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The Negro Speaks of Rivers
by Langston Hughes
I’ve known rivers:
I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln
went down to New Orleans, and I’ve seen its muddy
bosom turn all golden in the sunset.
I’ve known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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5. Time is a Drifting River: A Psalm for Daybreak and Morning
6. "Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?"
7. "One More River to Cross (Noah's Ark: A Humoresque)"
8. "Nearer, My God to Thee"
9. "Deep River"
Three Early Songs
Composer(s): George Crumb
Song(s): 1. Night
2. Let It Be Forgotten
3. Wind Elegy
Portraits
Composer(s): Richard Danielpour
Song(s): 1. The Chinese bride (18th century)
2. The War Widow (American Civil War)
3. The Plains Woman (Native American woman, mid 19th century)
4. Afro-American woman (20th century)
Voice Type: Mezzo-Soprano
Buy via Music Sales ClassicalVoices From a Forgotten World
Composer(s): George Crumb
Song(s): 1. "Bringing in the Sheaves" (after G. Minor)
2. "Somebody Got Lost in a Storm"
3. "House of the Rising Sun"
4. "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum!"
5. "I Wonder as I Wander" (after John Jacob Niles)
6. "Song of the Thunder" (Navajo)
7. "'Tis the Gift to be Simple"
8. "Beautiful Dreamer" (after Stephen Foster)
9. "Firefly Song" (Ojibwa)
10. "The Demon Lover: A Ghostly Ballad"
The Winds of Destiny
Composer(s): George Crumb
Song(s): 1. "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory"
2. "When Johnny Comes Marching Home"
3. "Lonesome Road"
4. "Twelve Gates to the City"
5. De Profundis: A Psalm for the Night-Wanderer (Instrumental Interlude)
6. "All My Trials (Death's Lullaby)"
7. "Go Tell it on the Mountain!"
8. "The Enchanted Valley"
9. "Shenandoah"
A Woman's Life
Composer(s): Richard Danielpour
Song(s): I. Little Girl Speakings
II. Life Doesn't Frighten Me
III. They Went Home
iV. Come and Be My Baby
V. Let's Majeste
VI. My Life Has Turned to Blue
VII. Many and More
Voice Type: Soprano
Buy via Music Sales ClassicalEight Songs of Translations of Latin and Greek Poets (WorldCat)
Composer(s): John Duke
Find at your local libraryEight Songs of Translations of Latin and Greek Poets
Composer(s): John Duke
Buy via Recital PublicationsSongs By John Duke, Vol. 1
Composer(s): John Duke
Song(s): 1. When the Rose Is Brightest (Nathaniel Parker Willis)
2. Stopping by Woods on а Snowy Evening (Robert Frost)
3. The Puritan's Ballad (Elinor Wylie)
4. Midcentury Love Letter (Phyllis McGinley)
5. All Beauty Calls You to Me (Sara Teasdale)
6. Listen, I Love You (Sara Teasdale)
7. I am so weak а Thing (Sara Teasdale)
8. All Things in the World Can Rest, But I (Sara Teasdale)
9. Oh, My Love (Sara Teasdale)
10. Renouncement (Alice Meynell)
11. Noonday (Traditional Chinese)
12. Through Your Window (Traditional Chinese)
13. The Shoreless Sea (Traditional Chinese)
14. New Feet within My Garden Go (Emily Dickinson)
15. The Rose did Caper on Her Cheek (Emily Dickinson)
16. Have You Got а Brook in Your Little Heart? (Emily Dickinson)
17. I Taste а Liquor Never Brewed (Emily Dickinson)
18. The Better Part (George Santayana)
Voice Type: High
Buy via Keiser / Southern MusicSongs by John Duke, Vol. 3
Composer(s): John Duke
Song(s): 1. Bredon Hill (А.Е. Housman)
2. Reality (Dorothy Duke)
3. Penguin Geometry (Donald Wheelock)
4. Good Morning (Mark Van Doren)
5. Walking in the Rain (Mark Van Doren)
6. Those Great Clouds There (Mark Van Doren)
7. Water that Falls and Runs Away (Mark Van Doren)
8. Listen to Us, the Leaves Say (Mark Van Doren)
9. Merry-go-round (Mark Van Doren)
10. Stillness (Karen Duke)
11. Lovely (Mary L. Fortson)
12. The Sheaves (E.A. Robinson)
13. А Winter Night (Sara Teasdale)
14. The Return from Town (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
15. When, in Disgrace with Fortune (William Shakespeare)
16. Politics (W.B. Yeats)
17. Old Ben Golliday (Mark Van Doren)
18. Tiger! Tiger! (William Blake)
19. She's Somewhere in the Sunlight Strong (Richard LeGallienne)
20. I Lost My Heart (A.E. Housman)
21. The Wind Has Changed (Mark Van Doren)
Voice Type: Mixed Voice, High/Medium
Buy via Keiser / Southern Music28 Songs by American and British Composers
Composer(s): John Duke
Song(s): Barber: Must the Winter Come so Soon?
