Vocal music limerick, usually written for i voice with piano accompaniment Bar five of Schubert'south art song entitled Nacht und Träume . The vocal part, including the melody notes and the text, is in the elevation stave. The two staves below are the piano office. An art song is a Western vocal music composition, usually written for one phonation with piano accompaniment, and usually in the classical fine art music tradition. By extension, the term "art song" is used to refer to the collective genre of such songs (due east.g., the "art song repertoire"). [1] An art song is most often a musical setting of an independent verse form or text, [ane] "intended for the concert repertory" [2] "as role of a recital or other relatively formal social occasion". [3] While many p