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Mad Book, Shadow Book
Song CollectionStephen Paulus
Michael Dennis Browne
Madam and Daughter
Elie Siegmeister
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Madam To You
Madam and the Census Man
Elie Siegmeister
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Madam To You
Madam and the Fortune Teller
Elie Siegmeister
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Madam To You
Madam and the Minister
Elie Siegmeister
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Madam To You
Madam and the Number Runner
Elie Siegmeister
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Madam To You
Madam and the Rent Man
Elie Siegmeister
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Madam To You
Madam and the Wrong Visitor
Elie Siegmeister
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Madam To You
Madam To You
Song CollectionElie Siegmeister
Langston Hughes
Madrigal
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
Robert Hillyer
maggie and milly and molly and may
John Musto
E. E. Cummings
Song Collection: Quiet Songs
Magnificat
Jonathan Bailey Holland
Maiden Snow
Richard Hundley
Kenneth Patchen
Majority
Charles Ives
Charles Ives
Making the Best of It
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Song Collection: Half-Minute Songs
Man Eating
William Bolcom
Jane Kenyon
Song Collection: Briefly It Enters
Mangez, Boulez (Eat, Drink, Be Merry)
Nadine Shanti
Song Collection: New Orleans Suite
Manners
Lee Hoiby
Elizabeth Bishop
Song Collection: Three Ages of Woman
Many red devils ran from my heart (op. 21, no. 2)
Lowell Liebermann
Stephen Crane
Song Collection: Final Songs, op. 21
Maple Leaves
Charles Ives
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
March Down to Jerdon
Eva Jessye
Spiritual
Song Collection: My Spirituals
March Moon
Hale Smith
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Beyond the Rim of Day
Marching Through Georgia
Henry Clay Work
Henry Clay Work
Margaret Songs
Song CollectionLibby Larsen
Willa Cather
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dave Ragland
Gwendolyn Brooks
Mascot and Symbol
Lori Laitman
Song Collection: Daughters
Mastery
John Woods Duke
Sara Teasdale
Song Collection: Songs Out of Sorrow: Six Songs for Mezzo
May the Maiden
John Alden Carpenter
Sidney Lanier
Maya Angelou Songs
Song CollectionB. E. Boykin
Maya Angelou
Maybe
John Musto
Carl Sandburg
Song Collection: Dove Sta Amore
Me — come! My dazzled face
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: The White Diadem
Me (Brenda Ueland)
Song CollectionLibby Larsen
Me prove it now — Whoever doubt
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: The Marigold Heart
Meditation
Frederic Sharaf
Robert Lowell
Song Collection: Three Settings from "Imitations" by Robert Lowell
Meditation on the Divine Will
Christopher Berg
Abraham Lincoln
Song Collection: Lincoln Letters
Memories
Charles Ives
Charles Ives
Memories
Charles Wakefield Cadman
Nelle Richmond Eberhart
Memories of Lincoln
William Harold Neidlinger
Walt Whitman
Men With Small Heads
Lori Laitman
Thomas Lux
Song Collection: Men With Small Heads
Men With Small Heads
Song CollectionLori Laitman
Thomas Lux
Mercy
André Previn
Toni Morrison
Song Collection: Four Songs (André Previn)
Merry Maiden Spring (op. 58, no. 3)
Edward MacDowell
Edward MacDowell
Song Collection: Three Songs, Op. 58
Merry-go-round
John Woods Duke
Mark Van Doren
Song Collection: Good Morning: Six Songs for High Voice
Mezzo Cammin (op. 57, no. 2)
Lowell Liebermann
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Song Collection: Six Songs on Poems by Henry W. Longfellow, op. 57
Micheu Banjo
Camille Nickerson
Song Collection: Five Creole Songs
Midcentury Love Letter
John Woods Duke
Phyllis McGinley
Mighty Lak' a Rose
Ethelbert Nevin
Frank Lebby Stanton
Miłosz songs: for Voice and Piano
Song CollectionJohn Harbison
Czesław Miłosz
Mindful of You (op. 123, no. 6)
Lowell Liebermann
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Song Collection: Four Seasons, op. 123
Mine Be the Lips (op. 113)
Amy Marcy Beach
Leonora Speyer
Minicabs
Song CollectionWilliam Bolcom
Arnold Weinstein
Miniver Cheevy
John Woods Duke
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Song Collection: Four Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Minstrel Man
Margaret Bonds
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Three Dream Portraits
Minstrel Man
Hermann Reutter
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: My Dark Hands
Miracle Song
William Bolcom
Arnold Weinstein
Song Collection: Cabaret Songs, Vol. 1
Mirage
Richard Pearson Thomas
Christina Rossetti
Song Collection: Twilight
Misgivings
Lowell Liebermann
Herman Melville
Song Collection: War Songs, op. 7
Miss Alma Calls
Lee Hoiby
Tennessee Williams
Song Collection: Three Women
Miss Wheatley's Garden
Song CollectionRosephanye Powell
Angelina Weld Grimké
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Mist (op. 135, no. 4)
Lowell Liebermann
Jean Starr Untermeyer
Song Collection: Five Songs on Poems of Jean Starr Untermeyer, op. 135
Mists
Charles Ives
Charles Ives
Molly, Do You Love Me?
