INDEX OF SONG TITLES
(entered to date)
N
- Nancy Hanks
- Composer:
- Katherine Kennicott Davis
- Text:
- Rosemary Benét
- The Nantucket Songs - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- Nantucket
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- Text:
- William Carlos Williams
- Natural Question (in Flora)
- Composer:
- Paul Salerni
- Text:
- John Updike
- The Natural World - Song Collection
- Composer:
- John Harbison
- Nature's Way
- Composer:
- Charles Ives
- Text:
- Charles Ives
- Nature, the Gentlest Mother
- Composer:
- Ernst Bacon
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- Nature, the Gentlest Mother (in Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson)
- Composer:
- Aaron Copland
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- A Negro Love Song (Jump Back) (in Jump Back!)
- Composer:
- Simon Sargon
- Text:
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- The Negro Speaks of Rivers
- Composer:
- Howard Swanson
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- The Negro Speaks of Rivers
- Composer:
- Margaret Bonds
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- Nelly Bly
- Composer:
- Stephen Foster
- Text:
- Stephen Foster
- Nelly was a Lady
- Composer:
- Stephen Foster
- Text:
- Stephen Foster
- Never Again the Same (in Three James Tate Songs)
- Composer:
- David Leisner
- Text:
- James Tate
- Never More Will The Wind (in I Will Breathe a Mountain)
- Composer:
- William Bolcom
- Text:
- H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
- Never Pain to Tell Thy Love (in Echo's Songs)
- Composer:
- Daron Aric Hagen
- Text:
- William Blake
- New Feet Within My Garden Go (in Four Poems by Emily Dickinson)
- Composer:
- John Duke
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- The New River
- Composer:
- Charles Ives
- Text:
- Charles Ives
- A Night Battle (in War Scenes)
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- Night Coming Out of a Garden
- Composer:
- John Duke
- Night Dances - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Juliana Hall
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- Night Practice (in I Will Breathe a Mountain)
- Composer:
- William Bolcom
- Text:
- May Swenson
- The Night Sea (op. 10, no. 2)
- Composer:
- Amy Marcy Beach
- Night Song (in Nightsongs)
- Composer:
- H. Leslie Adams
- Text:
- Clarissa Scott Delany
- A Night Song
- Composer:
- Charles Ives
- Text:
- Charles Ives
- Night Songs: Four Poems of A. Crapsey - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Lee Hoiby
- Text:
- Adelaide Crapsey
- A Night Thought
- Composer:
- Charles Ives
- The Night Wind
- Composer:
- Roland Farley
- Text:
- Eugene Field
- Night Without Sleep
- Composer:
- Paul Bowles
- Text:
- Charles Henri Ford
- Night birds (in West Wind)
- Composer:
- David Leisner
- Text:
- Mary Oliver
- Night (in Three Early Songs)
- Composer:
- George Crumb
- Text:
- Robert Southey
- Night
- Composer:
- Florence Price
- Text:
- Louise C. Wallace
- Night (in Night Songs: Four Poems of A. Crapsey)
- Composer:
- Lee Hoiby
- Text:
- Adelaide Crapsey
- No. 9. Night (in Innocence and Experience)
- Composer:
- Frank Lewin
- Text:
- William Blake
- Night: Four Songs
- Composer:
- Ricky Ian Gordon
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- Nightfall (in Mystery)
- Composer:
- Lori Laitman
- Text:
- Sara Teasdale
- Nightingale's Song
- Composer:
- Ethelbert Nevin
- Text:
- Alvin Hovey-King
- The Nightingale
- Composer:
- Clifford Shaw
- Text:
- Traditional
- Nightsongs - Song Collection
- Composer:
- H. Leslie Adams
- Nine Songs to Poems of Emily Dickinson - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Otto Luening
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- No Dew Upon the Grass (in Six Songs)
- Composer:
- Ernst Bacon
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- No Voice to Scold (in Eight Epitaphs)
- Composer:
- Theodore Chanler
- Text:
- Walter De la Mare
- Nobody Knows This Little Rose (in Six Poems by Emily Dickinson)
- Composer:
- John Duke
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- Nocturne (op. 13, no. 4)
- Composer:
- Samuel Barber
- Text:
- Frederic Prokosch
- Nocturne (in A Clear Midnight)
- Composer:
- Simon Sargon
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures, Op. 42 - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Margaret Ruthven Lang
- Text:
- Edward Lear
- North and South - Song Collection
- Composer:
- John Harbison
- Text:
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself (in Last Poems of Wallace Stevens)
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- Text:
- Wallace Stevens
- Not In a Silver Casket (in Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia)
- Composer:
- Jake Heggie
- Text:
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Nothin' But Love
- Composer:
- Carrie Jacobs-Bond
- Text:
- George N. Alsop
- Nothing Gold (in A Seasonal Songbook)
- Composer:
- Alva Henderson
- Text:
- Robert Frost
- Nov. 2. 1920
- Composer:
- Charles Ives
- Text:
- Charles Ives
- Now and Then (in Half-Minute Songs)
- Composer:
- Carrie Jacobs-Bond
- Text:
- Carrie Jacobs-Bond
- Now is the Dreadful Midnight
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- Text:
- Paul Goodman
- Nude at the Piano
- Composer:
- John Musto
- Text:
- Mark Campbell
- Nuvoletta (op. 25)
- Composer:
- Samuel Barber
- Text:
- James Joyce
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