Music -- General Resources: Find Lyrics and Libretti

1288 Arias - 177 Operas - 65 Composers - 389 Translations - 1027 Aria Texts - 223 MIDIs

Over 100,000 cataloged vocal pieces with 29,000 plus translations; the internet's largest lieder archive.

From Stanford, contains detailed information about operas, including libretti, synopses, performance histories, etc.

Index of libretto pages on the Internet, arranged in alphabetical order by composer and opera.

"comprehensive index of hymns and hymnals"

search for hymns and hymnals by title

Searchable index of bluegrass song lyrics; also includes links to collections of songs by artist and subgenre.

e-text of THE ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH POPULAR BALLADS
by FRANCIS JAMES CHILD.
[1882-1898]

Contains information about traditional, popular and folk tunes from England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales & America.

Information on popular and traditional songs from the Colonial and Revolutionary Era to the early 20th century.

"The Folk Song Index seeks to provide details of English-language traditional songs which have been recorded in any medium - books, journals, newspapers, manuscript collections in public and private hands, published or unpublished sound recordings, videos, websites, and so on."
"The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library (VWML) is England’s national folk music and dance archive, an essential resource for anybody interested in the folk arts."

Provides a brief description and links to the various folk songs.

A collection of over 3,700 lyrics compiled by Traditional Music Library and sorted alphabetically.

Index of folk songs by women, compiled by musician and historian Gerri Gribi.