Vocal Exercises For Opera & Classical Singers

Judy Clark : Vaccai Vocal Exercises - Vol. 2

Review: This book and CD package consists of 12 vocal exercises that help train the voice using various intervals, octaves, syncopation, appoggiatura, mordent, gruppetto and more. Expand your vocal experience as well as your musical vocabulary. The 24-page booklet includes printed sheet music and a training practice log to help the artist/student stay focused. A total of 48 exercises are included on the CD (12 exercises recorded in 4 vocal ranges). All these exercises were used by the late Maestro David Kyle in his vocal training regimen. Maestro Kyle has trained thousands of artists, many who are nationally famous. All of the exercises in this set have been adapted from the original versions to be in a more usable format for this training program, and also in an effort to accommodate various singing levels. The set consists of English words only, not the Italian version. All vocalists can benefit greatly from these exercises, no matter what their experience or training level!

Songlist: About the Author, Exercise Listing and Practice Tips, Special Notes and Enunciation Tips, Vaccai Exercises 13-21, The Mordent, Different Ways of Executing the Mordent, Introduction to the Gruppetto or Turn, The Gruppetto or Turn, Introduction to the Trill or Shake, Runs and Scale Passages, The Portamento, The Portamento - Second Method, Comprehensive Study, Theory 1, Theory 2, Practice Log, Contact info and Products Page

Mathilde Marchesi : Twenty-four Vocalises for Soprano, Op. 3

Review: Mathilde Marchesi was a mezzo-soprano, teacher of singing, and exponent of the bel canto technique. She was an advocate of a naturalistic style of singing: she called for a fairly instinctive method of breathing and was particularly concerned with vocal registration, calling it "the Alpha and Omega of the formation and development of the female voice, the touchstone of all singing methods".

Songlist: Twenty-four Vocalises

Voicing: Soprano

Mathilde Marchesi : Twenty-four Vocalises for Soprano, Op. 3

Review: Mathilde Marchesi was a mezzo-soprano, teacher of singing, and exponent of the bel canto technique. She was an advocate of a naturalistic style of singing: she called for a fairly instinctive method of breathing and was particularly concerned with vocal registration, calling it "the Alpha and Omega of the formation and development of the female voice, the touchstone of all singing methods".

Songlist: Twenty-four Vocalises

Voicing: Soprano

George Dodds : Voice Placing and Training Exercises - Low Voice

Review: A series of carefully graded progressive exercises to improve singing technique, for both solo singers and choirs. Includes exercises focussing on breathing and breath control, the production of vowel-sounds and consonants, good singing technique, and ear-training.

Songlist: Warm ups and exercises

Voicing: Low

George Dodds : Voice Placing and Training Exercises - Low Voice

Review: A series of carefully graded progressive exercises to improve singing technique, for both solo singers and choirs. Includes exercises focussing on breathing and breath control, the production of vowel-sounds and consonants, good singing technique, and ear-training.

Songlist: Warm ups and exercises

Voicing: Low

George Dodds : Voice Placing and Training Exercises - Low Voice

Review: A series of carefully graded progressive exercises to improve singing technique, for both solo singers and choirs. Includes exercises focussing on breathing and breath control, the production of vowel-sounds and consonants, good singing technique, and ear-training.

Songlist: Warm ups and exercises

Voicing: Low

Erik Bergman : Four Vocalises for Mezzo-Soprano & Male Voices

Review: 'Four Vocalises for Chorus' is a great collection of warm-ups for your choir.

Songlist: Four Vocalises

Voicing: Mezzo-Soprano

Erik Bergman : Four Vocalises for Mezzo-Soprano & Male Voices

Review: 'Four Vocalises for Chorus' is a great collection of warm-ups for your choir.

