SKU: A0.1089383

9 Songs from A Collection of Shakespeare Sonnets for High Voice (Tenor) and Piano. (Lower Range for Baritone sold separately). William Shakespeare Sonnets set to contemporary music. Great for recital, learning, or performance. Includes When in Disgrace With Fortune and Men's Eyes Shall I Compare Thee To A Summers Day O Never Say That I Was False of Heart When My Love Swears That She is Made of Truth O How I Faint When of You I Do Write How Heavy is My Burdon On The Way and more!

SKU: A0.1302220

Song for medium voice 

Text from Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
DURATION: 3:30
WORLD PREMIERE: Carroll University, 2018

A cheeky bit of advice for mezzo-soprano. Appropriate for a cabaret or vocal recital on Shakespearean themes.

SKU: A0.1273506

Two Shakespearean speeches are conflated here into one musical setting by Milo Graamans. The passages are from Hamlet (Act 4, Scene 7, lines 163-184) and Othello (Act 4, Scene 3, lines 25-41). Composition date: ca. 2008.

SKU: LV.8691

Cartoons in Tunes. Sillysonnets. by Rube Goldberg. Published 1917 by Leo Feist, Inc. in New York. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Cats, Caricatures, Satire, Poets, William Shakespeare, Courtship, Love. First line reads Poets rave in thoughts sublime, the words sound foolish but they rhyme..

About The Lester S. Levy Collection

The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. Donated to Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the collection's strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century American through popular music. This sheet music has been provided by Project Gado, a San Francisco Bay Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.

WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents. Language and concepts within reflect the opinions and values of the time and may be offensive to some.

SKU: A0.1368851

Words by William Shakespeare (from A Midsummer Night's Dream).
Loosely based on William Shield's setting. 
Arranged for tenor voice and piano.
(In the youtube demo, the voice part will be performed on Bass Clarinet.).

SKU: LV.19545

I Know a Bank Whereon the Wild Thyme Blows. A Popular Duet. By [William] Shakespeare. Music by Charles E. Horn. Published [n.d.] by E. Riley, 297 Broadway in New York. Composition of sectional with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Authors, Literature, Nature, Fairies, Sleeping. First line reads I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows..

About The Lester S. Levy Collection

The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. Donated to Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the collection's strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century American through popular music. This sheet music has been provided by Project Gado, a San Francisco Bay Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.

WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents. Language and concepts within reflect the opinions and values of the time and may be offensive to some.

SKU: A0.1424997

Text from William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. 
Based on the melody by Henry Bishop (1787-1855), arranged with a new piano part by Konrad Harley (1986-), 2024.

SKU: A0.1359953

Music by Konrad Harley (1986-), inspired by a melody by Maurice Greene (1696-1755) in Clio and Euterpe, or British Harmony, Vol. I (London: Henry Roberts, 1762), p. 174. 
Words by William Shakespeare (1564-1616), from Henry VIII.

SKU: A0.1267646

An Sylvia, D 891; Op. 106, No. 4, is a Lied for voice and piano composed by Franz Schubert (1797-1828) in 1826 and published in 1828. Its text is a German translation by Eduard von Bauernfeld (1802-1890) of Who is Silvia? from act 4, scene 2, of The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare (1564-1616).

Arranged in G major for voice and piano.

SKU: HX.386375

SKU: A0.952694

Seven songs for mezzo-soprano and piano on texts by William Shakespeare and Edmund Spencer. Includes: 1. On a day, alack the day! 2. Being one day at my window, 3. As it fell upon a day, 4. As Diane hunted on a day, 5. Upon a day as love lay sweetly slumb’ring, 6. Calme was the day, 7. It was a lording’s daughter.