Vocal Music Instrumentation Index

We hand-catalogued 12,563 movements of Handel, JS Bach, Haydn, CPE Bach, Buxtehude, Jacquet de La Guerre, Campra, Montéclair, Clérambault and other vocal music – using scholarly sources – so you can browse by instrumentation and text.

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  • Ambruis airs de cour
  • Ariosti cantatas
  • Bernier cantatas
  • Bononcini cantatas
  • Bruhns cantatas
  • Cavalli vocal works
  • Charpentier vocal works
  • Clérambault motets
  • Cozzolani vocal works
  • Graupner cantatas
  • Heinichen vocal works
  • Jommelli cantatas
  • Lambert airs de cour
  • Leo vocal works
  • Monteverdi vocal works
  • Mozart vocal works
  • Purcell vocal works
  • Rameau (other)
  • Rameau opéras-ballets
  • Rameau motets
  • Rossini operas
  • Scarlatti vocal works
  • Schütz kleine Konzerte
  • Stölzel vocal works
  • Strozzi vocal works
  • Telemann vocal works
  • Vaughan Williams vocalises
  • Vivaldi cantatas
  • Zachow vocal works
  • Zelenka vocal works

Arias by voice type

Arias with strings

Arias with plucked strings

Arias with woodwinds

Arias with brass

Arias with keyboards

Arias with percussion

Soprano duets

Alto duets

Tenor duets

Bass duets

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