INDEX OF SONG TITLES
(entered to date)
A
- A Dream Within a Dream (in Echo's Songs)
- Composer:
- Daron Aric Hagen
- Text:
- Edgar Allan Poe
- A Julia de Burgos (in Songfest)
- Composer:
- Leonard Bernstein
- Text:
- Julia de Burgos
- A Necklace of Love
- Composer:
- Ethelbert Nevin
- Text:
- Frank Lebby Stanton
- A Parable: A Blade of Grass
- Composer:
- Marion Bauer
- Text:
- Stephen Crane
- A Woman's Life - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Richard Danielpour
- Text:
- Maya Angelou
- Absalom
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- Text:
- Paul Goodman
- Accomplice
- Composer:
- Stefania de Kenessey
- Text:
- Dana Gioia
- Acquainted With The Night
- Composer:
- John Duke
- Text:
- Robert Frost
- Across the World (Villanelle)
- Composer:
- Amy Marcy Beach
- Text:
- Edith Matilda Thomas
- The Actor
- Composer:
- William Bolcom
- Text:
- Arnold Weinstein
- An Address (in Burning)
- Composer:
- Dorothy Chang
- Text:
- William Carlos Williams
- Africa (in Old Addresses)
- Composer:
- William Bolcom
- Text:
- Arnold Weinstein
- Africa
- Composer:
- Jake Heggie
- Text:
- Maya Angelou
- An African Love Song
- Composer:
- Ethelbert Nevin
- Text:
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- After Death in Arabia (in In Memoriam)
- Composer:
- James H. Rogers
- Text:
- Sir Edwin Arnold
- After Hours - Song Collection
- Composer:
- John Harbison
- After Sunset (in Four Sea Lyrics)
- Composer:
- Louis Campbell-Tipton
- Text:
- Arthur Symons
- After great pain, a formal feeling comes — (in Beyond Circumference)
- Composer:
- Leo Smit
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- After the Dazzle of Day
- Composer:
- Marc Blitzstein
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- Aftermath - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- Afternoon on a Hill (in 5 Songs For Children)
- Composer:
- Lita Grier
- Text:
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Afternoon on a Hill
- Composer:
- Ricky Ian Gordon
- Text:
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Afternoon on a Hill
- Composer:
- Arthur Farwell
- Text:
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Afterthought
- Composer:
- Leonard Bernstein
- Text:
- Leonard Bernstein
- Ages and Ages
- Composer:
- Marc Blitzstein
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway!
- Composer:
- Stephen Foster
- Text:
- Stephen Foster
- Ah, Love, But a Day (op. 44, no. 2) (in Three Browning Songs, Op. 44)
- Composer:
- Amy Marcy Beach
- Text:
- Robert Browning
- Ah, Love, But a Day (in Six Songs, Op. 27 (Browning Songs))
- Composer:
- Clara Kathleen Rogers
- Text:
- Robert Browning
- Ailey, Baldwin, Floyd, Killens, and Mayfield (in Let Evening Come)
- Composer:
- William Bolcom
- Text:
- Maya Angelou
- The Air is the Only
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- Text:
- Howard Moss
- Air
- Composer:
- Ricky Ian Gordon
- Text:
- Frank O'Hara
- Alabaster Wool (Snowfall)
- Composer:
- Ernst Bacon
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- Alice Rodd (in Eight Epitaphs)
- Composer:
- Theodore Chanler
- Text:
- Walter De la Mare
- All I Have (in Songs From Letters)
- Composer:
- Libby Larsen
- Text:
- Calamity Jane
- All Quiet along the Potomac Tonight
- Composer:
- John Hill Hewitt
- Text:
- Ethel Lynn Beers
- All along the meadow (in The Running Sun)
- Composer:
- Robert Helps
- Text:
- James Purdy
- Allegro
- Composer:
- Charles Ives
- Text:
- Charles Ives
- Alley Cat Love Song
- Composer:
- Beth Anderson
- Text:
- Dana Gioia
- Alley Cat Love Song (in Bad Pets)
- Composer:
- Paul Salerni
- Text:
- Dana Gioia
- Alley Cat Love Song
- Composer:
- Alva Henderson
- Text:
- Dana Gioia
- Alone (in Three Songs)
- Composer:
- Joseph Turrin
- Text:
