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Race For the Sky (Voices of 9/11)
Song CollectionRichard Pearson Thomas
Radical Sally
William Bolcom
Arnold Weinstein
Song Collection: Cabaret Songs, Vol. 1
Rain Has Fallen (op. 10, no. 1)
Samuel Barber
James Joyce
Song Collection: Three Songs, Op. 10
Rain Song
Will Marion Cook
Alex. Rogers
Song Collection: 3 Negro Songs
Rain Song
Louise Talma
Jean Garrigue
Rainbow Songs
Song CollectionMark Abel
Mark Abel
Raspberry Island Dreaming
Song CollectionLibby Larsen
Rat Riddles
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Carl Sandburg
Song Collection: Three Songs
Reconciliation
Ned Rorem
Walt Whitman
Song Collection: Five Poems of Walt Whitman
Recuerdo
Scott Wheeler
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Song Collection: Wasting the Night
Red Iron Ore
Steven Mark Kohn
Red, Red Rose
Will Marion Cook
Alex. Rogers
Refrigerator, 1957
Lori Laitman
Thomas Lux
Song Collection: Men With Small Heads
Refuge
John Woods Duke
Sara Teasdale
Song Collection: Songs Out of Sorrow: Six Songs for Mezzo
Religion
Charles Ives
Remember the River
Alva Henderson
Janet Lewis
Remembrance (A Sound of a Distant Horn)
Charles Ives
Charles Ives
Renouncement
John Woods Duke
Alice Meynell
Requiem
Jonathan Bailey Holland
Robert Louis Stevenson
Requiem
James H. Rogers
Robert Louis Stevenson
Song Collection: In Memoriam
Requies
Louis Campbell-Tipton
Arthur Symons
Song Collection: Four Sea Lyrics
Resignation
Florence Price
Florence Price
Resolution
Charles Ives
Charles Ives
Response
George Walker
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Rest
David Conte
Christina Rossetti
Song Collection: Three Poems of Christina Rossetti
Reveille
John Woods Duke
A. E. Housman
Rhapsodie (op. 32, no. 1)
Louis Campbell-Tipton
Walt Whitman
Rhapsody
Clara Kathleen Rogers
James Berry Bensel
Song Collection: Songs, Op. 20
Richard Cory
John Woods Duke
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Song Collection: Four Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Richard Cory
Charles Naginski
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Riding the Elevator into the Sky
David Conte
Anne Sexton
Song Collection: Sexton Songs
Riding to Town
Thomas H. Kerr
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Ring, Ring the Banjo
Stephen Foster
Stephen Foster
Ringing the Bells
David Conte
Anne Sexton
Song Collection: Sexton Songs
Rio Grande
Celius Dougherty
Rise and Fall
Song CollectionJake Heggie
Gene Scheer
Rise Mourner
Florence Price
Spiritual
River Chanty
Kurt Weill
Maxwell Anderson
River Night
Gardner Read
Frances Frost
Song Collection: Three Songs for Mezzo-Soprano, op. 68
River of Horses
Song CollectionLori Laitman
James Dickey
Robert Browning
Dominick Argento
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Song Collection: Casa Guidi
Rome: In the Café
John Musto
James Laughlin
Song Collection: Viva Sweet Love
Rosalie, the Prairie Flower
George Frederick Root
Frances Jane Crosby
Rose
Jeremy Gill
Ann Patchett
Roses of Picardy
Round About De Mountain
Lori Hicks
Spiritual
Row for your life
David Leisner
Mary Oliver
Song Collection: West Wind
Rowing
David Conte
Anne Sexton
Song Collection: Sexton Songs
Ruminations
Song CollectionMartin Hennessy