Stephen Foster
Stephen Foster
Mona
Clara Kathleen Rogers
Alice Cary
Song Collection: Songs, Op. 20
Monet's Water Lilies
Tom Cipullo
Robert Hayden
Song Collection: America 1968
Money
Paul Salerni
Dana Gioia
Monks and Raisins (op. 18, no. 2)
Samuel Barber
José García Villa
Song Collection: Two Songs, Op. 18
Monotony
Richard Thompson
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Dream Variations
Moon, Sun, Sleep, Birds, Live
David Leisner
Kenneth Patchen
Song Collection: Fidelity
Moonlight's Watermelon
Richard Hundley
José García Villa
Song Collection: Octaves and Sweet Sounds
More is Required
Jake Heggie
Sister Helen Prejean
Song Collection: The Deepest Desire
More Nonsense Rhymes & Pictures, Op. 43
Song CollectionMargaret Ruthven Lang
Edward Lear
More Than a Day
Song CollectionNed Rorem
Jack Larson
Morning
Margaret Ruthven Lang
Harriet Fairchild Blodgett
Morning
Oley Speaks
Frank Lebby Stanton
Morning Devotion
Alva Henderson
Janet Lewis
Mornings Innocent
Gwyneth Van Anden Walker
May Swenson
Song Collection: Mornings Innocent
Mornings Innocent
Song CollectionGwyneth Van Anden Walker
May Swenson
Mortal Storm
Robert Owens
Langston Hughes
Mossbonkers
Jeremy Gill
Walt Whitman
Song Collection: Whitman Portrait
Mostly About Love
Song CollectionVirgil Thomson
Kenneth Koch
Mother Dear
Carrie Beatrice Holloway Collins
Carrie Beatrice Holloway Collins
Mother in the Mirror
Jake Heggie
Song Collection: Facing Forward/Looking Back
Mother to Son
Hall Johnson
Langston Hughes
Motherwit
Jake Heggie
Song Collection: Facing Forward/Looking Back
Mount Zion
Lori Hicks
Spiritual
Mountain Song
Allen Brings
Leonard Cochran
Mozart, 1935
Scott Wheeler
Wallace Stevens
Mr. Sandman / Birth
Erik Santos
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Dreamer: 7 Poems of Langston Hughes
Music
Simon Sargon
Amy Lowell
Song Collection: A River of Honey
Music (op. 80, no. 2)
Lowell Liebermann
Raymond Carver
Song Collection: Six Songs on Poems of Raymond Carver, op. 80
Music I Heard With You
Leonard Bernstein
Conrad Aiken
Song Collection: Songfest
Must All Then Amount To But This
Jonathan Bailey Holland
Walt Whitman
My Ántonia
Song CollectionLibby Larsen
Willa Cather
My Caliban Creature
Miriam Gideon
Norman Rosten
Song Collection: Spirit Above the Dust
My Crow Pluto
Virgil Thomson
Marianne Moore
Song Collection: Two by Marianne Moore
My Dark Hands
Song CollectionHermann Reutter
Langston Hughes
Arna Bontemps
My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free
Francis Hopkinson
Thomas Parnell
My Dearest Friend
Song CollectionPatricia Leonard
Abigail Adams
John Adams
My Dream
Florence Price
Langston Hughes
My Father's Eyes
Jake Heggie
Galway Kinnell
Song Collection: From 'The Book of Nightmares'
My Father's Name Was
Daniel Asia
Paul Pines
Song Collection: Breath in a Ram's Horn
My Garden
Margaret Ruthven Lang
Philip Bourke Marston
My Hand Forever
Lori Laitman
Song Collection: River of Horses
My Heart is like a Singing Bird
Miriam Gideon
Christina Rossetti
Song Collection: Wing'd Hour
My Heart to Thy Heart
Adolphus C. Hailstork
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Song Collection: Four Romantic Love Songs
My Lady Jacqueminot
Margaret Ruthven Lang
Julie Mathilde Lippman
My Letters!
Libby Larsen
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Song Collection: Sonnets From the Portuguese
My Life had stood — a Loaded Gun —
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: The Marigold Heart
My Little Soul’s Goin’ to Shine
Florence Price
Spiritual
My Lizard (Wish For a Young Love) (op. 41, no. 2)
Samuel Barber
Theodore Roethke
Song Collection: Despite and Still, Op. 41
My Love, When This Is Past
Khyle Wooten
Song Collection: A Journey in Love
My Master Hath a Garden
Richard Hundley
Anonymous
My Name is Barbara
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein
Song Collection: I Hate Music!: A Cycle of Five Kid Songs
My Native Land
Charles Ives
My Neighbor
Florence Price
Paul Laurence Dunbar
My Old Kentucky Home
Stephen Foster
Stephen Foster
My People
Ricky Ian Gordon
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Genius Child: A Cycle of 10 Songs
My Phoenix
Jean Starr Untermeyer
Song Collection: Songs of Job's Daughter
My River Runs to Thee
Ernst Bacon
Emily Dickinson
My Sister's Hand in Mine
Paul Bowles
Jane Bowles
My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord
Florence Price
Spiritual
My Spirituals
Song CollectionEva Jessye
Spiritual
My Star
Amy Marcy Beach
Robert Browning
My Star (op. 26, no. 1)
Amy Marcy Beach
Cora Randall Fabbri
my sweet old etcetera
Hugo Weisgall
E. E. Cummings
Song Collection: Soldier Songs
My Wife (op. 80, no. 5)
Lowell Liebermann
Raymond Carver
Song Collection: Six Songs on Poems of Raymond Carver, op. 80
My Wife Is a Most Knowing Woman
Stephen Foster
Stephen Foster
Mystery
Song CollectionLori Laitman
Sara Teasdale