Bernstein: Two Love Songs (Extinguish My Eyes, When My Soul Touches Yours)
Bowles: Heavenly Grass
Carpenter: When I Bring to You Colour'd Toys
Corigliano: Christmas at the Cloisters, The Unicorn
Dougherty: Sound the Flute!
Duke: Peggy Mitchell
Hoiby: An Immorality
Moore: The Dove Song (The Wings of the Dove)
Sargent: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Thomson: English Usage, The Tiger
Vaughan Williams: Hugh's Song of the Road
Wells: Everyone Sang
Tell Me Oh Blue, Blue Sky!
Composer(s): Vittorio Giannini
Song(s): Tell Me Oh Blue, Blue Sky!
Voice Type: High/Medium
Buy via Sheet Music PlusWing'd Hour
Composer(s): Miriam Gideon
Song(s): 1. Silent Noon
2. My Heart is like a Singing Bird
3. Autumn
Voice Type: High
Buy via Sheet Music PlusThe Songs of John Duke
Composer(s): John Duke
Song(s): The Babe
The Bird
Little Elegy
Loveliest of Trees
February Twilight
A Piper
I Watched The Lady Caroline
Peggy Mitchell
When I Was One-And-Twenty
April Elegy
Elaine
Fragment
The Grunchin' Witch
Here In This Spot With You
I Can't Be Talkin' Of Love
I Carry Your Heart
I Ride The Great Black Horses
The Last Word Of A Bluebird
Shelling Peas
The White Dress
Voice Type: High
Buy via Hal LeonardThe Songs of John Duke
Composer(s): John Duke
Song(s): The Babe
The Bird
Little Elegy
Loveliest of Trees
February Twilight
A Piper
I Watched The Lady Caroline
Peggy Mitchell
When I Was One-And-Twenty
April Elegy
Elaine
Fragment
The Grunchin' Witch
Here In This Spot With You
I Can't Be Talkin' Of Love
I Carry Your Heart
I Ride The Great Black Horses
The Last Word Of A Bluebird
Shelling Peas
The White Dress
Voice Type: Low
Buy via Hal LeonardRichard Cory & Selected Songs
Composer(s): John Duke
Song(s): Richard Cory
Calvary
Luke Havergal
Miniver Cheevy
Bells in the Rain
Velvet Shoes
Viennese Waltz
Evening
Just-Spring
When I Set Out for Lyonnesse
Yellow Hair
Morning in Paris
In the Fields
The Mountains Are Dancing
Spring Thunder
Be Still As You Are Beautiful
One Red Rose
O World
The Song of Wandering Aengus
Brown Penny
Voice Type: Mixed
Buy via Carl Fischer MusicSpirit Above the Dust
Composer(s): Miriam Gideon
Song(s): 1. Prologue
2. Know the World
3. The Two Trees
4. The Linden Branch
5. Black Boy
6. My Caliban Creature
Interlude
7. The Snow Fall
Songs Through the Centuries: 41 Vocal Repertoire Pieces from the 17th Century Through the 20th Centuries
Composer(s): John Duke
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Composer(s): John Duke
Song(s): Voices
On a March Day
Capri
Central Park at Dusk
Spray
Only for Me
There Will Be Stars
I Love the Lord
The Door
Love's Secret
Voice Type: Medium
Buy via Boosey & HawkesSongs by 22 Americans
Composer(s): Samuel Barber
Leonard Bernstein
Paul Bowles
John Alden Carpenter
Celius Dougherty
John Duke
Charles Tomlinson Griffes
Richard Hageman
Charles Naginski
William Roy
Gladys Rich
Virgil Thomson
Elinor Remick Warren
Voice Type: High
Buy via Sheet Music PlusSongs of Charles Griffes - Volume I
Composer(s): Charles Griffes
Voice Type: High
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Composer(s): Charles Griffes
Voice Type: Medium
Buy via Sheet Music PlusThirty-Four Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson, Vol. 2
Composer(s): Arthur Farwell
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Composer(s): Arthur Farwell
Buy via Boosey & HawkesMy Days Have Been So Wondrous Free (High Voice)
Composer(s): Francis Hopkinson
Voice Type: High
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Composer(s): Francis Hopkinson
Voice Type: Low
