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Cabaret Song

Simon Sargon

James Agee

Song Collection: Patterns in Blue

Cabaret Songs, Vol. 1

Song Collection

William Bolcom

Arnold Weinstein

Cabaret Songs, Vol. 2

Song Collection

William Bolcom

Arnold Weinstein

Cabaret Songs, Vol. 3

Song Collection

William Bolcom

Arnold Weinstein

Cabaret Songs, Vol. 4

Song Collection

William Bolcom

Arnold Weinstein

Cabin

Paul Bowles

Tennessee Williams

Song Collection: Blue Mountain Ballads

Cairo Songbook

Song Collection

Thomas Jefferson Anderson

Thomas Jefferson Anderson

Calico Pie

Richard Pearson Thomas

Edward Lear

Song Collection: A Little Nonsense

California

Steven Mark Kohn

Calvary

John Woods Duke

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Song Collection: Four Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson

Calvary

Dave Ragland

Calypso

John Musto

W. H. Auden

Song Collection: The Book of Uncommon Prayer

Camptown Races

Stephen Foster

Stephen Foster

Can't Sleep

William Bolcom

Arnold Weinstein

Song Collection: Cabaret Songs, Vol. 1

Cancer

Tom Cipullo

Billy Collins

Song Collection: Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House

Candles in the Wilderness

David Conte

Philip Littell

Canon

Charles Ives

Canto I

Brett Kroening

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Caring

Charles Samuel Brown

Xavier de Callataÿ

Song Collection: Four Songs for Christine

Carmen de Boheme

Jeremy Gill

Hart Crane

Carol

Mark Abel

Mark Abel

Song Collection: The Dream Gallery

Carolina Cabin

Jean Berger

Langston Hughes

Song Collection: Four Songs

Carolina Cabin

Robert Owens

Langston Hughes

Song Collection: Silver Rain, Op. 11

Casa Guidi

Dominick Argento

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Song Collection: Casa Guidi

Casa Guidi

Song Collection

Dominick Argento

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Cataclysm

Mark Abel

Mark Abel

Song Collection: The Dark-Eyed Chameleon

Center Field Girl

Libby Larsen

Chain of Hope

Song Collection

Libby Larsen

Chance Awakenings

Song Collection

David Leisner

William Meredith

Chanting to Paradise

Song Collection

Libby Larsen

Emily Dickinson

Charlie Rutlage

Charles Ives

Chavah’s Daughters

Song Collection

James Lee III

Chère, mo lemmé toi

Camille Nickerson

Song Collection: Five Creole Songs

Chester

William Billings

William Billings

Child, Child

Richard Pearson Thomas

Sara Teasdale

Song Collection: Spring Rain

Childe Emilie

Song Collection

Leo Smit

Emily Dickinson

Chimes, Op. 54, no. 2

Margaret Ruthven Lang

Alice Meynell

Chinaman, Laundryman

Ruth Crawford Seeger

H. T. Tsiang

Song Collection: Two Ricercari

Ching-a-Ring Chaw

Aaron Copland

Song Collection: Old American Songs, Set 2

Chorale: Breathe on the Living

Kenneth Patchen

Song Collection: The Book of Uncommon Prayer

Christmas at the Cloisters

John Corigliano

William M. Hoffman

Song Collection: The Cloisters

Christmas Carol (To Jesus on His Birthday)

John Musto

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Song Collection: Quiet Songs

Christmas Lullaby

H. Leslie Adams

Franklin Pierce Adams

Chromatic Fantasy

Ned Rorem

Anthony Hecht

Church Bell at Night

Samuel Barber

Anonymous

Howard Mumford Jones

Song Collection: Hermit Songs, Op. 29

Cinder

James Primosch

Susan Stewart

Song Collection: Holy the Firm

Circe

Scott Wheeler

H. D.

Song Collection: Turning Back

Circular

Jeremy Gill

Stephen Dunn

Song Collection: Dunn Songs

Clear Water

Nadine Shanti

Climbing: Poems by African-Americans

Song Collection

Tom Cipullo

Countee Cullen

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Robert Hayden

Langston Hughes

Phillis Wheatley

Clouds

Ned Rorem

Paul Goodman

Clover

Ernst Bacon

Emily Dickinson

Coat of Many Fibers

Joyce Solomon Moorman

Come Away, Death

Richard Danielpour

William Shakespeare

Come Down Angels (Trouble the Water)