Songlist: Four Vocalises

Voicing: Mezzo-Soprano

Balthazar Lutgen : Vocalises: 20 Daily Exercises, Volume II

Review: The aim of these Vocalises is to render the voice sufficiently flexible and mellow to execute easily and elegantly the coloratura and embellishments found in the works of our great composers. Proceeding from the principle, that it is unpractical to practice a variety of difficult passages at the same time, I begin with two, three, and four tones, then advancing progressively to more difficult exercises; leaving it to the teacher to transpose them a semitone higher or lower. However, in order to avoid the monotony and lassitude which are almost inseparable from a strictly methodic in a musical and agreeable form; and have made them very short, to prevent overexertion of the voice. Following its avowed purpose, this work contains no exercises for sustained tones; and it will suffice to sing daily a few long-sustained tones, before taking up these exercises. The results obtained with this method, and its approbation by several of the highest musical authorities, justify my hope, that it will find a favorable reception.

Songlist: 20 Daily Exercises

Voicing: Medium

Balthazar Lutgen : Vocalises: 20 Daily Exercises, Volume II

Review: The aim of these Vocalises is to render the voice sufficiently flexible and mellow to execute easily and elegantly the coloratura and embellishments found in the works of our great composers. Proceeding from the principle, that it is unpractical to practice a variety of difficult passages at the same time, I begin with two, three, and four tones, then advancing progressively to more difficult exercises; leaving it to the teacher to transpose them a semitone higher or lower. However, in order to avoid the monotony and lassitude which are almost inseparable from a strictly methodic in a musical and agreeable form; and have made them very short, to prevent overexertion of the voice. Following its avowed purpose, this work contains no exercises for sustained tones; and it will suffice to sing daily a few long-sustained tones, before taking up these exercises. The results obtained with this method, and its approbation by several of the highest musical authorities, justify my hope, that it will find a favorable reception.

Songlist: 20 Daily Exercises

Voicing: Medium

Mathilde Marchesi : Twenty-four Vocalises for Soprano or Mezzo-Soprano, Op. 2

Review: Mathilde Marchesi was a mezzo-soprano, teacher of singing, and exponent of the bel canto technique. She was an advocate of a naturalistic style of singing: she called for a fairly instinctive method of breathing and was particularly concerned with vocal registration, calling it "the Alpha and Omega of the formation and development of the female voice, the touchstone of all singing methods".

Songlist: Twenty-four Vocalises

Voicing: Mezzo-Soprano

Mathilde Marchesi : Twenty-four Vocalises for Soprano or Mezzo-Soprano, Op. 2

Review: Mathilde Marchesi was a mezzo-soprano, teacher of singing, and exponent of the bel canto technique. She was an advocate of a naturalistic style of singing: she called for a fairly instinctive method of breathing and was particularly concerned with vocal registration, calling it "the Alpha and Omega of the formation and development of the female voice, the touchstone of all singing methods".

Songlist: Twenty-four Vocalises

Voicing: Mezzo-Soprano

Various Arrangers : Vocalises in the Modern Style

Review: A collection of 16 vocalises by various composers including Alfano, Casella, Malipiero, Pizzeti, Respighi and more.

Voicing: Medium

Various Arrangers : Vocalises in the Modern Style

Review: A collection of 16 vocalises by various composers including Alfano, Casella, Malipiero, Pizzeti, Respighi and more.

Voicing: Medium

Ferdinand Sieber : Ten Easy Vocalises and Solfeggios

Review: The Sieber Vocalises: It is important to know why Sieber is so good for the voice. He was a Viennese, Italian-trained voice teacher who knew the importance of vowel alteration and its role in keeping the balance of the registers. The Sieber Vocalises are designed to balance the registers using 8 measure melodies based on the Italian syllables da, me, ni, po, to, la, be. The register balance is achieved in the ingenious way Sieber arranges the syllables. Again, his goal it to allow the space of the open vowels in the closed vowels, and the ring of the closed vowels in the open vowels. Lindquest called these vocalises the 'bridge between vocalizing and singing music'. In my 25 years of teaching, I have never found a singer that the Sieber Vocalises did not help tremendously. Ten Easy Vocalises and Solfeggios for the baritone voice