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsThe music of Stephen C. Foster. Volume 2, 1856-1869
Composer(s): Stephen Foster
Find at your Local LibraryGenius Child
Composer(s): Ricky Ian Gordon
Song(s): 1. Winter Moon
2. Genius Child
3. Kid in the Park
4. To Be Somebody
5. Troubled Woman
6. Strange Hurt: Long Version
7. Strange Hurt: Short Version
8. Prayer
9. Border Line
10. My People
11. Joy
A Horse With Wings
Composer(s): Ricky Ian Gordon
Song(s): Once I Was
Sweet Song
Afternoon on a Hill
My Sister's New Red Hat
A Horse with Wings
Air
Poem (Lana Turner has Collapsed)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The Spring and the Fall
Souvenir
Coyotes
The Red Dress
What Shall We Remember?
Will There Really Be a Morning?
Sycamore Trees
Fewer Words
The Special Picnic
Janet Underneath the Roses
I am a Cherry Alive
An Old-Fashioned Song
White Haired Woman
Only Heaven
Composer(s): Ricky Ian Gordon
Song(s): Harlem Night Song
Daybreak In Alabama
When Sue Wears Red
Late Last Night
Port Town
Angel Wings
Luck
Delinquent
Dream Variations
In Time Of Silver Rain
Song For A Dark Girl
Drum
Litany
Dream
Night: Four Songs
Demand
Stars
Songs of Our Time
Composer(s): Ricky Ian Gordon
Song(s): Virginia Woolf
Friend
Little Horse
Spell against Sorrow
The Light Comes on by Itself
Pont Mirabeau
A Poem of Unrest
This Room
If You Can
Aspen Tree
Three Floors
The Crazy Woman
Child
Dreams / Feet o' Jesus
Come Down Angels (Trouble the Water)
Composer(s): Undine Smith Moore
Buy via Hildegard Publishing CompanyIs There Anybody Here That Loves My Jesus?
Composer(s): Undine Smith Moore
Buy via Hildegard Publishing CompanyLove Let the Wind Cry...How I Adore Thee
Composer(s): Undine Smith Moore
Buy via Hildegard Publishing CompanyFlowers of Darkness
Composer(s): Dorothy Rudd Moore
Voice Type: tenor
Buy via American Composers AllianceFive Songs, Op. 44
Composer(s): Henry Hadley
Song(s): 1. The Face of All the World Has Changed (op. 44, no. 1)
2. In Confidence (op. 44, no. 2)
3. I Heard a Maid With Her Guitar (op. 44, no. 3)
4. The Year's at the Spring (op. 44, no. 4)
5. Come What Will, You are Mine To-day" (op. 44, no. 5)
"The Time of Parting" (High Voice)
Composer(s): Henry Hadley
Voice Type: High
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Composer(s): Henry Hadley
Voice Type: Medium
Buy via Classical Vocal Reprints"Evening Song" (High Voice)
Composer(s): Henry Hadley
Voice Type: High
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Composer(s): Henry Hadley
Voice Type: Medium
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsEcho's Songs
Composer(s): Daron Aric Hagen
Song(s): 1. Never Pain to Tell Thy Love
2. I Am Not Yours
3. A Dream Within a Dream
4. Echo's Song
5. I Am Rose
6. Lost
7. Why Did You Go
8. Since You Went Away
9. Thou Wouldst Be Loved
10. Look Down, Fair Moon
11. The Mild Mother
Three Countee Cullen Songs, Op. 27
Composer(s): Robert Owens
Voice Type: High
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsSecond Anthology of Art Songs by Black American Composers (Out-of-Print)
Composer(s): Leslie Adams, Adolphus Hailstork, John Rosamond Johnson, Hall Johnson, Betty Jackson King, Howard Swanson, John W. Work III
Song(s): "Prayer" (H. Leslie Adams)
"Flying" (H. Leslie Adams)
"Midas, Poor Midas" (H. Leslie Adams)
"Christ at a Wedding" (H. Leslie Adams)
"The Future" (T.J. Anderson)
"I Want to Be Free" (T.J. Anderson)
"People" (T.J. Anderson)
"Life" (T.J. Anderson)
"Hymn to Parnassus"(R. Nathaniel Dett)
"Music I Heard with You" (Roger Dickerson)
"I Dream a World" (Uzee Brown Jr.)