- Sara Teasdale
- Along With Me
- Composer:
- Lori Laitman
- Text:
- Robert Browning
- Alter? When the Hills Do
- Composer:
- Anna Weesner
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- Amazing Grace
- Composer:
- H. Leslie Adams
- Text:
- H. Leslie Adams
- America 1968 - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Tom Cipullo
- Text:
- Robert Hayden
- America
- Composer:
- Jake Heggie
- Text:
- Maya Angelou
- American Lullaby
- Composer:
- Gladys Rich
- Text:
- Gladys Rich
- Amor
- Composer:
- William Bolcom
- Text:
- Arnold Weinstein
- Ample Make This Bed (op. 108, no. 7)
- Composer:
- Arthur Farwell
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- Ample Make This Bed (in How Well I Knew the Light)
- Composer:
- Jake Heggie
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- Ample make this Bed — (in Confiding)
- Composer:
- David Leisner
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- An E. E. Cummings Songbook - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Daniel Asia
- Text:
- E. E. Cummings
- An Old Song Resung
- Composer:
- Charles Griffes
- Text:
- John Masefield
- Ancient Christmas Carol (in Six Songs)
- Composer:
- Ernst Bacon
- Text:
- Anonymous
- And Did Those Feet? (in Five Songs From William Blake)
- Composer:
- Virgil Thomson
- Text:
- William Blake
- And you as well must die... (in Love is not all...)
- Composer:
- Alva Henderson
- Text:
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Angel Wings
- Composer:
- Ricky Ian Gordon
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- Angels Have I None/The Phoenix Prayer
- Composer:
- John Musto
- Text:
- Katherine Mosby
- Angels are the Highest Form of Virtue
- Composer:
- William Bolcom
- Text:
- Arnold Weinstein
- Angels' Wings
- Composer:
- Jake Heggie
- Text:
- Gene Scheer
- The Angle of a Landscape — (in Tinted Mountains)
- Composer:
- Leo Smit
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- Angélique (in Night Songs: Four Poems of A. Crapsey)
- Composer:
- Lee Hoiby
- Text:
- Adelaide Crapsey
- Anita (op. 41, no. 1)
- Composer:
- Amy Marcy Beach
- Text:
- Cora Randall Fabbri
- Ann Poverty (in Eight Epitaphs)
- Composer:
- Theodore Chanler
- Text:
- Walter De la Mare
- Ann Street
- Composer:
- Charles Ives
- Text:
- Maurice Morris
- Annabel Lee
- Composer:
- Daniel Steven Crafts
- Text:
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Anniversary Song (in Fidelity)
- Composer:
- David Leisner
- Text:
- Wendell Berry
- Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House (in Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun...)
- Composer:
- Tom Cipullo
- Text:
- Billy Collins
- Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun... - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Tom Cipullo
- Text:
- Billy Collins
- Answer the First Rap (in Half-Minute Songs)
- Composer:
- Carrie Jacobs-Bond
- Text:
- Carrie Jacobs-Bond
- Antonia in the Field... (in My Antonia)
- Composer:
- Libby Larsen
- Text:
- Willa Cather
- Antonia (in My Antonia)
- Composer:
- Libby Larsen
- Text:
- Willa Cather
- The Apparition
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- Text:
- Theodore Roethke
- Apparitions (in Six Songs, Op. 27 (Browning Songs))
- Composer:
- Clara Kathleen Rogers
- Text:
- Robert Browning
- The Apple Orchard
- Composer:
- Lori Laitman
- Text:
- Dana Gioia
- The Apple's Song
- Composer:
- Libby Larsen
- April Fool Baby
- Composer:
- Paul Bowles
- Text:
- Gertrude Stein
- April Rain Song (in Daybreak in Alabama)
- Composer:
- John Stone
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- Are you the new person drawn toward me? (in Fidelity)
- Composer:
- David Leisner
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- Are you the new person?
