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In English/Scottish-English * In French * In German * In Hungarian * In Italian * In Russian

For best results, use a Roland sound module and one of the following programs: Dual Window Karaoke for Windows or Cakewalk. In these programs, you can see synchronized lyrics as you play the files. Most midi sequencers will also be able to play the music parts of the files.

English and Scottish-English

Songs with words by Robert Burns

Afton Water (A. Hume) [SS3]
Auld Lang Syne [SS3 Y]
Corn rigs [SS3 Y]
Green Grow the Rashes O! [SS3]
John Anderson my Jo [SS3 Y]
Last May a Braw Wooer [SS3 Y]
My Ain Kind Dearie [SS3 Y]
My Heart is Sair [SS3]
O Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast (Felix Mendelssohn) [SS3]
Oh, my love is like a red, red rose [SS3]
Scots Wha Hae [SS3]
Tam Glen [SS3 Y]
Ye banks and braes (James Miller) [SS3]

Gilbert and Sullivan

Trial By Jury

Opening Chorus [RR]
Plea of the Defense [RR]

The Mikado

Finale [RR]
Tit Willow Courtesy Jim Farron of The Gilbert & Sullivan Archives

Henry Purcell

Dido's Lament [SS3]

French

Hector Berlioz

Les Nuits d'Été, op. 7

Bizet

Habañera (from Carmen) submitted by Milano, Palleschi, Crawford

Fauré

Cinq mélodies 'de Venise', op. 58 [SS3]

Charles Gounod
- Faust
  - Salut Demeure sequenced by Craig Pinker
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Dans un bois solitaire, K. 308 [SS3]

Maurice Ravel

Cinq Mélodies Populaires Grecques

German

Ludwig van Beethoven

Freudvoll und leidvoll, op. 84 no. 2 [SS3]
Mailied, op. 52 no. 4

Piano/Voice version [SS3]
Orchestrated version [SS3] submitted by Jun Nishio

Resignation, WoO 149 [SS3]

Johannes Brahms

Botschaft, op. 47 no. 1 [SS3]
Der Gang zum Liebchen, op. 48 no. 1 [SS3]
Eine gute, gute Nacht, op. 59 no. 6 [SS3]
Junge Lieder I, op. 63 no. 5 [SS5]
Salamander, op. 107 no. 2

Piano/Voice version [SS3]
Orchestrated verion [SS3] submitted by Jun Nishio

Sonntag, op. 47 no. 3 [SS5]
Ständchen, op. 106 no. 1

Piano/Voice version [SS3]
Orchestrated verion [SS3] submitted by Jun Nishio

Wie bist du meine Königin, op. 32 no. 9 [SS3]
Wie Melodien zieht es mir, op. 105 no. 1 [SS3]

Antonin Dvorák

Als die alte Mutter, op. 55 no. 1 ("Songs my mother taught me") [SS3]

Josephine Lang

Frühzeitiger Frühling (words by Goethe) [SS3]

Franz Liszt

Du bist wie eine Blume, S. 287 (words by Heine) [SS3]

Gustav Mahler

Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde submitted by Jun Nishio
From Des Knaben Wunderhorn

Ablösung im Sommer (quasi-orchestrated) [SS5]

Piano/Voice version [SS3]

Das irdische Leben (quasi-orchestrated) [SS5]

Piano/voice version [SS3]

Lob des hohen Verstands (quasi-orchestrated) [SS5]
Selbstgefühl [SS3]
Starke Einbildungskraft [SS3]
Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen [SS5]

Fanny Mendelssohn

Italien, op. 8 no. 3 (words by Grillparzer) [SS5]

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Altdeutsches Frühlingslied (words by Spee) [SS3]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Das Veilchen, K. 476 [SS3]
Die kleine Spinnerin, K. 531 [SS3]
Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)

Queen of the Night Aria (Act II, Aria No. 4), Full score realization copyright © 1995 by Eric Stéphan
Papageno/Papagena duet (Act II, Scene 9) Submitted by Vincenzo Palleschi

Gesellenreise (Freimaurerlied), K. 468 [SS3]
Sehnsucht nach dem Frühlinge, K. 596 [SS3]

Franz Schubert

An Sylvia (words after Shakespeare) [SS5]
Die Forelle (words by Schubart) [RSF SE]
Erlkönig [SE]
Heidenröslein (words by Goethe) [RR]
Die Schöne Müllerin (words by Müller)

no. 1. Das Wandern (Wandering) [RR]
no. 2. Wohin? (To Where?) [RR]
no. 3. Halt! (Halt!) [RR]
no. 4. Danksagung an den Bach (Thanksgiving to the Brook) [RR]
no. 5. Am Feierabend (An the Restful Evening) [RR]
no. 12. Pause [RR]
no. 19. Der Müller und der Bach

Schwanengesang
- no. 4. Ständchen (Serenade) sequenced by Craig Pinker
Zum Sanctus

Piano/Voice version [SS5]
Orchestrated version submitted by Jun Nishio

Clara Schumann

Am Strand [SS3]
Er ist gekommen in Sturm und Regen, op. 12 no. 2

Piano/Voice version [SS5]
Orchestrated version submitted by Jun Nishio

Liebst du um Schönheit, op. 12 no. 4 [SS3]
Walzer [SS3]

Robert Schumann

Dichterliebe, op. 48

no. 1. Im Wunderschönen Monat Mai [RRF]
no. 4. Wenn ich in deine Augen seh' [SS3]
no. 7. Ich grolle nicht [SS3]
no. 14. Allnächtlich im Traume [SS3]

Die Stille, op. 39 no. 4 [SS3]
Du bist wie eine Blume, op. 25 no. 24 [SS3]
Mondnacht[SS]

Richard Wagner

Tristan und Isolde

Opening scene(quasi-orchestration of piano reduction)
Brangaena's Warning (from Act II) Submitted by Anna and Luca Biancinni
Death Pledges (near end of Act II) Sequencing by Anna and Luca Biancinni, interp. by R. E. Crawford