"If He Only Walked in Gardens" (Mark Fax)
"Entreat Me Not" (Mark Fax)
"Slave Song" (Adolphus Hailstork)
"Songs of Love and Justice": "Justice," "Difficulties," "Decisions," "Love" (Adolphus Hailstork)
"Four Love Songs: "My Heart to Thy Heart," "Invitation to Love," "Longing," "Goodnight," "If we must die"(Adolphus Hailstork)
"Three Simple Songs": "In Vain," "The Daffodils," "Christmas Everywhere" (Adolphus Hailstork)
"Lil' gal" (J. Rosamond Johnson)
"Crossing the Bar" (Hall Johnson)
"The Foundling" (Hall Johnson)
"Thou Art My Lute" (Thomas Kerr Jr.)
"In Memoriam" (Thomas Kerr Jr.)
"Soliloquy (Haunted)" (Thomas Kerr Jr.)
"When You Feel a Little Blue" (James Lee III)
"Three Dunbar Poems": "Compensation," "Theology," "Dawn" (Betty Jackson King)
"Hatred" (Robert L. Morris)
"Ubique" (Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson)
"The Faithless Shepherdess" (Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson)
From "Thirteen Jazz Settings": "In Case You Put Me Down," "They All Say You're Lovely," "No, Babe, We Never Swing," "You are Not Quite the Air," "In Your Arms Baby" (Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson)
"One Day" (Howard Swanson)
"Snow Dunes" (Howard Swanson)
"Breathe on Me, Breath of God" (John W. Work, III)
Syllables of Velvet, Sentences of Plush
Composer(s): Juliana Hall
Song(s): To Eudocia C. Flynt
To T.W. Higginson
To Emily Fowler
To Samuel Bowles the younger
To Eugenia Hall
To Susan Gilbert
To Susan Gilbert II
From the Hearts of Women
Composer(s): William Grant Still
Voice Type: Soprano
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Composer(s): John Harbison
Voice Type: Mezzo-Soprano
Buy via Music Sales ClassicalThe Right to Pleasure- with piano
Composer(s): John Harbison
Voice Type: Mezzo-Soprano
Buy via Music Sales ClassicalMostly About Love (High Voice)
Composer(s): Virgil Thomson
Voice Type: High
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Composer(s): Virgil Thomson
Voice Type: Low
Buy via Music Sales ClassicalPraises and Prayers (High Voice)
Composer(s): Virgil Thomson
Voice Type: High
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Composer(s): Virgil Thomson
Voice Type: Low
Buy via Music Sales ClassicalThe Courtship of the Yongly Bongly Bo (High Voice)
Composer(s): Virgil Thomson
Voice Type: High
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Composer(s): Thom
Voice Type: Low
Buy via Music Sales ClassicalPortrait of F.B (High Voice)
Composer(s): Virgil Thomson
Voice Type: High
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Composer(s): Virgil Thomson
Voice Type: Low
Buy via Music Sales ClassicalAt Last, To Be Identified
Composer(s): Richard Pearson Thomas
Voice Type: Soprano
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsDrum-Taps: A Song Cycle of Whitman Poems
Composer(s): Richard Pearson Thomas
Voice Type: Baritone
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsLadies of Their Nights and Days
Composer(s): Richard Pearson Thomas
Voice Type: Mezzo Soprano
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsA Little Nonsense
Composer(s): Richard Pearson Thomas
Voice Type: High
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsRace For the Sky (Voices of 9/11)
Composer(s): Richard Pearson Thomas
Voice Type: High
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsSongs to Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Composer(s): Richard Pearson Thomas
Voice Type: Soprano
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsNight Songs: Four Poems of A. Crapsey
Composer(s): Lee Hoiby
Voice Type: High
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsBells for John Whiteside's Daughter
Composer(s): Lee Hoiby
Voice Type: Medium
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsFloral Decorations for Bananas
Composer(s): Lee Hoiby
