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Fable
John Harbison
Louise Glück
Song Collection: The Seven Ages
Facing Forward
Jake Heggie
Jake Heggie
Song Collection: Facing Forward/Looking Back
Facing Forward/Looking Back
Song CollectionJake Heggie
Raymond Carver
Jake Heggie
Faint as Leaf Shadow
Paul Bowles
Tennessee Williams
Song Collection: Gothic Suite
Fair Springtide
Edward MacDowell
Edward MacDowell
Song Collection: Three Songs, Op. 60
Fais do do
Camille Nickerson
Song Collection: Five Creole Songs
Faith
Ned Rorem
Mark Doty
Song Collection: Evidence of Things Not Seen
Faith
David Leisner
Emily Brontë
Song Collection: Confiding
Faithful One
Robert Owens
Langston Hughes
Fame
Jake Heggie
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Newer Every Day: Songs for Kiri
Fan for a Floating Woman
Jonathan Bailey Holland
Sandra Cisneros
Fantasy in Purple
Florence Price
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Five Art Songs
Far in a Western Brookland
Libby Larsen
A. E. Housman
Far Off I Hear a Lover's Flute
Charles Wakefield Cadman
Nelle Richmond Eberhart
Song Collection: From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water
Farewell Symphony (op. 21, no. 5)
Lowell Liebermann
Randall Jarrell
Song Collection: Final Songs, op. 21
Farther From the Heart
Paul Bowles
Paul Bowles
Feast
Margaret Bonds
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Song Collection: Four Songs
February: Thinking of Flowers
William Bolcom
Jane Kenyon
Song Collection: Briefly It Enters
Feet o' Jesus
Florence Price
Langston Hughes
Feldeinsamkeit
Charles Ives
Few Yet Enough
Otto Luening
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Nine Songs to Poems of Emily Dickinson
Fewer Words
Ricky Ian Gordon
Ricky Ian Gordon
Song Collection: A Horse With Wings
Fi Mi Love Have Lion Heart
Song CollectionPeter Ashbourne
Fi Mi Love Have Lion Heart
Peter Ashbourne
Song Collection: Fi Mi Love Have Lion Heart
Fidelity
Song CollectionDavid Leisner
Wendell Berry
William Meredith
Kenneth Patchen
Leslie Marmon Silko
May Swenson
Walt Whitman
Filling Station
Lee Hoiby
Elizabeth Bishop
Song Collection: Three Ages of Woman
Final Curve / Search
Dave Brubeck
Langston Hughes
Final Songs, op. 21
Song CollectionLowell Liebermann
Stephen Crane
Rabindranath Tagore
Robert Graves
Randall Jarrell
Fine, Clear, Dazzling Morning
Jeremy Gill
Walt Whitman
Song Collection: Whitman Portrait
First Ask Yourself
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Song Collection: Half-Minute Songs
First Meditation
William Bolcom
Theodore Roethke
Song Collection: Open House
Five Art Songs
Song CollectionFlorence Price
Langston Hughes
Mary Folwell Hoisington
Julia Johnson Davis
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Five Art Songs for Voice and Piano
Song CollectionJeraldine Saunders Herbison
Five Black Songs
Song CollectionMark Fax
Five Creek-Freedman Spirituals
Song CollectionMargaret Bonds
Spiritual
Five Creole Songs
Song CollectionCamille Nickerson
Five Gambling Songs
Song CollectionJohn Jacob Niles
John Jacob Niles
Five Millay Songs
Song CollectionH. Leslie Adams
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Five Nocturnes
Song CollectionJuliana Hall
Robert Frost
Five Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Song CollectionAllen Brings
Five Poems of Walt Whitman
Song CollectionNed Rorem
Walt Whitman
Five Songs
Song CollectionRuth Crawford Seeger
Carl Sandburg
Five Songs for Soprano
Song CollectionGeorge Frederick McKay
Walter De la Mare
Anonymous
Five Songs for Soprano & Violin
Song CollectionHale Smith
A. E. Housman
Langston Hughes
Carl Sandburg
Five Songs from "A Shropshire Lad"
Song CollectionBob Scher
A. E. Housman
Five Songs From William Blake
Song CollectionVirgil Thomson
William Blake
Five Songs of Laurence Hope
Song CollectionHenry T. Burleigh
Laurence Hope
Five Songs on Poems of Jean Starr Untermeyer, op. 135
Song CollectionLowell Liebermann
Jean Starr Untermeyer
Five Songs, Op. 12
Song CollectionEthelbert Nevin
Eugene Field
Five Songs, Op. 44
Song CollectionHenry Hadley
Anonymous
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning
May Probyn
Clinton Scollard
Five Street Songs
Song CollectionCharles Ives
Charles Ives
Flames
Tom Cipullo
Billy Collins
Song Collection: Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House
Flashes and Illuminations
Song CollectionJohn Harbison
Elizabeth Bishop
Michael Fried
William Carlos Williams
Flora
Song CollectionPaul Salerni
John Updike
Floral Decorations for Bananas
Lee Hoiby
Wallace Stevens
Song Collection: O Florida
Florida Night
Simon Sargon
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Song Collection: Jump Back!
