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Just in time for Valentine’s Day, here are a selection of texts about love. Some texts also include listening links, notations on ideal voice type, and comments from IPA Source Founder & Principal Author, Bard Suverkrop.

Droop Not, Young Lover as set by Georg Friedrich Händel

This is important song, perfect for bass, is from the opera “Ezio”
Text: https://www.ipasource.com/droop-not-young-lover.html

Endless Pleasure, Endless Love as set by Georg Friedrich Händel
This aria, perfect for soprano, is from “Semele”

Text: https://www.ipasource.com/endless-pleasure-endless-love.html
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmR6ewx387w

I Attempt from Love’s Sickness to Fly as set by Henry Purcell
This important song, perfect for soprano, is from “The Indian Queen”

Text: https://www.ipasource.com/i-attempt-from-love-s-sickness-to-fly.html
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6Pyiu1TUNM

Love is a Plaintive Song as set by Sir Arthur Sullivan
This text, perfect for soprano, is from “Patience”

Text: https://www.ipasource.com/love-is-a-plaintive-song.html

Love quickly is pall’d as set by Henry Purcell
This text, perfect for alto, is from “Timon of Athens”

Text: https://www.ipasource.com/love-quickly-is-pall-d.html

Sorry Her Lot Who Loves Too Well as set by Sir Arthur Sullivan
This text, perfect for soprano, is from “H.M.S. Pinafore”

Text: https://www.ipasource.com/sorry-her-lot-who-loves-too-well.html
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci2Ae_iAWo8

When First My Old, Old Love I Knew as set by Sir Arthur Sullivan
This text, perfect for tenor, is from “Trial by Jury”

Text: https://www.ipasource.com/when-first-my-old-old-love-i-knew.html

Love Has Eyes as set by Henry Rowley (Charles Dibdin is the poet)
“This is an important teaching song,” says IPA Source Founder & Principal Author, Bard Suverkrop

Text: https://www.ipasource.com/love-has-eyes.html

Love’s Philosophy as set by Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Perhaps the most important English song in this group,” says IPA Source Founder & Principal Author, Bard Suverkrop

Text: https://www.ipasource.com/love-s-philosophy.html
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwWtrJMelgs

Go, Lovely Rose by Roger Quilter

Text: https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/10509/category/3578/
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4pSEiQkOWY

Amor by Richard Strauss

Text: https://www.ipasource.com/amor-7944.html
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDqIza9VELM

English Collection

op. 12. Seven Elizabethan Lyrics by Roger Quilter

Texts: https://www.ipasource.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=op.+12.+Seven+Elizabethan+Lyrics&order=relevance&dir=desc
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzc8rPRrjtI

German collection

op. 048. Dichterliebe (Poet’s Love) by Robert Schumann
Texts: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/s/schumann-robert-alexander-1810-1856.html?search=op-048-dichterliebe#op-048-dichterliebe
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX1LTPV0QuA

No tricks here! Here are some Halloween treats hand-selected by our founder & principal author, Bard Suverkrop. Enjoy this selection of Halloween-themed art songs and opera texts, which include fach (voice type), listening links and links to the score.

Art Songs

And’res Maienlied: Hexenlied (perfect for soprano)
as set by Felix Mendelssohn
Listen to Barbara Bonney: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5RLvekBqMs
IPA: https://www.ipasource.com/and-res-maienlied-hexenlied.html
Score: http://imslp.org/wiki/12_Ges%C3%A4nge,_Op.8_(Mendelssohn,_Felix)

Junghexenlied (perfect for soprano)
as set by Richard Strauss
Listen to Edita Gruberová: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj0nXK0_ITA
IPA https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/11717/category/1234/
Score: http://imslp.org/wiki/5_Lieder%2C_Op.39_(Strauss%2C_Richard)

Walpurgisnacht: Die Hexe (perfect for soprano)
as set by Karl Loewe
Listen to Gabriele Rossmanith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=045mcWwiOlE
IPA: https://www.ipasource.com/walpurgisnacht-die-hexe.html
Score: http://imslp.org/wiki/3_Balladen,_Op.2_(Loewe,_Carl)

For more ghostly ballads by Karl Loewe, check out the collection Geisterballaden und Geschichten, Todes- und Kirchhofs-Bilder.
http://ks.petruccimusiclibrary.org/files/imglnks/usimg/2/29/IMSLP63615-PMLP129687-Loewe_8.pdf

Opera

Hurr, hopp, hopp, hopp – The witch’s aria from Hänsel und Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck (perfect for mezzo)
Listen to Jamie Barton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2QEdEHKYiM
IPA: https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/1284/category/1464/
Score: http://imslp.org/wiki/H%C3%A4nsel_und_Gretel_(Humperdinck%2C_Engelbert)

Schweig! Damit dich niemand warnt (perfect for bass)
Kaspar’s aria from Der Freischütz
Listen to Ludwig Weber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ALFdAYlZ6w
IPA: https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/1248/category/27/
Score: http://imslp.org/wiki/Der_Freisch%C3%BCtz%2C_Op.77_(Weber%2C_Carl_Maria_von)

Bonus from Bard

I’d forgotten about this great Finnish bass, Kim Borg. Here he is singing the ‘The Song of the Flea‘ (sung in Russian) by Modest Mussorgsky. Unfortunately, we don’t have the IPA for this text, but it’s a great Halloween-themed piece and a marvelous look back on a great performer.