Voice Type: Medium
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsContinual Conversation with a Silent Man
Composer(s): Lee Hoiby
Voice Type: Medium
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsSongs to Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Composer(s): Richard Pearson Thomas
Voice Type: Soprano
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsRise and Fall
Composer(s): Jake Heggie
Song(s): 1. Water Stone (Noguchi)
2. Incantation Bowl
3. Angel's Wings
4. The Shaman
In Memoriam (Walt Whitman)
Composer(s): James H. Rogers
Voice Type: Medium
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsEasy Songs for the Beginning Mezzo-Soprano/Alto
Composer(s): James H. Rogers
Song(s): Includes "At Parting"
Voice Type: Mezzo-Soprano / Alto
Buy via Classical Vocal Reprints"The Time For Making Songs Has Come" (High Voice)
Composer(s): James H. Rogers
Voice Type: High
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Composer(s): James H. Rogers
Voice Type: Medium
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsBrowning Songs (1st Series Op. 27)
Composer(s): Clara Kathleen Rogers
Voice Type: Medium High
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsFlorence Price: Five Art Songs (Dr. Rae Linda Brown, ed.)
Composer(s): Florence Price
Song(s): 1. Hold Fast to Dreams (Langston Hughes)
Key D Major - d minor
2. Travel's End (Mary Folwell Hoisington)
Key B Major (Low voice)
3. To My Little Son (Julia Johnson Davis)
Key B Major (Medium voice)
4. Fantasy in Purple (Langston Hughes)
Key f minor (Medium voice)
5. Sympathy (Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Key E-flat (Medium-High voice)
plus a transposed higher key, G Major (High voice)
Voice Type: Medium/High
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsFlorence Price: Two Songs (Ruth C. Friedberg, ed.)
Composer(s): Florence Price
Song(s): "Feet o' Jesus" (text by Langston Hughes)
"Trouble Done Come My Way"
Voice Type: Medium
Buy via Keiser Southern MusicArt Songs and Spirituals by African-American Women Composers (Vivian Taylor, ed.)
Composer(s): Margaret Bonds, Betty Jackson King, Dorothy Rudd Moore, Undine Smith Moore, Julia Perry, Zenobia Powell Perry, Florence Price
Song(s): Calvary (Spiritual) (1954) - Betty Jackson King
Come Down Angels (Spiritual) (1978) - Undine Smith Moore
Dry Bones (Spiritual) (1946) - Margaret Bonds
Free At Last (Spiritual) (1951) - Julia Perry
He's Got the Whole World In His Hand (Spiritual) (1963) - Margaret Bonds
I Am in Doubt (1975) - Undine Smith Moore
I'm a Poor Li'l Orphan in This Worl' (Spiritual) (1952) - Julia Perry
In the Springtime (1976) - Betty Jackson King
Is There Anybody Here That Loves My Jesus (Spiritual) (1981) - Undine Smith Moore
It's Me, O Lord (Spiritual) (1988) - Betty Jackson King
Lord, I Just Can't Keep from Cryin' (Spiritual) (1946) - Margaret Bonds
Love Let the Wind Cry… How I Adore Thee (1977) - Undine Smith Moore
My Dream (1935) - Florence B. Price
My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord (Spiritual) (1937) - Florence B. Price
Night (1946) - Florence B. Price
Song to the Dark Virgin (1926) - Florence B. Price
The Negro Speaks of Rivers (1942) - Margaret Bonds
Three Dream Portraits (1959) - Margaret Bonds
Watch and Pray (Spiritual) (1972) - Undine Smith Moore
Five Poems of Walt Whitman
Composer(s): Ned Rorem
Song(s): 1. Sometimes With One I Love
2. Look Down, Fair Moon
3. Gliding O'er All
4. Reconciliation
5. Gods
Lullabies and Dreams (High Voice)
Composer(s): Steven Mark Kohn
Voice Type: High
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Composer(s): Steven Mark Kohn
Voice Type: Medium
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsThree Impudent Arias (Medium Voice)
Composer(s): Steven Mark Kohn
Voice Type: Medium
