instrumental) and medium (score, recording, book)

Scores and Arrangements digital collection offers unique insight into the development of music and scores in film. The collection includes over 3,000 items published or created for use in silent film accompaniment between 1904 - 1927. These items include scores written for specific films, cue sheets that compile melodies for use at certain moments in specific films.

This sheet music collection consists of approximately 9,000 items published from 1800 to 1922, although the majority is from 1850 to 1920 [view finding aid for the collection]. The bulk was published in many different cities in the United States, but some of the items bear European imprints. Most of the music is written for voice and piano; a significant minority is instrumental.

Provides basic information on each aria along with translations and texts for many arias.

ML136.L3 O5 v.1-2

The web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. Now with over 6066 texts including 1089 aria texts!

Archive of texts to Lieder and other Classical vocal works with some translations provided

ML54.6.P55 L5 1996

Digital copies of Mozart libretti produced by the Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg

Naxos contains a select number of librettos, some with English translations. Go to the Resources tab, Operas and librettos.

MT883.C632 1964

ML54.6.M5 R5 1973

Index of book translations held at the UW libraries

ML54.6.W65 v.1-2