Repertoire Guidelines for Voice
Students should be working on, or able to sing music at the level indicated by these selections. These are guidelines for repertoire, the student does not necessarily need to sing these specific pieces. Students should perform two songs of contrasting styles. Levels 4 – 6 should perform two songs of contrasting styles in two different languages. Selections should be memorized.
Scale requirements:
- Levels A & B Sing a major scale using Do, Re Mi, ascending only
- Levels 1 – 3 Sing a major scale (using note names or solfege) ascending and descending
- Levels 4 – 6 Sing a major scale and harmonic minor scale (using note names or solfege) ascending and descending
Levels A & B (grades 1-4 or students who have just started lessons)
Very early vocal literature, easy folk songs, very easy Disney
Level 1
- American Folk Songs (Simple Gifts, Long, Long Ago)
- Britten Friday Afternoons
- Broadway/Disney
- English Folk Songs (Country Gardens, The Lark in the Morn)
- Scottish/Welsh Folk Songs (Skye Boat Song, All Through the Night)
Level 2
- American Folk Songs (The Water Is Wide, All the Pretty Little Horses, Long Time Ago, Shenandoah)
- Broadway/ Gilbert & Sullivan
- Copland Old American Songs
- English Folk Songs (Early One Morning, Scarborough Fair )
- Stephen Foster Songs
- Irish/Welsh Folk Songs (Down By the Sally Gardens, Suo Gan)
- Schubert Lieder (easier songs)
- Spirituals
Level 3
- Bach Sacred Songs (easier)
- Brahms Lieder (easier)
- Broadway (West Side Story, My Fair Lady, Camelot, Oklahoma, Music Man)
- Copland Old American Songs
- English / French Folk Songs (Sweet Polly Oliver, When Love Is Kind, Le Godiveau De Poisson)
- Handel / Haydn (easier)
- Spirituals
- Peter Warlock Songs
Level 4
- Bach Sacred Songs
- Bernstein Art Songs (also from Candide, West Side Story)
- Britten Folk Song Arrangements
- Broadway (Kiss Me Kate, Carousel, Secret Garden, Les Miserables)
- Anthology of Italian Songs
- 24 Italian Songs and Arias
- Copland Old American Songs (harder, Set I and II)
- Dvorak Biblical Songs Op. 99
- Handel 45 Arias from Operas and Oratorios
- Haydn Lieder
- Mendelssohn Sacred Arias
- Niles Songs
- Purcell Arias
- Schubert 200 Songs
- Schumann Lieder
- Spirituals
- Zaninelli Five Folk Songs
Level 5
- Bach Arias
- Barber Songs
- Brahms Leider
- Anthology of Italian Songs
- Classical Sacred Songs (Panis Angelicus, Maria Wiegenlied)
- Copland Old American Songs
- Debussy Songs
- Faure 30 Songs for Voice and Piano
- 40 French Songs
- Handel (from Messiah)
- Mendelssohn (from Elijah)
- Mozart Lieder
- Purcell Arias
- Schubert 200 Songs
- Schumann Lieder
- Strauss German Songs
- Vaughan-Williams Songs of Travel
Level 6
- Bach Arias
- Brahms Lieder
- Debussy Songs
- 40 French Songs
- Faure Songs
- Gounod Arias
- Handel 45 Arias from Operas and Oratorios
- Mozart Opera Arias / Sacred Arias
- Puccini Arias
- Schubert Lieder (harder)
- Strauss Songs
- Menotti Opera Arias
- Vivaldi Arias
- Vaughan-Williams Songs of Travel
- Sacred Arias
- Opera Arias