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- The Argument
- Composer:
- Curtis Bryant
- Text:
- William Blake
- Aria (To a Lady) (in Lincoln Letters)
- Composer:
- Christopher Berg
- Text:
- Abraham Lincoln
- Ariette (op. 1, no. 4)
- Composer:
- Amy Marcy Beach
- Aristocracy (op. 105, no. 8)
- Composer:
- Arthur Farwell
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- Around My Neck an Amulet
- Composer:
- Miriam Gideon
- Text:
- Samuel Menashe
- The Artist
- Composer:
- Anna Weesner
- Text:
- William Carlos Williams
- As Adam Early in the Morning
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- As Adam
- Composer:
- Marc Blitzstein
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- As I Watch'd the Ploughman Ploughing
- Composer:
- Philip Dalmas
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- As If a Phantom Caress'd Me
- Composer:
- Marc Blitzstein
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- As If the Sea (op. 101, no. 3) (in Four Emily Dickinson Songs, Op. 101)
- Composer:
- Arthur Farwell
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- As If the Sea Should Part
- Composer:
- Ernst Bacon
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- As Imperceptibly as grief (in Three Dickinson Songs)
- Composer:
- André Previn
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- As Summer Into Autumn Slips (in Late Summer)
- Composer:
- Tom Cipullo
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- As We Take Each Other (in A Star in a Haymow)
- Composer:
- Simon Sargon
- Text:
- Kenneth Patchen
- As the Gloaming Shadows Creep (op. 56, no. 4) (in Four Songs, Op. 56)
- Composer:
- Edward MacDowell
- Text:
- Edward MacDowell
- At Dawning
- Composer:
- Charles Wakefield Cadman
- Text:
- Nelle Richmond Eberhart
- At Even
- Composer:
- Elinor Remick Warren
- At Last, To Be Identified! (in At Last, To Be Identified)
- Composer:
- Richard Pearson Thomas
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- At Last, To Be Identified - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Richard Pearson Thomas
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- At Midnight (in A Heartland Portrait)
- Composer:
- Stephen Paulus
- Text:
- Ted Kooser
- At Parting
- Composer:
- James H. Rogers
- Text:
- Frederick Peterson
- At Rest
- Composer:
- Ethelbert Nevin
- Text:
- Frank Lebby Stanton
- At Saint Patrick's Purgatory
- Composer:
- Samuel Barber
- Text:
- Anonymous
- At Sea
- Composer:
- Charles Ives
- Text:
- Robert Underwood Johnson
- At Ship's Helm (in Whitman Songs)
- Composer:
- Michael Tilson Thomas
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- At least — to pray — is left (in Beyond Circumference)
- Composer:
- Leo Smit
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- At the Aquarium
- Composer:
- John Duke
- Text:
- Max Forrester Eastman
- At the Last Lousy Moments of Love
- Composer:
- William Bolcom
- Text:
- Arnold Weinstein
- At the River (in Old American Songs, Set 2)
- Composer:
- Aaron Copland
- Text:
- Robert Lowry
- The Auden Poems - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- Text:
- W. H. Auden
- An August Night (in A Heartland Portrait)
- Composer:
- Stephen Paulus
- Text:
- Ted Kooser
- Autumn Elegy - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Stefania de Kenessey
- Text:
- Dana Gioia
- Autumn Song (op. 56, no. 1)
- Composer:
- Amy Marcy Beach
- Autumn
- Composer:
- Miriam Gideon
- Text:
- Walter De la Mare
- Autumn
- Composer:
- Charles Ives
- Text:
- Charles Ives
- Avarice (in Seven Deadly Sins)
- Composer:
- Robert Beaser
- Text:
- Anthony Hecht
- An Awful Tempest Mashed the Air (in Six Poems by Emily Dickinson)
- Composer:
- John Duke
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- and there is so much more than could be said (in The Running Sun)
- Composer:
- Robert Helps
- Text:
- James Purdy
- as is the sea marvelous (in Viva Sweet Love)
- Composer:
- John Musto
- Text:
- E. E. Cummings
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