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Hail Columbia

Philip Phile

Joseph Hopkinson

Hairless

Simon Sargon

Samuel Hoffenstein

Song Collection: Take Five

Half-Minute Songs

Song Collection

Carrie Jacobs-Bond

Carrie Jacobs-Bond

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum!

George Crumb

Song Collection: Voices From a Forgotten World: American Songbook V

Happiness

Raymond Carver

Song Collection: Two Raymond Carver Songs

Hard Times Come Again No More

Stephen Foster

Stephen Foster

Harlem Night Song

Ricky Ian Gordon

Langston Hughes

Song Collection: Only Heaven

Harlem Night Song

Andre Myers

Langston Hughes

Harlem Sweeties

Dorothy Rudd Moore

Langston Hughes

Song Collection: Flowers of Darkness

Harmony Chant

Stephen Foster

Stephen Foster

Have You Got a Brook in Your Little Heart?

Etta Parker

Emily Dickinson

Song Collection: Three Songs

Have You Got a Brook in Your Little Heart?

John Woods Duke

Emily Dickinson

Song Collection: Four Poems by Emily Dickinson

He Came in Silvern Armor

Dorothy Rudd Moore

Gwendolyn Bennett

Song Collection: Sonnets on Love, Rosebuds and Death

He Hears The Cry Of The Sedge (op. 40, no. 3)

Lowell Liebermann

William Butler Yeats

Song Collection: A Poet to His Beloved, op. 40

He Is There!

Charles Ives

John McCrae

Song Collection: Three Songs of the War

He Never Misses

Libby Larsen

Calamity Jane

Song Collection: Songs From Letters

He Remembers Forgotten Beauty (op. 40, no. 2)

Lowell Liebermann

William Butler Yeats

Song Collection: A Poet to His Beloved, op. 40

He Thinks Of His Past Greatness When A Part Of The Constellations Of Heaven (op. 40, no. 4)

Lowell Liebermann

William Butler Yeats

Song Collection: A Poet to His Beloved, op. 40

He Tipped the Waiter

William Bolcom

Arnold Weinstein

Song Collection: Cabaret Songs, Vol. 1

He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven (op. 40, no. 6)

Lowell Liebermann

William Butler Yeats

Song Collection: A Poet to His Beloved, op. 40

He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead (op. 40, no. 5)