Undine Smith Moore

Come In

Ned Rorem

Robert Frost

Song Collection: Evidence of Things Not Seen

Come Lovely and Soothing Death

Simon Sargon

Walt Whitman

Song Collection: Intimations of Mortality

Come Ready and See Me

Richard Hundley

James Purdy

Come Up From the Fields, Father

Kurt Weill

Walt Whitman

Song Collection: Four Walt Whitman Songs

Come Up From the Fields, Father

William Bolcom

Walt Whitman

Song Collection: A Walt Whitman Triptych

Come up from the fields, father

Richard Danielpour

Walt Whitman

Come What Will, You are Mine To-day (op. 44, no. 5)

Henry Hadley

May Probyn

Song Collection: Five Songs, Op. 44

Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming

Stephen Foster

Stephen Foster

Come with me

David Leisner

Mary Oliver

Song Collection: West Wind

Comment on War

Ned Rorem

Langston Hughes

Song Collection: Evidence of Things Not Seen

Compensation

Betty Jackson King

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Song Collection: A Set of Three Dunbar Poems

Compensation

Simon Sargon

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Song Collection: Jump Back!

Comrades, Fill No Glass For Me

Stephen Foster

Stephen Foster

Concord Hymn

Michael Rickelton

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Song Collection: Battle Songs

Confession

Clara Kathleen Rogers

Song Collection: Songs, Op. 20

Confidence

Edward MacDowell

Edward MacDowell

Song Collection: Eight Songs, Op. 47

Confiding

Song Collection

David Leisner

Emily Brontë

Emily Dickinson

Elissa Ely

Gene Scaramellino

Confitébor/Bleach my bones

John Musto

Katherine Mosby

Song Collection: The Book of Uncommon Prayer

Constancy (op. 58, no. 1)

Edward MacDowell

Edward MacDowell

Song Collection: Three Songs, Op. 58

Continual Conversation with a Silent Man

Lee Hoiby

Wallace Stevens

Song Collection: O Florida

Conversation

Ned Rorem

Elizabeth Bishop

Conversation in Avila

Libby Larsen

Phyllis McGinley

Song Collection: Saints Without Tears

Cornerstones

Song Collection

Thomas Jefferson Anderson

Could Be

John Musto

Langston Hughes

Song Collection: Shadow of the Blues

Could I But Ride Indefinite

Robert Owens

Emily Dickinson

Song Collection: Four Motivations for Baritone, op. 21

Counting the Beats

John Woods Duke

Robert Graves

Cradle Song

Ethelbert Nevin

Cradle Song

Charles Ives

Charles Ives

Crater Light

Mark Abel

Kate Gale

Song Collection: The Palm Trees are Restless

Creole Girl

H. Leslie Adams

Leslie Morgan Collins

Song Collection: Nightsongs

Creole Girl

Dorothy Rudd Moore

Leslie Morgan Collins

Song Collection: Flowers of Darkness

Crickets

Tom Cipullo

William Heyen

Song Collection: Late Summer

Crossing the Grand Sierras

Henry Clay Work

Henry Clay Work

Crossing the Water

Song Collection

Juliana Hall

Sylvia Plath

Crowned

Jasmine Barnes

Jasmine Barnes

Song Collection: Songs for the African Violet

Crystal Palace Market

John Musto

James Laughlin

Song Collection: Viva Sweet Love

Cuatro Canciones de García Lorca

Song Collection

Paul Bowles

Federico García Lorca

Curriculum Vitae

Lori Laitman

Dana Gioia

Song Collection: Becoming a Redwood

Cycle of Songs on Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Song Collection

Zenobia Powell Perry

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Cycles of My Being

Tyshawn Sorey

Terrance Hayes

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