INDEX OF SONG TITLES
(entered to date)
C
- Cabaret Song (in Patterns in Blue)
- Composer:
- Simon Sargon
- Text:
- James Agee
- Cabaret Songs - Song Collection
- Composer:
- William Bolcom
- Text:
- Arnold Weinstein
- Cabin (in Blue Mountain Ballads)
- Composer:
- Paul Bowles
- Text:
- Tennessee Williams
- The Cage
- Composer:
- Charles Ives
- Text:
- Charles Ives
- Calico Pie (in A Little Nonsense)
- Composer:
- Richard Pearson Thomas
- Text:
- Edward Lear
- California
- Composer:
- Steven Mark Kohn
- Text:
- Traditional
- Calypso
- Composer:
- John Musto
- Text:
- W. H. Auden
- The Camp Meeting
- Composer:
- Charles Ives
- Camptown Races
- Composer:
- Stephen Foster
- Text:
- Stephen Foster
- Can't Sleep
- Composer:
- William Bolcom
- Text:
- Arnold Weinstein
- Cancer (in Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun...)
- Composer:
- Tom Cipullo
- Text:
- Billy Collins
- The Candid Man
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- Text:
- Stephen Crane
- Candles in the Wilderness
- Composer:
- David Conte
- Text:
- Philip Littell
- The Candy Lion (op. 75, no. 1)
- Composer:
- Amy Marcy Beach
- Text:
- Abbie Farwell Brown
- Canon
- Composer:
- Charles Ives
- Canto I
- Composer:
- Brett Kroening
- O Captain! My Captain! (in I Was There: Five Poems of Walt Whitman)
- Composer:
- Lee Hoiby
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- The Carcajou and the Kincajou (in A Musical Nashery)
- Composer:
- Frank Lewin
- Text:
- Ogden Nash
- The Cardinal Flower (in A Flower Cycle)
- Composer:
- George Whitefield Chadwick
- Text:
- Arlo Bates
- Carolina Cabin (in Four Songs)
- Composer:
- Jean Berger
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- The Celestial Thrush - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Leo Smit
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- Center Field Girl
- Composer:
- Libby Larsen
- A Certain Slant of Light
- Composer:
- Joseph Turrin
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- Chain of Hope - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Libby Larsen
- Chance Awakenings - Song Collection
- Composer:
- David Leisner
- Text:
- William Meredith
- Chanting to Paradise - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Libby Larsen
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- The Chariot (in Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson)
- Composer:
- Aaron Copland
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- Charlie Rutlage
- Composer:
- Charles Ives
- Text:
- Traditional
- Chester
- Composer:
- William Billings
- Text:
- William Billings
- A Child Asleep in Its Own Life (in Last Poems of Wallace Stevens)
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- Text:
- Wallace Stevens
- The Child's faith is new — (in Childe Emilie)
- Composer:
- Leo Smit
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- Child, Child (in Spring Rain)
- Composer:
- Richard Pearson Thomas
- Text:
- Sara Teasdale
- Childe Emilie - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Leo Smit
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- The Children's Hour
- Composer:
- Charles Ives
- Chimes, Op. 54, no. 2
- Composer:
- Margaret Ruthven Lang
- Text:
- Alice Meynell
- Chinaman, Laundryman (in Two Ricercari)
- Composer:
- Ruth Crawford Seeger
- Text:
- H. T. Tsiang
- Ching-a-Ring Chaw (in Old American Songs, Set 2)
- Composer:
- Aaron Copland
- Text:
- Traditional
- Chorale: Breathe on the Living
- Composer:
- John Musto
- Text:
- Kenneth Patchen
- Christmas Carol (To Jesus on His Birthday)
- Composer:
- John Musto
- Text:
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- A Christmas Carol
- Composer:
- Charles Ives
- Text:
- Charles Ives
- Christmas at the Cloisters (in The Cloisters)
- Composer:
- John Corigliano
- Text:
- William M. Hoffman
- Chromatic Fantasy
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- Text:
- Anthony Hecht
- Church Bell at Night
- Composer:
- Samuel Barber
- Text:
- Howard Mumford Jones
- Cinder
- Composer:
- James Primosch
- Text:
- Susan Stewart
- Circus Band (in Five Street Songs)
- Composer:
- Charles Ives
- Text:
- Charles Ives
- A Clear Day and No Memories (in Last Poems of Wallace Stevens)
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- Text:
- Wallace Stevens
- A Clear Midnight (in Six Songs)
- Composer:
- Ernst Bacon
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- A Clear Midnight (in A Clear Midnight)
- Composer:
- Simon Sargon
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- A Clear Midnight
- Composer:
- Tom Cipullo
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- A Clear Midnight - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Simon Sargon
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- A Clear Midnight - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Jonathan Clarke Schwabe
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- A Clear Midnight (in I Was There: Five Poems of Walt Whitman)
- Composer:
- Lee Hoiby
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- A Clear Midnight
