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Vocal Music Handy Guide: DEI Resources

Your quick guide to solo vocal and choral music resources

Solo Voice Diversity Resources

Solo Voice Web Resources

This is a non-exhaustive list of open-access web resources for solo vocal music. 

To find more general music DEI resources, visit our Music Diversity Guide

  • Corelia Project

    The Corelia Project focuses on bringing the compositions of women to the forefront of the classical music world. This database allows you to discover the music of various women my listening to freely available recordings and links to public domain scores or ways to purchase the work. If you find a work you would like to preform please let a Music Librarian know.

  • Indictus Project

    Indictus Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to amplifying the voices of underrepresented art music composers of all eras. Indictus Project empowers musical artists, sustains the art form with representation and justice, and expands our awareness by collecting, recording, publishing, researching and promoting the staggering amount of art music that remains unexplored by marginalized composers, including but not limited to POC, womxn, LGBTQ+, and religious and ethnic minorities.

  • KASSIA DATABASE: A Database of Art Song by Women Composers

    The Kassia Database is a resource for musicians to aid in the discovery and celebration of art song by women composers. The database includes songs from the Baroque period through the 21st century, and have been categorized by level, voice type, language, composer, and composer dates.

  • SongHelix
    An online tool that enables users to search through the vast repertoire of art songs in order to find just the right piece. The website’s immediate purpose is to give singers and teachers the primary online tool for finding related repertoire. A secondary, and broader purpose will be to help to revitalize the form of voice recital by allowing for creative programming through novel associations.

  • Women Composers Collection
    A collection of mostly 19th- and early 20th-century musical scores by women composers held at the University of Michigan Music Library.

Solo Voice Library Resources

  • Jackson Hearns, Liz, and Brian Kremer. The Singing Teacher’s Guide to Transgender Voices. San Diego, CA: Plural Publishing, Inc, 2018. MT 821 .H436 2018

  • Feltkamp, Aiden K., Myles McLean, Dennis Tobenski, Eric Saroian, Connor Johnson, Hope Salmonson, Griffin Candey, et al., eds. New Music Shelf Anthology of New Music. Vol. 1: Trans and Nonbinaryvoices. Astoria, NY: NewMusicShelf, 2021.

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