Songlist: Ten Easy Vocalises and Solfeggios

Voicing: Baritone

Ferdinand Sieber : Ten Easy Vocalises and Solfeggios

Review: The Sieber Vocalises: It is important to know why Sieber is so good for the voice. He was a Viennese, Italian-trained voice teacher who knew the importance of vowel alteration and its role in keeping the balance of the registers. The Sieber Vocalises are designed to balance the registers using 8 measure melodies based on the Italian syllables da, me, ni, po, to, la, be. The register balance is achieved in the ingenious way Sieber arranges the syllables. Again, his goal it to allow the space of the open vowels in the closed vowels, and the ring of the closed vowels in the open vowels. Lindquest called these vocalises the 'bridge between vocalizing and singing music'. In my 25 years of teaching, I have never found a singer that the Sieber Vocalises did not help tremendously. Ten Easy Vocalises and Solfeggios for the baritone voice

Songlist: Ten Easy Vocalises and Solfeggios

Voicing: Baritone

Giuseppe Concone : Fifteen Vocalises, Op. 12 (Finishing Studies)

Review: The sterling value and great usefulness of Concone's lessons have been so long recognized, that their extensive adoption caused the issue of numerous editions in almost every country where the study of the Art of Singing is cultivated. No edition, however, is as thorough and complete as his 'Fifty Lessons' series. The purpose of these lessons, in the author's own words, are 'to place and fix the voice accurately,' and 'to develop taste while singing broad, elegant and rhythmical melodies.' This is a vocal training series not to be missed!

Songlist: Fifteen Vocalises

Voicing: High

Giuseppe Concone : Fifteen Vocalises, Op. 12 (Finishing Studies)

Review: The sterling value and great usefulness of Concone's lessons have been so long recognized, that their extensive adoption caused the issue of numerous editions in almost every country where the study of the Art of Singing is cultivated. No edition, however, is as thorough and complete as his 'Fifty Lessons' series. The purpose of these lessons, in the author's own words, are 'to place and fix the voice accurately,' and 'to develop taste while singing broad, elegant and rhythmical melodies.' This is a vocal training series not to be missed!

Songlist: Fifteen Vocalises

Voicing: High

Heinrich Panofka : The Art of Singing; 24 Vocalises, Op. 81

Review: Panofka was one of the great 19th century voice teachers. His background as a violinist and composer greatly informed these athletic bel canto vocalise compositions. Op. 81 is for soprano, mezzo-soprano or tenor.

Songlist: 24 Vocalises

Voicing: Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, T

Heinrich Panofka : The Art of Singing; 24 Vocalises, Op. 81

Review: Panofka was one of the great 19th century voice teachers. His background as a violinist and composer greatly informed these athletic bel canto vocalise compositions. Op. 81 is for soprano, mezzo-soprano or tenor.

Songlist: 24 Vocalises

Voicing: Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, T

Marco Bordogni : Thirty-six Vocalises in Modern Style

Review: Bordogni made his operatic debut at La Scala, Milan in 1813 in Rossini's Tancredi, and became very active in promoting that composer's music. He appeared in many of Rossini's operas and later became one of the leading teacher of singing and became a teacher at the Paris Conservatoire.

Songlist: Thirty-six Vocalises

Voicing: Soprano

Marco Bordogni : Thirty-six Vocalises in Modern Style

Review: Bordogni made his operatic debut at La Scala, Milan in 1813 in Rossini's Tancredi, and became very active in promoting that composer's music. He appeared in many of Rossini's operas and later became one of the leading teacher of singing and became a teacher at the Paris Conservatoire.

Songlist: Thirty-six Vocalises

Voicing: Soprano

Mathilde Marchesi : Twenty Elementary and Progressive Vocalises, Op. 15

Review: Mathilde Marchesi was a mezzo-soprano, teacher of singing, and exponent of the bel canto technique. She was an advocate of a naturalistic style of singing: she called for a fairly instinctive method of breathing and was particularly concerned with vocal registration, calling it "the Alpha and Omega of the formation and development of the female voice, the touchstone of all singing methods".

Voicing: Alto

Mathilde Marchesi : Twenty Elementary and Progressive Vocalises, Op. 15

Review: Mathilde Marchesi was a mezzo-soprano, teacher of singing, and exponent of the bel canto technique. She was an advocate of a naturalistic style of singing: she called for a fairly instinctive method of breathing and was particularly concerned with vocal registration, calling it "the Alpha and Omega of the formation and development of the female voice, the touchstone of all singing methods".

