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Facing Forward

Jake Heggie

Jake Heggie

Song Collection: Facing Forward/Looking Back

Facing Forward/Looking Back

Song Collection

Jake 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

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 Collection

Peter Ashbourne

Fi Mi Love Have Lion Heart

Peter Ashbourne

Song Collection: Fi Mi Love Have Lion Heart

Fidelity

Song Collection

David 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 Collection

Lowell 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 Collection

Florence Price

Langston Hughes

Mary Folwell Hoisington

Julia Johnson Davis

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Five Art Songs for Voice and Piano

Song Collection

Jeraldine Saunders Herbison

Five Black Songs

Song Collection

Mark Fax

Five Creole Songs

Song Collection

Camille Nickerson

Five Millay Songs

Song Collection

H. Leslie Adams

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Five Nocturnes

Song Collection

Juliana Hall

Robert Frost

Five Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Song Collection

Allen Brings

Five Poems of Walt Whitman

Song Collection

Ned Rorem

Walt Whitman

Five Songs

Song Collection

Ruth Crawford Seeger

Carl Sandburg

Five Songs for Soprano

Song Collection

George Frederick McKay

Walter De la Mare

Anonymous

Five Songs for Soprano & Violin

Song Collection

Hale Smith

A. E. Housman

Langston Hughes

Carl Sandburg

Five Songs from "A Shropshire Lad"

Song Collection

Bob Scher

A. E. Housman

Five Songs From William Blake

Song Collection

Virgil Thomson

William Blake

Five Songs of Laurence Hope

Song Collection

Henry T. Burleigh

Laurence Hope

Five Songs on Poems of Jean Starr Untermeyer, op. 135

Song Collection

Lowell Liebermann

Jean Starr Untermeyer

Five Songs, Op. 12

Song Collection

Ethelbert Nevin

Eugene Field

Five Songs, Op. 44

Song Collection

Henry Hadley

Anonymous

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Robert Browning

May Probyn

Clinton Scollard

Five Street Songs

Song Collection

Charles 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 Collection

John Harbison

Elizabeth Bishop

Michael Fried

William Carlos Williams

Flora

Song Collection

Paul 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 Collection

Dorothy 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 Collection

Arthur Farwell

Folksong

Edward MacDowell

William Dean Howells

Song Collection: Eight Songs, Op. 47

Fond Affection

Ernst Bacon

Anonymous

Song Collection: Quiet Airs

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 Collection

Robert Beaser

Emily Dickinson

Four Dickinson Songs

Song Collection

Lee Hoiby

Emily Dickinson

Four Dickinson Songs

Song Collection

Lori Laitman

Emily Dickinson

Four Emily Dickinson Songs, Op. 101

Song Collection

Arthur Farwell

Emily Dickinson

Four Encore Songs

Song Collection

Florence Price

Graham Lee Hemminger

Ogden Nash

Four Motivations for Baritone, op. 21

Song Collection

Robert Owens

Emily Dickinson

Four Negro Songs

Song Collection

John Alden Carpenter

Langston Hughes

Four Nocturnes, op. 23

Song Collection

Gardner Read

Four Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson

Song Collection

John Woods Duke

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Four Poems by Emily Dickinson

Song Collection

John Woods Duke

Emily Dickinson

Four Romantic Love Songs

Song Collection

Adolphus C. Hailstork

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Four Sea Lyrics

Song Collection

Louis Campbell-Tipton

Arthur Symons

Four Seasons, op. 123

Song Collection

Lowell Liebermann

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Four Songs

Song Collection

Jean Berger

Langston Hughes

Four Songs

Song Collection

Emma Lou Diemer

James Joyce

Dorothy Parker

Four Songs (André Previn)

Song Collection

André Previn

Toni Morrison

Four Songs for Christine

Song Collection

Charles Samuel Brown

Xavier de Callataÿ

Four songs, Op. 14

Song Collection

Amy Marcy Beach

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Walter Learned

Edward Rowland Sill

Four Songs, Op. 56

Song Collection

Edward MacDowell

Edward MacDowell

Four Trees — upon a solitary Acre —

Leo Smit

Emily Dickinson

Song Collection: Tinted Mountains

Four Walt Whitman Songs

Song Collection

Kurt 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 Collection

Lori 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 Collection

Jake 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 Collection

Jake 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 Collection

Dorothy 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 Collection

William 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 Collection

Charles Wakefield Cadman

Nelle Richmond Eberhart

From the Sea: Five Songs for Soprano

Song Collection

John 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

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