Flowers
Jasmine Barnes
Song Collection: Songs for the African Violet
Flowers
Jasmine Barnes
Jasmine Barnes
Song Collection: Songs for the African Violet
Flowers
Beverly Benjamin Cole
Elizabeth Oakes Smith
Song Collection: The Flowers
Flowers of Darkness
Dorothy Rudd Moore
Frank Marshall Davis
Song Collection: Flowers of Darkness
Flowers of Darkness
Song CollectionDorothy Rudd Moore
Frank Marshall Davis
Leslie Morgan Collins
Langston Hughes
Binga Dismond
James Weldon Johnson
Robert Hayden
Flying at Night
Stephen Paulus
Ted Kooser
Song Collection: A Heartland Portrait
Fog
Roy Harris
Carl Sandburg
Folk Songs of the West and South, Op. 19
Song CollectionArthur Farwell
Folksong
Edward MacDowell
William Dean Howells
Song Collection: Eight Songs, Op. 47
Fond Affection
Ernst Bacon
Anonymous
Song Collection: Quiet Airs
For a Poet
Dorothy Rudd Moore
Countee Cullen
Song Collection: From the Dark Tower
For a Poet
Jacqueline Hairston
Countee Cullen
Song Collection: Cullen’s Trilogy
For Everything That Lives is Holy
Curtis Bryant
William Blake
For I Have Come So Long
John Musto
Katherine Mosby
Song Collection: The Book of Uncommon Prayer
For Me the Jasmine Buds Unfold (op. 19, no. 1)
Amy Marcy Beach
Florence Earle Coates
For Poulenc
Ned Rorem
Frank O’Hara
For Sweet Love's Sake
Edward MacDowell
William Henry Gardner
Song Collection: Six Love Songs, Op. 40
For You There is No Song
H. Leslie Adams
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Song Collection: Five Millay Songs
For You With Love
Elinor Remick Warren
Louis Untermeyer
For Your Delight
Richard Hundley
Robert Louis Stevenson
Forever
Florence Price
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Forever is Composed of Nows
Sally Lamb McCune
Emily Dickinson
Forever Thine
William Levi Dawson
Forget-Me-Not (op. 35, no. 4)
Amy Marcy Beach
Henry Harris Aubrey Beach
Forget-Me-Nots (op. 135, no. 5)
Lowell Liebermann
Jean Starr Untermeyer
Song Collection: Five Songs on Poems of Jean Starr Untermeyer, op. 135
Forgotten (op. 41, no. 3)
Amy Marcy Beach
Cora Randall Fabbri
Song Collection: Three songs, Op. 41
Fort Tryon Park: September
John Corigliano
William M. Hoffman
Song Collection: The Cloisters
Four Dickinson Songs
Song CollectionRobert Beaser
Emily Dickinson
Four Dickinson Songs
Song CollectionLee Hoiby
Emily Dickinson
Four Dickinson Songs
Song CollectionLori Laitman
Emily Dickinson
Four Emily Dickinson Songs, Op. 101
Song CollectionArthur Farwell
Emily Dickinson
Four Encore Songs
Song CollectionFlorence Price
Graham Lee Hemminger
Ogden Nash
Four Motivations for Baritone, op. 21
Song CollectionRobert Owens
Emily Dickinson
Four Negro Songs
Song CollectionJohn Alden Carpenter
Langston Hughes
Four Nocturnes, op. 23
Song CollectionGardner Read
Four Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Song CollectionJohn Woods Duke
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Four Poems by Emily Dickinson
Song CollectionJohn Woods Duke
Emily Dickinson
Four Romantic Love Songs
Song CollectionAdolphus C. Hailstork
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Four Sea Lyrics
Song CollectionLouis Campbell-Tipton
Arthur Symons
Four Seasons, op. 123
Song CollectionLowell Liebermann
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Four Songs
Song CollectionJean Berger
Langston Hughes
Four Songs
Song CollectionEmma Lou Diemer
