Recommended Repertoire for Women's Voices
Selected from the 20 years of performing repertoire of the choirs directed by Rebecca R. Winnie
WCDA Singspiel 2003
Early Music
O Pastor Animarum
*Caritas Abundat
A chantar m’er de so qu’ieu non volria
Hodie Christus natus est
Renaissance
Il bianco e dolce cigno
Je n'ose etre content
How Merrily We Live
Da Pacem Domine
Tu Mentis Delectatio
Virgines Prudentes
Cantate Domino
*If It Be Love
*Hor care Canzonette
Su su su che'l giorno
Love Learns by Laughing
Sweet Nymph
Though Philomela Lost Her Love
Fammi una canzonetta capricciosa
In the Merry Month of May
(from Canzonets to Three Voices, 1608)
The Nightingale
Thus Sings, My Dearest Jewel
Baroque
Domine Deus - from Mass in G BWV 236
Duet from Cantata No. 9
Ich jauchze, ich lache, from Cantata BWV 15
Wir eilen mit schwachen, doch emsigen Schritten
Aure volanti
*Che Bella Cosa
The Lord is My Shepherd
*O Lovely Peace from Judas Maccabaeus
Quando non ho piœ core
Ah! quelle erreur! (from the opera Armide)
Dolcissimo uscignolo, from Ottavo Libro dei Madrigali
(top 4 parts, cello on bass; the part is exactly the same as
continuo)
I. Stabat Mater,from Stabat Mater
Lauda Jerusalem
Shepherd, Shepherd, Leave Decoying
Sound the Trumpet
Trip It In a Ring
We the Spirits of the Air
Esurientes from Magnificat in G minor
Laudamus te, from Gloria R. 589
Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) (RRW)
Hildegard von Bingen (RRW)
Beatriz de Dia (died ca. 1212) (RRW)
Chant
Jacques Arcadelt (c.1505-1568) (RRW)
Pierre Certon (c.1510-1572)
Michael Este (c.1580-1648)
Melchior Franck (c.1579-1639)
Ruggiero Giovanelli (1560-1625)
Jacob Handl (1550-1591)
Hans Leo Hassler (RRW)
John Hilton (1599-1657)
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Claudio Monteverdi (RRW)
Thomas Morley (ca. 1557-1603)
Thomas Morley
Thomas Morley
Orazio Vecchi (1550-1605)
Henry Youll (fl.1608)
Thomas Weelkes (ca.1575-1623)
Thomas Weelkes
JS Bach (1685-1750)
J.S. Bach
J S Bach
J.S. Bach
Francessca Caccini (1587-after 1637)
Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari (1677-1754)
Maurice Greene (1696-1755)
G.F. Handel (1685-1759)
G.F. Handel
Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
G B Pergolesi (1710-1736)
Niccola Porpora (1686-1768)
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Antonio Vivaldi
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Classical
*Miserere mei from Miserere in D Minor (Psalm 51)
Johann Adolf Hasse (1699-1783)
Dixit Dominus Domino meo, (Psalm 110) from Vesperae pro Johann Michael Haydn (1737-1806)
Festo Sancti Innocentium
Overture to Die Zauberflšte
W.A.Mozart, Vocal Arrangement by Arkadi Serper
19th Century
Three Shakespeare Songs Opus 39
*Come Unto These Yellow Sands
*Over Hill, Over Dale
*Through the House Give Glimmering Light
Die Meere, opus 20 no3
Es tšnt ein voller Harfenklang Opus 17, No. 1
Wenn die Klþnge nahn und fliehen
Ich weiss nicht
Fragen, Opus 44, No. 4
*Salut Printemps (1882)
*Aus meinen Trþnen sprie§en
Die Mitternacht war kalt und stumm
Abendlied
3. Fairy Chorus, from A Midsummer Night's Dream
Herbstlied
Lift Thine Eyes from Elijah
Laudate Pueri Dominum Op. 39, No. 2
Wie kann ich froh und lustig sein?
Wasserfahrt
from The Mikado (1885)
6. Comes a train of little ladies
7. Three little maids from school are we
III. Laudi Alla Vergine Maria, from Quattro Pezzi Sacri
Che faceste? - from Macbeth
20th Century
Gloria Tibi from MASS
Excerpts from A Ceremony of Carols
Balulalow
As Dew in Aprille
This Little Babe
Deo Gracias
*Fancie
The Little Horses
Simple Gifts
*Messe Basse
*Two Eastern Pictures
Hymn of the Travellers
from Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, Group III
Ladybird
Excerpts from Petites voix
God's Bottles
Pueri Hebraeorum (1928)
A Girl's Garden
Sigh No More, Ladies
from Sir John in Love or In Windsor Forest
Amy Beach (1867-1944)
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
Claude Debussy(1862-1918)
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805-1847)
Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
W.S. Gilbert (1836-1911) & Arthur Sullivan (1824-1900)
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Giuseppe Verdi
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Benjamin Britten
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Aaron Copland
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Gustav Holst
Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967)
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Randall Thompson (1899-1984)
Randall Thompson
Randall Thompson
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
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Contemporary Composers
We Are...
