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SongBase brings powerful text interpretation tools together in one place, so you can focus on rehearsing, performing, and communicating.
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Major works curated
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Translations across languages
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Everything a singer needs to bring texts to life.
SongBase helps you move from score to stage—and from lesson to rehearsal—with clarity and confidence. Blend scholarship, sound, and storytelling so every practice session, coaching, and rehearsal focuses on expressive artistry rather than confusion, guesswork, or scattered materials.
Clarify every line
Dive into side-by-side poetic and literal translations, footnotes, and contextual notes that reveal nuance for every phrase.
Master pronunciation
Reference IPA transcriptions and spoken demonstrations to internalize pronunciation before you step into the studio.
Stay organized
Collect favorites, manage rehearsal notes, and keep everything in one secure place that travels with you.
Collaborate with ease
Teachers, coaches, conductors, and ensemble leaders can share marked editions, notes, reference recordings, translations, and links directly with their singers—keeping everyone aligned on interpretation and preparation.
What You Can Do with SongBase
Explore, create, rehearse, and collaborate with tools built for singers and the people who support them.
Explore the catalog
Browse curated texts, IPA, translations, pronunciation guides, and audio recitations.
Create custom editions
Build individualized materials for lessons, practice, and rehearsals.
Hear authentic pronunciation
Listen to native speakers or lifelike synthesized readings.
Aligned text & audio
Use synchronized text and audio to study rhythm, flow, and phrasing.
Teach more efficiently
Share editable editions with your students, studio, or ensemble.
Learn more musically
Practice with meaning, pronunciation, and pacing all in one place.
My Editions: Bring Any Text or Song Into SongBase
Not every piece you teach or perform is in the SongBase catalog—and that’s okay. My Editions lets every user create their own custom entry from any text or song.
For all users
- Generate translations in 30+ supported languages (optimized for poetic and literal use).
- Add your own translation manually if you prefer.
- Add a vocal track by recording with your microphone, uploading an existing file, or generating a lifelike synthesized reading.
- Add IPA using guided entry tools.
For Group & Institutional subscribers
- Create a custom edition from any work in the SongBase library to tailor it for your singers.
- Edit translations, refine IPA, add rehearsal recordings, and embed interpretive notes.
- Build a custom IPA database for languages or dialects not yet covered in SongBase.
- Create polished learning materials for studios, ensembles, and curriculum use.
Build confident lyric pronunciation.
Understand each language’s lyric sound system—not just one song.
SongBase provides focused IPA exercises that help singers internalize pronunciation across a language, using essential words, connected lines, and full texts drawn from the SongBase catalog or your own My Editions.
Master the sounds of a language — Move from key words to connected lines to full texts.
Deep practice with your own repertoire — Turn any custom edition into a repeatable diction drill.
Support your studio’s approach — Create shared exercises, track progress, and focus class time on trouble spots.
Word Exercises
FoundationBuild accuracy with the most commonly encountered words in the repertoire.
Line Exercises
FluencyRehearse connected lines drawn directly from the SongBase catalog.
Full-Song IPA
ContinuityCreate full-text drills from any catalog song or any custom song in My Editions.
Subscription Options for Every Singer and Organization
Start with individual access and scale up to collaborative plans when you need shared libraries, assignments, and analytics.
Individual
Perfect for singers, students, and teachers working independently. Full access to the SongBase library, translations, IPA, recordings, and creation tools.
View detailsGroup
Ideal for vocal studios, choirs, vocal ensembles, and opera companies. Provide shared access to your roster, create and distribute custom editions, add rehearsal notes and recordings, and share interpretation materials across your organization.
Compare plansInstitutions
Built for universities, conservatories, and schools of music. Enable full access for faculty and students, manage seats and course groups, and support diction courses, ensemble training, pedagogy classes, and song literature instruction.
Talk with usHighlight Your Performances
Paid subscribers can list their upcoming performances for the entire SongBase community to discover. Whether you're singing a recital, performing with a chorus, or preparing an opera role, SongBase helps audiences find and support your work.
Share clear details
List dates, venues, and programs so listeners can discover and attend.
Reach the community
Get your recitals, choral projects, and roles in front of the full SongBase audience.
Share programs, collaborators, and repertoire highlights alongside your listings.
Spotlight your recitals, concerts, and opera roles.
Present clear details, repertoire notes, and collaborators for every performance.
Who SongBase Is For
Built for individual singers and the organizations that support them.
Singers
Prepare music more efficiently and understand the text with deeper nuance.
Teachers & coaches
Create customized rehearsal materials and guide students through expressive interpretation.
Choirs, ensembles & opera companies
Align diction, meaning, and interpretation across your entire group.
Universities & conservatories
Support diction coursework, ensemble training, and song literature classes.
Frequently Asked Questions
Quick answers to the most common questions about SongBase.
Bring your music and text to life.
Start free today and explore a complete catalog of texts, translations, IPA, and audio tools for singers, teachers, and ensembles.