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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 CollectionBen 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 CollectionSimon 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