Voicing: Alto

Horatio Connell : Master Vocal Exercises

Review: A compilation of vocal study material selected from the master exercises created by the greatest masters of singing of history, from the old Italian school to the present, and arranged for universal employment with the best methods of skilled voice teachers.

Horatio Connell : Master Vocal Exercises

Review: A compilation of vocal study material selected from the master exercises created by the greatest masters of singing of history, from the old Italian school to the present, and arranged for universal employment with the best methods of skilled voice teachers.

Ferdinand Sieber : 36 Eight-Measure Vocalises for Elementary Teaching

Review: The Sieber Vocalises: It is important to know why Sieber is so good for the voice. He was a Viennese, Italian-trained voice teacher who knew the importance of vowel alteration and its role in keeping the balance of the registers. The Sieber Vocalises are designed to balance the registers using 8 measure melodies based on the Italian syllables da, me, ni, po, to, la, be. The register balance is achieved in the ingenious way Sieber arranges the syllables. Again, his goal it to allow the space of the open vowels in the closed vowels, and the ring of the closed vowels in the open vowels. Lindquest called these vocalises the 'bridge between vocalizing and singing music'. In my 25 years of teaching, I have never found a singer that the Sieber Vocalises did not help tremendously. 36 Eight-Measure Vocalises for Elementary Teaching for alto voices.

Songlist: 36 Eight-Measure Vocalises for Elementary Teaching

Voicing: Alto

Heinrich Panofka : Twenty-four Progressive Vocalises, Op. 85, Volume I

Review: Panofka was one of the great 19th century voice teachers. His background as a violinist and composer greatly informed these athletic bel canto vocalise compositions. Op. 81 is for alto or tenor.

Songlist: Twenty-four Progressive Vocalises

Voicing: Alto Tenor

Heinrich Panofka : Twenty-four Progressive Vocalises, Op. 85, Volume I

Review: Panofka was one of the great 19th century voice teachers. His background as a violinist and composer greatly informed these athletic bel canto vocalise compositions. Op. 81 is for alto or tenor.

Songlist: Twenty-four Progressive Vocalises

Voicing: Alto Tenor

Mathilde Marchesi : Twenty Elementary and Progressive Vocalises, Op. 15

Review: Mathilde Marchesi was a mezzo-soprano, teacher of singing, and exponent of the bel canto technique. She was an advocate of a naturalistic style of singing: she called for a fairly instinctive method of breathing and was particularly concerned with vocal registration, calling it "the Alpha and Omega of the formation and development of the female voice, the touchstone of all singing methods".

Songlist: Twenty Elementary and Progressive Vocalises

Voicing: Medium

Mathilde Marchesi : Twenty Elementary and Progressive Vocalises, Op. 15

Review: Mathilde Marchesi was a mezzo-soprano, teacher of singing, and exponent of the bel canto technique. She was an advocate of a naturalistic style of singing: she called for a fairly instinctive method of breathing and was particularly concerned with vocal registration, calling it "the Alpha and Omega of the formation and development of the female voice, the touchstone of all singing methods".

Songlist: Twenty Elementary and Progressive Vocalises

Voicing: Medium

Marco Bordogni : Twenty-four Easy Vocalises in Progressive Order

Review: Bordogni made his operatic debut at La Scala, Milan in 1813 in Rossini's Tancredi, and became very active in promoting that composer's music. He appeared in many of Rossini's operas and later became one of the leading teacher of singing and became a teacher at the Paris Conservatoire.

Songlist: Thirty-six Vocalises

Voicing: Alto

Marco Bordogni : Twenty-four Easy Vocalises in Progressive Order

Review: Bordogni made his operatic debut at La Scala, Milan in 1813 in Rossini's Tancredi, and became very active in promoting that composer's music. He appeared in many of Rossini's operas and later became one of the leading teacher of singing and became a teacher at the Paris Conservatoire.

Songlist: Thirty-six Vocalises

Voicing: Alto

A Dannhauser : Solfeo de los Solfeos - Book I

Review: In Spanish.

Adolphe Danhauser : Solfége des Solféges - Book I

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Adolphe Danhauser : Solfége des Solféges - Book II

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Adolphe Danhauser : Solfége des Solféges - Book III

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Emile Behnke and Charles W. Pearce : Thirty Voice-Training Exercises - Soprano

Review: A collection of vocal exercises arranged for Soprano voice, composed by Emile Behnke and Charles W. Pearce.

