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Resources for Singers: Bass-Baritone

Bass-Baritone Song Literature

This list contains common song collections that you can borrow from the library or find easily enough for purchase. Some collections come with a sound recording that contains the piano accompaniments and/or IPA coaching.

28 American art songs : for low voice and piano.

[New York] : G. Schirmer, Inc., [2015]
FOLIO M1619 .T85 2015

Theatrical songs : 51 songs for medium/low voice and piano / William Bolcom.

New York : Edward B Marks Music, c2012
FOLIO M1620.B68 T532 2012

Minicabs : minicabaret songs for medium/low voice / William Bolcom.

New York : Edward B. Marks Music, c2010
FOLIO M1621.B64 M56 2010

Standard vocal literature for bass / edited by Richard Walters.

Milwaukee, WI : H. Leonard, 2004.
Audio Record 40360 CD
​FOLIO M1619 .S826 2004

The Lieder anthology complete package : low voice / edited by Virginia Saya and Richard Walters

translations and International Phonetic Alphabet by Martha Gerhart ; diction lesson recordings by Irene Spiegelman ; accompaniment recordings by Laura Ward.
Milwaukee, WI : Hal Leonard, [2013]
Audio record 36808 CD
M1619 .L4352 2013

65 songs / Samuel Barber ; edited by Richard Walters.

New York, NY : G. Schirmer ; Milwaukee, Wis. : Distributed by Hal Leonard, c2010.
FOLIO M1620.B27 S332 2010

The singer's musical theatre anthology : a collection of songs from musicals, teens edition / compiled and edited by Richard Walters.

Milwaukee, WI : Hal Leonard, [2010]
FOLIO M1507.S6363 T44 2010a

Anthology of Spanish song / edited by Maria DiPalma and Richard Walters.

Milwaukee, WI : H. Leonard Corp., [2001]
FOLIO M1619 .A727 2001

15 selected songs / Johannes Brahms.

Milwaukee, WI : H. Leonard Corp., c2008
Audio record 23537 CD
FOLIO M1620.B8 W352 2008

Collected songs : 54 songs including 8 Cycles or sets, / Gerald Finzi.

[England?] : Boosey & Hawkes ; Milwaukee, Wis. : Distributed by Hal Leonard Corp., [2008?]
FOLIO M1620.F569 S663 2008

The Purcell collection : 50 songs : realizations by Benjamin Britten / music by Henry Purcell

the figured basses realized by Benjamin Britten ; the vocal parts edited by Peter Pears ; edited by Richard Walters. -- [United States?] : Boosey & Hawkes ; Milwaukee, Wis. : Distributed by Hal Leonard Corp., c2008.
FOLIO M1620.P98 B779 2008

50 collected songs / Ned Rorem ; compiled by Richard Walters

consultant, Kurt Ollmann. [United States] : Boosey & Hawkes ; Milwaukee, Wis. : Distributed by Hal Leonard Corp., [2008?]
FOLIO M1620.R68 W352 2008

The G. Schirmer collection of American art song : 50 songs by 29 composers / compiled and edited by Richard Walters.

New York : G. Schirmer ; Milwaukee, Wis. : Distributed by Hal Leonard, c2007.
FOLIO M1619 .G23 20070

Art songs and arias : 29 selections / Leonard Bernstein ; edited by Richard Walters

[United States] : L. Bernstein Music ; [S.l.] : Boosey & Hawkes ; [Milwaukee, Wis.] : [Distributed by] Hal Leonard, c2007.
FOLIO M1620.B49 V64 2007

Art songs and arias / Aaron Copland.

[United States] : Boosey & Hawkes ; Milwaukee, Wis. : Distributed by Hal Leonard, c2007.
FOLIO M1620.C64 V64 2007

Complete folksong arrangements : 61 songs / Benjamin Britten ; edited by Richard Walters.

London] : Boosey & Hawkes ; Milwaukee, Wis. : distributed by Hal Leonard, c2006.
FOLIO M1620.B858 F66 2006

The Lieder anthology / edited by Virginia Saya and Richard Walters.