Lowell Liebermann

William Butler Yeats

Song Collection: A Poet to His Beloved, op. 40

He's Gone Away

Jake Heggie

Song Collection: Three Folk Songs

He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands

Margaret Bonds

Spiritual

Healing

Rosephanye Powell

Spiritual

Song Collection: Then, Here, and Now

Healing

Rosephanye Powell

Spiritual

Heart

Jean Berger

Langston Hughes

Song Collection: Four Songs

Heart on the Wall

Song Collection

Robert Owens

Langston Hughes

Heart, not so heavy as mine

Leo Smit

Emily Dickinson

Song Collection: The Celestial Thrush

Heart, We Will Forget Him

Aaron Copland

Emily Dickinson

Song Collection: Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson

Heart, We Will Forget Him

John Woods Duke

Emily Dickinson

Song Collection: Six Poems by Emily Dickinson

Heart, We Will Forget Him

Richard Hundley

Emily Dickinson

Heartbeats

John Musto

Melvin Dixon

Heaven and Earth

Song Collection

Scott Wheeler

William Blake

Heaven Spirituals

Lori Hicks

Spiritual

Heaven's River

Song Collection

David Leisner

Rabindranath Tagore

Heavenly Grass

Paul Bowles

Tennessee Williams

Song Collection: Blue Mountain Ballads

Helen

Mark Abel

Mark Abel

Song Collection: The Dream Gallery

Hell in Texas

Steven Mark Kohn

Hell's Belles

Song Collection

Libby Larsen

Help Me to Laugh

John Musto

Katherine Mosby

Song Collection: The Book of Uncommon Prayer

Her Bower is not of the Vine

Robert Helps

Herman Melville

Song Collection: Two Songs

Her Eyes, Twin Pools

Henry T. Burleigh

James Weldon Johnson

Song Collection: Passionale

Her Greatest Charm

Carrie Jacobs-Bond

Carrie Jacobs-Bond

Her Head on the Pillow

Paul Bowles

Tennessee Williams

Her Kind

David Conte

Anne Sexton

Song Collection: Sexton Songs

Here and Gone

Song Collection

Jake Heggie

A. E. Housman

Vachel Lindsay

Here, Where the Daisies Fit My Head

Jake Heggie

Emily Dickinson

Song Collection: From Emily's Garden

Hermit Songs, Op. 29

Song Collection

Samuel Barber

Anonymous

Hey Nonny No

Tom Cipullo

Robert Hayden

Song Collection: America 1968

High Tide

Jean Starr Untermeyer

Song Collection: Songs of Job's Daughter

His Beauty Sparkles

Ned Rorem

Paul Goodman

Song Collection: Evidence of Things Not Seen

His Helmet's Blaze: Almona's Song of Yussouf to Hassan

Henry T. Burleigh

Frederick G. Bowles

Song Collection: Sarcen Songs

Histrion

William Bolcom

Ezra Pound

Song Collection: Old Addresses

Hold Fast To Dreams

Florence Price

Langston Hughes

Song Collection: Five Art Songs

Hold Fast to Dreams

Dave Brubeck

Langston Hughes

Holy Innocents

Simon Sargon

Christina Rossetti

Song Collection: Bitter for Sweet

Holy the Firm

Song Collection

James Primosch

Home

Jasmine Barnes

Jasmine Barnes

Song Collection: Songs for the African Violet

Home on the Range

Daniel Kelley

Dr. Brewster Higley

Home Thoughts

Ruth Crawford Seeger

Carl Sandburg

Song Collection: Five Songs

Homecoming

David Conte

A. E. Stallings

Song Collection: Everyone Sang

Homesick Blues

H. Leslie Adams

Langston Hughes

Song Collection: The Wider View

Homeward

David Leisner

Robert Francis

Song Collection: Outdoor Shadows

Honey and Rue

Song Collection

André Previn

Toni Morrison

Hope

Robert Owens

Song Collection: Four Motivations for Baritone, op. 21

Hope is a Strange Invention

Lori Laitman

Emily Dickinson

Song Collection: One Bee and Revery

Hope is the Thing with Feathers

Otto Luening

Emily Dickinson

Song Collection: Nine Songs to Poems of Emily Dickinson

Horse Song

William Bolcom

Donald Hall

Song Collection: Three Donald Hall Songs

How Beautiful are the Feet

Julia Perry

Biblical

How Do I Love Thee?

Ned Rorem

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Song Collection: Evidence of Things Not Seen

How Do I Love Thee?

Libby Larsen

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Song Collection: Sonnets From the Portuguese

How Many Little Children Sleep

John Musto

James Agee

Song Collection: Dove Sta Amore

How My Life Has Changed

Richard Pearson Thomas

Song Collection: Race For the Sky (Voices of 9/11)

How Still the Bells

Ernst Bacon

Emily Dickinson

How the Waters Closed

Lee Hoiby

Emily Dickinson

Song Collection: Four Dickinson Songs

How to Find Success

Carrie Jacobs-Bond

Carrie Jacobs-Bond

Song Collection: Half-Minute Songs

How to Get Heat Without Fire

Song Collection

Tom Cipullo

Marilyn Kallet

How to Get Heat Without Fire

Tom Cipullo

Marilyn Kallet

Song Collection: How to Get Heat Without Fire

How To Swing Those Obbligatos Around

William Bolcom

Alice Fulton

Song Collection: I Will Breathe a Mountain

How Well I Knew the Light

Song Collection

Jake Heggie

Emily Dickinson

Hummingbird

Jake Heggie

Raymond Carver

Song Collection: Facing Forward/Looking Back

Huntsman, What Quarry?

Song Collection

Simon Sargon

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Huntsman, What Quarry?

Simon Sargon

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Song Collection: Huntsman, What Quarry?

Hymn of Trust (op. 13)

Amy Marcy Beach

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Hymn to the Night

Louis Campbell-Tipton

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hymn To The Night (op. 57, no. 1)

Lowell Liebermann

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Song Collection: Six Songs on Poems by Henry W. Longfellow, op. 57

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