Wanting Memories
No Mirrors (1991)
When I Set Out For Lyonnesse
The Last Song
Sigh No More Ladies
Under the Greenwood Tree
Married to a Soldier
Think on Me
Heart, We Will Forget Him (1985)
Measure Me, Sky
Escape at Bedtime
The Sower
For the Beauty of the Earth
Other Traditions
*Cum ba yah
Wade in the Watah
Sim Sholom
Denko (Mali, West Africa)
*Diu Diu Dang A
Harriet Tubman
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Feel Good
Ca' The Yowes
Great Gettin' Up Mornin'
Scarborough Fair
Shenandoah
Poor Man Lazrus
Ain't That News
Camino, Caminante
Nukapianguaq (Inuit Chants)
Las Amarillas (Mexican Folksong)
La Lluvia
ODI ODI
*Run Children Run
Koivisto-Polska
The Cuckoo
Three Mountain Ballads
He's gone Away,
Will He Remember?,
Barbara Allen
Hotaru Koi
*Hamisha Asar (from the Sephardic Tradition of Bosnia)
Niska Banja
Come On Up
I Am In Love, I Dare Not Own It,
Every Night When The Sun Goes In
I'm Goin' Up A Yonder
Two Native American Songs
Utopia (modern shape note composition)
Palomita
Bushes and Briars
* Da Mai Hao Zi, from Three Chinese Songs
Ysaye M. Barnwell
Ysaye Maria Barnwell
Ysaye M. Barnwell
Keith Bissell
Bourland (bell hooks, poet)
Robert A. Boyd
Robert A. Boyd
John Clements
Mary Queen of Scots, arr. Mulholland
James Quitman Mulholland
James Mulholland
Alice Parker
Imant Raminsh
John Rutter
arr. Ysaye Barnwell
arr. Ysaye Barnwell
arr Leonard Berkowitz
arr. Nitanju Bolade Casel
Arr. CHIEN Shan-Hua (b. 1954)
Walter Robinson arr. John Coates
arr. Robert De Cormier
L. Craig Tyson & Leonard Scott, Arranged by
Baker/Elliott
arr. Mary Goetze
Spiritual, arranged by Mary Goetze
arr Mary Goetze
arr Mary Goetze
arr Jester Hairston
Stephen Hatfield
Stephen Hatfield
Adapted by Stephen Hatfield
arr. Stephen Hatfield
Stephen Hatfield
Tamil Song arr. by Stephen Hatfield
Arranged by Stephen Hatfield (b. 1956)
Folk melody from Finland, Arr. J.-A. Hillerud
arr. James Mansfield
arr. Ron Nelson
Japanese Children's Song, Arranged by Ro Ogura
Flory Jagoda, arr. Nick Page
arr. Nick Page
Traditional Spiritual, Arranged by Alice Parker
Appalachian Folk , Arr. Alice Parker
Appalachian Folk Song, arr. Suzanne Hunt Paterson
Walter Hawkins Arr. Martin Sirvatka
Cherokee Songs Arr. Barbara Sletto
Moira Smiley (b. 1976)
Traditional Lament from Peru, Arr. Randal Swiggum
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Arr. Liu Zhuang
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A cappella Vocal Jazz
How Deep is the Ocean
How Do I Love Thee?
*Don't Get Around Much Anymore
Of Thee I Sing (manuscript)
Bye Bye Blackbird
Somewhere Out There
I'm Always Chasing Rainbows
Rock-A-Bye Baby
Holiday Music
S'vivon (Hanukkah)
Go Where I Send Thee
*The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy
Ding Dong! Merrily On High!
A Christmas Alleluia
Seven Principles (Kwanzaa)
The Holly and The Ivy
In Dulci Jubilo
Quem Pastores Laudavere
Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day
Christmas Is Coming
Irving Berlin, Arr. Kirby Shaw
Nathan Christensen
Duke Ellington, Arr. Ward Swingle
George and Ira Gershwin, Arr. Les Thimmig
Dixon/Henderson arr. Arabian
Horner, Mann, & Weil, Arr. Kirby Shaw
Arranged by Kirby Shaw
Arranged by Michele Weir
Arranged by Betty Bertaux
Traditional Spiritual, Arranged by Stephen Hatfield
Traditional Trinidad Carol Arranged by Stephen Hatfield
Arranged by Ed Lojeski
Arranged by Undine Smith Moore (1904-1989)
Bernice Johnson Reagon
Arranged by John Rutter
Traditional German Carol, Arranged by R.L. de Pearsall
and Adapted by John Rutter
Arranged by John Rutter
Traditional English Carol, Arranged by John Rutter
Arranged by Lana Walter
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