Milwaukee, WI : Hal Leonard, c2003.
Audio record 36808 CD
M1619 .L4352 2003

The songs of Richard Rodgers : low voice / edited by Richard Walters ; Bryan Stanley, assistant editor.

[New York] : Williamson Music ; Milwaukee, WI : exclusively distributed by Hal Leonard, [2002?]
FOLIO M1507.R7 M872 2002

The French song anthology / edited by Carol Kimball & Richard Walters ; Joel K. Boyd, assistant editor.

Milwaukee, WI : Hal Leonard Corp., [2001]
M1619 .F74972 2001

Songs by 22 Americans : a collection of songs by outstanding American composers / compiled by Bernard Taylor.

[New York] : G. Schirmer ; Milwaukee, WI : distributed by Hal Leonard, c1960.
FOLIO M1619.T25 S62 1960
 

This is a short list of recently acquired song cycles featuring bass-baritone.

Farewell, Auschwitz : songs for soprano, mezzo-soprano, baritone with clarinet, violin, cello, contrabass and piano / Jake Heggie ; piano/vocal score ; lyrics by Gene Scheer.

[San Francisco, CA] : Bent Pen Music, [2014?]

Battle-pieces : a cycle of six songs ; for baritone and piano / words by Herman Melville ; music by Paul Phillips.

Fayetteville : Classical Vocal Reprints, 2014.
M1621.4.P556 B37 2014

For a look or a touch : song cycle ; for baritone, flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello and piano / music by Jake Heggie ; lyrics by Gene Scheer..

[San Francisco, CA] : Bent Pen Music, [2013]
FOLIO M1618.H45 F6 2013

Laura sonnets : for baritone voice and piano (2010) / William Bolcom ; [words by] Francesco Petrarca.

New York : Edward B. Marks Music ; Milwaukee, Wis. : Exclusively distributed by Hal Leonard, c2011.
M1618.H45 F6 2013

Love addiction : a cycle of eight songs for baritone and piano (2007) / David Del Tredici ; to the poems of John Kelly.

New York : Boosey & Hawkes ; Milwaukee, Wis. : Distributed by Hal Leonard 2011, c2007.
M1621.4.D394 L68 2011

String quartet no. 2 : Alive in a moment : for baritone and string quartet / Daron Aric Hagen.

New York : Burning Sled Music, [2011?], c2003.
M1613.3.H184 A55 2011

Four melancholy songs : on poetry of William Butler Yeats : for baritone and piano / Glen Roven..

[New York] : Duhirst Music, c2011.
FOLIO M1621.4.R678 M45 2011

This is a short list of recently acquired sacred music featuring bass-baritone.

Four psalms : for baritone voice and strings / by Howard Hanson.

[New York] : Carl Fischer, [2012], c1978.
FOLIO M2103.3.H28 P8 2012

Merton songs : five songs on poems of Thomas Merton : for baritone and piano / Frank Ferko.

Boston, Mass. : E.C. Schirmer : ECS Publishing, c2009.
M1621.F35 M47 2009

Harvest : for baritone voice & chamber orchestra / Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR).

[Verona, NJ] : Notevole Music Publishing : Subito Music, [2010?], c2004.
M2103.R68 H37 2010
 

Four old American hymns / [arr. by] Byron Adams.

Los Angeles, Calif. : Fatrock Ink, c2006.
M2112.A34 O43 2006
 

​Jubilate agno : for soprano, bass baritone and piano : 2004 / Mary Inwood ; text by Christopher Smart.

New York, NY : Seesaw Music Corp., c2004.
M2019.3.I69 J83 2004

Regina Cœli : motet for baritone or bass, 2 violins or flutes & basso continuo / by Rupert Ignaz Mayr ; edited by Alejandro Garri ; keyboard realizations by Kent Carlson.

[Frankfurt am Main?] : Garri Editions, c2004.
FOLIO M2103.3.M39 R44 2004