Songs

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Janet Underneath the Roses

Ricky Ian Gordon

Ricky Ian Gordon

Song Collection: A Horse With Wings

Jazz at the Intergalactic Nightclub

Libby Larsen

Jazz-Boys

John Alden Carpenter

Langston Hughes

Song Collection: Four Negro Songs

Jean

Henry T. Burleigh

Frank Lebby Stanton

Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair

Stephen Foster

Stephen Foster

Jesus Walked this Lonesome Valley

William Levi Dawson

Spiritual

Joe Hill

Earl Robinson

Alfred Hayes

Joe Worker

Marc Blitzstein

Marc Blitzstein

John and Abigail

Song Collection

Ben Moore

Abigail Adams

John Adams

John Reed

Elie Siegmeister

Song Collection: American legends: six songs for voice and piano

John Riley

Howard Brockway

John Saw de Holy Numbah

Eva Jessye

Spiritual

Song Collection: My Spirituals

Johnny Appleseed

Elie Siegmeister

Rosemary Benét

Song Collection: American legends: six songs for voice and piano

Johnny Appleseed is Dreaming

Steve Heitzeg

Steve Heitzeg

Johnny Love Song

Scott Wheeler

Catherine Wing

Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jerico

George Crumb

Song Collection: A Journey Beyond Time: American Songbook II

Joy

Howard Swanson

Langston Hughes

Joy

Ricky Ian Gordon

Langston Hughes

Song Collection: Genius Child: A Cycle of 10 Songs

Joy

Ruth Crawford Seeger

Carl Sandburg

Song Collection: Five Songs

Joy, Shipmate, Joy!

James H. Rogers

Walt Whitman

Song Collection: In Memoriam

Joy, Shipmate, Joy!

Marc Blitzstein

Walt Whitman

Song Collection: Whitman Songs

Joy, Shipmate, Joy!

Ernst Bacon

Walt Whitman

Song Collection: Songs at Parting

Joy, Shipmate, Joy!

Lee Hoiby

Walt Whitman

Song Collection: I Was There: Five Poems of Walt Whitman

Judge Not

Beverly Benjamin Cole

Song Collection: The Words of Christ

Jump Back, Honey

William Levi Dawson

Spiritual

Jump Back!

Song Collection

Simon Sargon

Paul Laurence Dunbar

June Night

Horatio Parker

Ella Higginson

Jupiter Has Seven Moons

Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein

Song Collection: I Hate Music!: A Cycle of Five Kid Songs

Just a-Wearyin' For You

Carrie Jacobs-Bond

Frank Lebby Stanton

Just Before the Battle, Mother

George Frederick Root

George Frederick Root

Just for This! (op. 26, no. 2)

Amy Marcy Beach

Cora Randall Fabbri

Just Now

Ricky Ian Gordon

Marie Howe

Just Once

William Bolcom

Anne Sexton

Song Collection: I Will Breathe a Mountain

Just-Spring

John Woods Duke

E. E. Cummings

Justice

Adolphus C. Hailstork

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Song Collection: Songs of Love and Justice

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