James Joyce
Dorothy Parker
Four Songs
Song CollectionMargaret Bonds
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Four Songs (André Previn)
Song CollectionAndré Previn
Toni Morrison
Four Songs for Christine
Song CollectionCharles Samuel Brown
Xavier de Callataÿ
Four songs, Op. 14
Song CollectionAmy Marcy Beach
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Walter Learned
Edward Rowland Sill
Four Songs, Op. 56
Song CollectionEdward MacDowell
Edward MacDowell
Four Trees — upon a solitary Acre —
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Tinted Mountains
Four Walt Whitman Songs
Song CollectionKurt Weill
Walt Whitman
Fourth of July Speech
Dorothy Rudd Moore
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
Tom Cipullo
Robert Hayden
Song Collection: America 1968
Free America
Joseph Warren
Free at Last
Julia Perry
Spiritual
Fresh Patterns
Song CollectionLori Laitman
Emily Dickinson
Fresh Patterns
Lori Laitman
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Fresh Patterns
Friend, your white beard sweeps the ground (op. 11, no. 2)
Lowell Liebermann
Stephen Crane
Song Collection: Three Poems of Stephen Crane, op. 11
From 'The Book of Nightmares'
Song CollectionJake Heggie
Galway Kinnell
From "Lincoln, the Great Commoner"
Charles Ives
Edwin Markham
From "Paracelsus"
Charles Ives
Robert Browning
From "Sneden's Landing Variations"
Virgil Thomson
Frank O’Hara
From "The Rain"
Ned Rorem
Donald Windham
Song Collection: Poems of Love and Rain
From "The Swimmers"
Charles Ives
Louis Untermeyer
From an Island
David Leisner
James Tate
Song Collection: Three James Tate Songs
From Blank To Blank
Ernst Bacon
Emily Dickinson
From Calamus
Christopher Berg
Walt Whitman
From Emily's Garden
Song CollectionJake Heggie
Emily Dickinson
From Far, From Eve and Morning
Marc Blitzstein
A. E. Housman
From Far, From Eve And Morning
Beverly Benjamin Cole
A. E. Housman
Song Collection: A Shropshire Lad
From the Dark Tower
Song CollectionDorothy Rudd Moore
James Weldon Johnson
Arna Bontemps
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Langston Hughes
Countee Cullen
From the Dark Tower
Dorothy Rudd Moore
Countee Cullen
Song Collection: From the Dark Tower
From the Dark Tower
Robert Owens
Countee Cullen
Song Collection: Three Countee Cullen Songs, Op. 27
From the Hearts of Women
Song CollectionWilliam Grant Still
Verna Arvey
From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water
Charles Wakefield Cadman
Nelle Richmond Eberhart
Song Collection: From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water
From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water
Song CollectionCharles Wakefield Cadman
Nelle Richmond Eberhart
From the Sea: Five Songs for Soprano
Song CollectionJohn Woods Duke
Sara Teasdale
From Whence Cometh Song
Ned Rorem
Theodore Roethke
Song Collection: Evidence of Things Not Seen
Fulfillment
Robert Owens
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Silver Rain, Op. 11
Full Moon
Dorothy Chang
William Carlos Williams
Song Collection: Burning
Full Moon
Lori Laitman
William Carlos Williams
Song Collection: Two Songs for Tenor
Full Sail
Mark Abel
Mark Abel
Song Collection: The Dark-Eyed Chameleon
Fur (Murray the Furrier)
William Bolcom
Arnold Weinstein
Song Collection: Cabaret Songs, Vol. 1
Fury
Donald Wheelock
Susan Snively