Voicing: Soprano

Francesco Lamperti : Daily Exercises in Singing

Review: Expertly arranged Vocal Method by Francesco Lamperti from the Kalmus Edition series. This is from the Romantic era.

Francesco Lamperti : Daily Exercises in Singing

Review: Expertly arranged Vocal Method by Francesco Lamperti from the Kalmus Edition series. This is from the Romantic era.

Germaine Tailleferre : Vocalise Etude - High Voice

Review: Written in 1929 as part of the Repertoire moderne de vocalises-e´tudes series. It can be heard at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SL2xgwIOvY

Voicing: High

Giuseppe Concone : Forty Lessons, Opus 17 - Alto

Review: Expertly arranged Vocal Method by Giuseppe Concone from the Kalmus Edition series. This is from the Romantic era.

Voicing: Alto

Giuseppe Concone : Forty Lessons, Opus 17 - Alto

Review: Expertly arranged Vocal Method by Giuseppe Concone from the Kalmus Edition series. This is from the Romantic era.

Voicing: Alto

Giuseppe Concone : The School of Sight-Singing: Practical Method for Young Beginners (Lutgen)

Review: Expertly arranged Vocal Method by Giuseppe Concone from the Kalmus Edition series. This is from the Romantic era.

Panofka H P : 24 Progressive Vocalises, Op. 85 - Book 1

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Sergei Rachmaninoff : Vocalise Op. 34 No. 14

Review: Rachmaninoff composed his collection of 13 songs Op. 34 in 1912, but it was only three years later that he added a little closing piece without any text: the Vocalise, which soon outshone the other songs in terms of popularity and renown. Since its first performance in 1916 this expressive, melancholy piece has circulated in countless arrangements by others. Rachmaninoff himself made an arrangement for orchestra and voice, as well as one for orchestra alone. Henle's Urtext edition contains the original version for high voice and piano, and is based on the autograph sources in the Glinka Museum in Moscow. A particular highlight is the separate vocal part that not only serves singers well but also all those instrumentalists who wish to play this wonderful piece using the original solo part.

Voicing: High

Sergei Rachmaninoff : Vocalise Op. 34 No. 14

Review: Rachmaninoff composed his collection of 13 songs Op. 34 in 1912, but it was only three years later that he added a little closing piece without any text: the Vocalise, which soon outshone the other songs in terms of popularity and renown. Since its first performance in 1916 this expressive, melancholy piece has circulated in countless arrangements by others. Rachmaninoff himself made an arrangement for orchestra and voice, as well as one for orchestra alone. Henle's Urtext edition contains the original version for high voice and piano, and is based on the autograph sources in the Glinka Museum in Moscow. A particular highlight is the separate vocal part that not only serves singers well but also all those instrumentalists who wish to play this wonderful piece using the original solo part.

Voicing: High

Sergei Rachmaninoff : Vocalise Op. 34, No. 14

Review: Part of the 3-keys-in-1 Series, featuring three keys in one edition: High voice (c-sharp minor); Medium voice (b minor); Low voice (g minor). Includes a preface by Gordon Stewart (vocal coach at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London) and provides historical context and a guide to performance

Voicing: High

Sergei Rachmaninoff : Vocalise Op. 34, No. 14

Review: Part of the 3-keys-in-1 Series, featuring three keys in one edition: High voice (c-sharp minor); Medium voice (b minor); Low voice (g minor). Includes a preface by Gordon Stewart (vocal coach at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London) and provides historical context and a guide to performance

Voicing: High

Various : Collected Vocalises: High Voice - Concone, Lutgen, Sieber, Vaccai

Review: With over 150 vocalises, this collection will be very useful for many teachers and students of singing. Includes CONCONE: Fifty Lessons for Voice, Op. 9 - LÜTGEN: The Art of Vocal Velocity - SIEBER: 36 Eight-Measure Vocalises for Soprano, Op. 92 - SIEBER: 36 Eight-Measure Vocalises for Tenor, Op. 95 - VACCAI: Practical Method of Italian Singing

Voicing: High