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsAmerican Folk Set, Book 2 (High Voice)
Composer(s): Steven Mark Kohn
Voice Type: High
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Composer(s): Steven Mark Kohn
Voice Type: Medium
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Composer(s): Steven Mark Kohn
Voice Type: Medium/Low
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Composer(s): Steven Mark Kohn
Voice Type: High
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Composer(s): Steven Mark Kohn
Voice Type: Medium
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Composer(s): Steven Mark Kohn
Voice Type: High
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Composer(s): Steven Mark Kohn
Voice Type: Medium
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Composer(s): Steven Mark Kohn
Voice Type: Medium Low
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsThe Senator's Stump Speech (Medium/High Voice)
Composer(s): Steven Mark Kohn
Voice Type: Medium/High
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Composer(s): Steven Mark Kohn
Voice Type: Bass-Baritone
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsEight Songs, Op. 47 (medium voice)
Composer(s): Edward MacDowell
Voice Type: Medium
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Composer(s): Edward MacDowell
Voice Type: Low
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Composer(s): Edward MacDowell
Voice Type: Low
Find at your Local LibraryFour Songs, Op. 56 (low voice)
Composer(s): Edward MacDowell
Song(s): Long Ago (op. 56, no. 1)
The Swan Bent Low to the Lily (op. 56, no. 2)
A Maid Sings Light (op. 56, no. 3)
As the Gloaming Shadows Creep (op. 56, no. 4)
Voice Type: Low
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Composer(s): Edward MacDowell
Song(s): Long Ago (op. 56, no. 1)
The Swan Bent Low to the Lily (op. 56, no. 2)
A Maid Sings Light (op. 56, no. 3)
As the Gloaming Shadows Creep (op. 56, no. 4)
Voice Type: High
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Composer(s): Edward MacDowell
Song(s): Long Ago (op. 56, no. 1)
The Swan Bent Low to the Lily (op. 56, no. 2)
A Maid Sings Light (op. 56, no. 3)
As the Gloaming Shadows Creep (op. 56, no. 4)
Voice Type: High
Find at your Local LibraryThree Songs, Op. 60
Composer(s): Edward MacDowell
Song(s): Tyrant Love
Fair Springtide
To the Goldenrod
Three Songs, Op. 58
Composer(s): Edward MacDowell
Song(s): Constancy (op. 58, no. 1)
Sunrise (op. 58, no. 2)
Merry Maiden Spring (op. 58, no. 3)
Aftermath
Composer(s): Ned Rorem
Song(s): 1. The Drum
2. Tygers of Wrath
3. The Fury of the Aerial Bombardment
4. The Park
5. Sonnet LXIV
6. On his Seventy-Fifth Birthday
7. Grief
8. Remorse for Any Death
9. Losses
10. Then
Last Poems of Wallace Stevens
Composer(s): Ned Rorem
Song(s): 1. Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself
2. The River of Rivers in Connecticut
3. A Child Asleep in Its Own Life
4. The Planet on the Table
5. The Dove in Spring
6. Of Mere Being
7. A Clear Day and No Memories
Three Calamus Poems
Composer(s): Ned Rorem
Song(s): 1. Of Him I Love Day and Night
2. I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
3. To a Common Prostitute
Two Poems of Theodore Roethke
Composer(s): Ned Rorem
Song(s): 1. Orchids
2. I Strolled Across an Open Field
War Scenes
Composer(s): Ned Rorem
Song(s): 1. A Night Battle
2. A Specimen Case
3. An Incident
4. Inauguration Ball
5. The Real War Will Never Get in the Books
Voice Type: Medium
Buy via Boosey & Hawkes50 Collected Songs
Composer(s): Ned Rorem
Song(s): Clouds
Love
Alleluia
The End
Chromatic Fantasy
For Susan
Orchids
Psalm 150
The Nightingale
Absalom
A Birthday
A Child Asleep in Its Own Life
Conversation
A Journey
The Land of Fear
Little Elegy
The Lordly Hudson
Nantucket
O Do Not Love Too Long
On a Little Bird
Poem for F.
