Victor Herbert wrote hundreds of songs both located within theatrical works (operetta, musical comedy and opera). Over the years we have found the best way to organize individual songs is by voice. Hopefully you know your range so look for songs in your range category.
The other very important detail is that all of these songs are in their original key. Herbert wrote for particular singers 100% of the time. He was not happy with the wrong voice attempting to change the key of a song to fit a certain voice. We are not the web site to be exploring if you want to change a particular key so you can sing. (Example: Capt Dick in Naughty Marietta was written as a high tenor; Herbert would never have allowed Nelson Eddy or Alfred Drake to sing any of Capt. Dick’s or Adah’s songs for that matter.)
If you explore the Internet, you will find people to transpose any song for you. Just stop looking here.
Letters I Write All Day
$8.00
Description
This is a photocopy of the original 1903 piano vocal score for “Letters I Write All Day” from Herbert’s Babette (1903)which starred Fritzi Scheff in the first of four operettas Herbert wrote for her. Read all about this operetta in Vol 6 June 10 issue of the VHSource Newsletter. This is Ms. Scheff’s first song in the key of G moving to B flat. It’s range is from middle C to B flat and is an acting song as the character of Babette sings about and shows the audience the different characters for whom she writes letters. Middle section particularly low for a coloratura – think “Kiss Me again” in “If I Were On The Stage” although this section is much more sustainably low. Again this is a style and acting song while the big number showy piece from the same show is “Where The Fairest Flow’rs Are Blooming” (also available in Shop VHSource.)
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