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SONGS BY WOMEN COMPOSERS |
AUDIO SAMPLES
SONG COLLECTION TITLES
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Anne Boleyn (1507-1536)
(England)
O Death rock me asleepe (attributed)
(4:24)
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Caterina Assandra (c.1580-aft.1622)
(Italy)
Jubilate Deo (2:00) (1609)
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mp3 (:16)
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Francesca Caccini (1587-bef.1640)
(Italy)
Maria dolce Maria (2:25)
(1618)
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mp3 (:28)
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Barbara Strozzi (1620-1664
or later) (Italy)
Amor dormiglione (2:12)
(1657)
Chiamata a nuovi amori
(1:46) (Bissari)
Spesso per
entro al petto (2:43) (Cocognini)
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Amor mp3
(:16) |
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Anna Amalia, Duchess
of Saxe-Weimar
(1739-1807) (Germany)
Ihr solltet geniessen (2:03) (1776)
(Goethe)
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from the Singspiel "Erwin
und Elmire" |
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Maria Theresia von Paradis
(1759-1824) (Austria)
Das Gartner
liedchen aus dem Siegwart (2:22) (J. M. Miller)
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Josephine Lang (1815-1880)
(Germany)
Frühzeitiger Frühling
(1:47) (1830) (Goethe)
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mp3 (:35)
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Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
(1805-1847) (Germany) Frühling
(1:35) (Eichendorff) |
mp3
(:29) |
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Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1896)
(Germany)
Liebst du um Schönheit (1:58)
(Rückert) |
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Pauline Viardot-Garcia (1821-1910)
(Spain, France)
Der Gärtner (1:24)
(Mörike) |
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Agathe Backer-Grøndahl
(1847-1907) (Norway)
Mot kveld
(1:38) (Jynge) |
mp3 (:23)
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Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)
(France)
Si tout ceci n'est qu'un pauvre rêve
(1:43) (F. Jammes) |
from "Clairières dans le Ciel," revised
by Nadia Boulanger |
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Poldowski (Irene Wieniawska
Paul) (1880-1932) Belgium/England) Berceuse
d'Amorique (Lullabye of Brittany) (2:36)
(Le Braz) |
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Germaine Tailleferre
(1894-1983) (France)
Mon mari m'a
diffamée (1:31) |
mp3
(:21)
from "Six Chansons Française" |
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Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944)
(France)
Plaintes d'Amour (1:46)
(Adenis) |
mp3 (:25)
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Alma Mahler (1879-1964)
(Austria/USA)
Laue Sommernacht (1:52)
(Falke)
Bei dir ist es traut (1:34)
(Rilke)
Ich wandle unter Blumen (:57)
(Heine) |
"Fünf Lieder"
(These are songs #3-5) |
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Margaret Bonds (1913-1972)
(USA)
Minstrel Man (1:45) (Langston
Hughes) |
mp3 (:31)
from "Three Dream Portraits" |
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Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979)
(England/USA)
Infant Joy (1:13)
(Blake) |
mp3 (:22)
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Miriam Gideon (1906-1996)
(USA)
Rogez (1:17) (Yalen-Stekelis) |
mp3 (:24)
from "Ayelet Hashakhar" (Morning Star) |
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Jean Eichelberger Ivey (b.1923)
(USA)
I would live in your love (1:14)
(Teasdale) |
mp3 (:23)
from "Woman's Love" |
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Marion Bauer (1887-1955)
(USA)
I Love the Night (1:55)
(John Gould Fletcher) |
mp3 (:24)
(poem from "Violet Symphony, Goblins and Pagodas") |
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Judith Lang Zaimont (b.1945)
(USA)
Let it be forgotten (1:48)
(1975) (Teasdale) |
mp3
(:19) from "Greyed Sonnets" |
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Ann Silsbee (193-20030)
(USA)
Iris (1:18) (1983) (William
Carlos Williams) |
mp3
(:30) from "Four Songs" |
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Gwyneth Walker (b.1947)
(USA)
maggie and millie and mollie and may (1:09)
(1979) (E. E. Cummings) |
mp3 (:14)
from "though love be a day" |
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Libby Larsen (b.1950)
(USA)
When I am an old woman (2:36)
(1990) (Jenny Joseph) |
mp3 (:21)
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Elizabeth Vercoe (b.1941)
(USA)
Andromeda Rag (2:16) (1981)
(Mary Barnard)
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mp3 (:38)
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