The Serpent
Shelley's Vision
The Sick Wife
Spring (Hopkins)
Spring (Koch)
The Waking
What if some little pain...
While Sodom was occupied
A Glimpse
He Thinks Upon His Death
Philomel
Rain in Spring
You, the young Rainbow
Early in the Morning
Are you the new person?
Catullus: on the Burial of His Brother
Ferry me across the water
I strolled across an open field
I will always love you
Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
Look down, fair moon
Love in a Life
On a Singing Girl
Sometimes with one I love
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Such beauty as hurts to behold
That shadow, my likeness
To a Young Girl
Visits to St. Elizabeths
Voice Type: High & Medium/Low
Buy via Sheet Music Plus14 Songs on American Poetry
Composer(s): Ned Rorem
Song(s): As Adam Early in the Morning (Walt Whitman)
Early in the Morning (Robert Hillyer)
I am Rose (Gertrude Stein)
Memory (Theodore Roethke)
My Papa's Waltz (Theodore Roethke)
Night Crow (Theodore Roethke)
O You Whom I Often and Silently Come (Walt Whitman)
Root Cellar (Theodore Roethke)
Sally's Smile (Paul Goodman)
See How They Love Me (Howard Moss)
Snake (Theodore Roethke)
Such Beauty As Hurts to Behold (Paul Goodman)
The Waking (Theodore Roethke)
Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night (Walt Whitman)
Six Songs For High Voice
Composer(s): Ned Rorem
Song(s): Pippa's Song (Robert Browning)
Cradle Song (16th Century Anonymous)
Song for a Girl (John Dryden)
Rondelay (John Dryden)
In a Gondola (Robert Browning)
Song to a Fair Young Lady Going out of Town in the Spring (John Dryden)
The Breaking Waves
Composer(s): Jake Heggie
Song(s): 1. Advent
2. Darkness
3. Music
4. Return
The Deepest Desire
Composer(s): Jake Heggie
Song(s): 1. More is Required
2. Love
3. I Catch on Fire
4. The Deepest Desire
5. Primary Colors
The Faces of Love (Book 3)
Composer(s): Jake Heggie
Song(s): 1. Barb'ry Allen
2. He's Gone Away
3. The Leather-Winged Bat
Voice Type: Medium
Buy via E. C. SchirmerBecoming a Redwood (High voice)
Composer(s): Lori Laitman
Song(s): 1. The Song
2. Pentecost
3. Curriculum Vitae
4. Becoming a Redwood
Voice Type: High
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsBecoming a Redwood (Medium Voice)
Composer(s): Lori Laitman
Song(s): 1. The Song
2. Pentecost
3. Curriculum Vitae
4. Becoming a Redwood
Voice Type: Medium
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsDays and Nights
Composer(s): Lori Laitman
Song(s): 1. Along With Me
2. They Might Not Need Me
3. The Night has a Thousand Eyes
4. Over the Fence
5. Song
6. Wild Nights
Early Snow
Composer(s): Lori Laitman
Song(s): 1. Last Night the Rain Spoke to Me
2. Blue Iris
3. Early Snow
Four Dickinson Songs (High Key)
Composer(s): Lori Laitman
Song(s): 1. Will There Really Be a Morning?
2. I'm Nobody
3. She Died
4. If I...
Voice Type: High
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsFour Dickinson Songs (Low key)
Composer(s): Lori Laitman
Song(s): 1. Will There Really Be a Morning?
2. I'm Nobody
3. She Died
4. If I...
Voice Type: Low
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsIn This Short Life
Composer(s): Lori Laitman
Song(s): 1. Some Keep the Sabbath
2. I Stepped From Plank to Plank
3. In This Short Life
Men With Small Heads (Countertenor or Mezzo-Soprano)
Composer(s): Lori Laitman
Song(s): 1. Men With Small Heads
2. Refrigerator, 1957
3. A Small Tin Parrot Pin
4. Snake Lake
Voice Type: Medium
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsMen With Small Heads (Baritone)
Composer(s): Lori Laitman
Song(s): 1. Men With Small Heads
2. