There is no historical or geographical limit on what can be covered. There is no restriction on the style or genre of song or singing.
A recent recording of two unpublished songs by Amanda Ira Aldridge spur this essay on two songs Aldridge wrote with Marian Anderson’s voice in mind.
Soprano and poet Janani Sridhar discusses the song cycle ‘SingBites’ that she and composer Nicholas Ho wrote as a set of four love songs to Singapore.
The momentous recovery of the long-missing alto partbook of Maddalena Casulana’s five-voice madrigals in the Russian State Library makes possible their first recording.
In this post we turn to “Dog Teeth” by Nicole Dollanganger and to “Gatekeeper” by Jessie Reyez. Content Warning: Discussion of rape and disturbing lyrics.
To commemorate the writings of W. E. B. Du Bois, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor turned to an unexpected source, Christina Rossetti, setting six of her poems for his Six Sorrow Songs.
By 1913 the “indecency” of modern popular songs could no longer be ignored. Members of the National Federation of Music Clubs tried to fight back.
Part II of a conversation with soprano Susan Narucki about her new album of art songs by early 20th-century women composers.
Ivana Lang’s Nokturno (Nocturne), one of the most beautiful of her many songs, spurs a look at her life and work.
In the decades before and after 1900, did it matter to women composers whether the poems they set were written by a man or a woman?
Are there possibly more songs about fall than any other season? Here are 13 great songs and two striking photos.