- Composer:
- Philip Dalmas
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- The Clearing (in Briefly It Enters)
- Composer:
- William Bolcom
- Text:
- Jane Kenyon
- Climbing: Poems by African-Americans - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Tom Cipullo
- The Cloisters - Song Collection
- Composer:
- John Corigliano
- Text:
- William M. Hoffman
- Clouds
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- Text:
- Paul Goodman
- Clover
- Composer:
- Ernst Bacon
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- The Collection
- Composer:
- Charles Ives
- Text:
- Charles Ives
- The Columbine (in A Flower Cycle)
- Composer:
- George Whitefield Chadwick
- Text:
- Arlo Bates
- Come Away, Death
- Composer:
- Richard Danielpour
- Text:
- William Shakespeare
- Come In
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- Text:
- Robert Frost
- Come Lovely and Soothing Death
- Composer:
- Simon Sargon
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- Come Up From the Fields, Father (in A Walt Whitman Triptych)
- Composer:
- William Bolcom
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- Come Up From the Fields, Father (in Four Walt Whitman Songs)
- Composer:
- Kurt Weill
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- Come What Will, You are Mine To-day" (op. 44, no. 5) (in Five Songs, Op. 44)
- Composer:
- Henry Hadley
- Text:
- May Probyn
- Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming
- Composer:
- Stephen Foster
- Text:
- Stephen Foster
- Come with me (in West Wind)
- Composer:
- David Leisner
- Text:
- Mary Oliver
- The Comfort of Friends
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- Text:
- William Penn
- Comment on War
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- The Commonplace
- Composer:
- Ernst Bacon
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- Compensation (in Jump Back!)
- Composer:
- Simon Sargon
- Text:
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Comrades, Fill No Glass For Me
- Composer:
- Stephen Foster
- Text:
- Stephen Foster
- Concord Hymn (in Battle Songs)
- Composer:
- Michael Rickelton
- Text:
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Confession (in Songs, Op. 20)
- Composer:
- Clara Kathleen Rogers
- Text:
- Anonymous
- Confidence
- Composer:
- Edward MacDowell
- Text:
- Edward MacDowell
- Confiding - Song Collection
- Composer:
- David Leisner
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- Confitébor/Bleach my bones
- Composer:
- John Musto
- Text:
- Katherine Mosby
- Constancy (op. 58, no. 1) (in Three Songs, Op. 58)
- Composer:
- Edward MacDowell
- Text:
- Edward MacDowell
- Continual Conversation with a Silent Man (in O Florida)
- Composer:
- Lee Hoiby
- Text:
- Wallace Stevens
- Conversation in Avila (in Saints Without Tears)
- Composer:
- Libby Larsen
- Text:
- Phyllis McGinley
- Conversation
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- Text:
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Could Be (in Shadow of the Blues)
- Composer:
- John Musto
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- The Counter (in Burning)
- Composer:
- Dorothy Chang
- Text:
- William Carlos Williams
- Counting the Beats
- Composer:
- John Duke
- Text:
- Robert Graves
- The Country Wife
- Composer:
- Alva Henderson
- Text:
- Dana Gioia
- The Courtship of the Yongly Bongly Bo
- Composer:
- Virgil Thomson
- Text:
- Edward Lear
- The Cow in Apple Time (in Bad Pets)
- Composer:
- Paul Salerni
- Text:
- Robert Frost
- Cradle Song
- Composer:
- Ethelbert Nevin
- Text:
- Traditional
- Cradle Song
- Composer:
- Charles Ives
- A Cradle Song
- Composer:
- John Alden Carpenter
- Text:
- William Blake
- The Crazy Woman (in I Will Breathe a Mountain)
- Composer:
- William Bolcom
- Text:
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Creole Girl (in Nightsongs)
- Composer:
- H. Leslie Adams
- Text:
- Leslie Morgan Collins
- Crickets (in Late Summer)
- Composer:
- Tom Cipullo
- Text:
- William Heyen
- The Crocus (in A Flower Cycle)
- Composer:
- George Whitefield Chadwick
- Text:
- Arlo Bates
- Crossing the Grand Sierras
- Composer:
- Henry Clay Work
- Text:
- Henry Clay Work
- Crossing the Water - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Juliana Hall
- Text:
- Sylvia Plath
- The Crucifixion
- Composer:
- Samuel Barber
- Text:
- Howard Mumford Jones
- The Cryin' Blues
- Composer:
- John Alden Carpenter
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- The Crying of Water (in Four Sea Lyrics)
- Composer:
- Louis Campbell-Tipton
- Text:
- Arthur Symons
- Crystal Palace Market (in Viva Sweet Love)
- Composer:
- John Musto
- Text:
- James Laughlin
- Curriculum Vitae (in Becoming a Redwood)
- Composer:
- Lori Laitman
- Text:
- Dana Gioia
- A Curse on Geographers (in Autumn Elegy)
- Composer:
- Stefania de Kenessey
- Text:
- Dana Gioia
- The Cyclamen (in A Flower Cycle)
- Composer:
- George Whitefield Chadwick
- Text:
- Arlo Bates
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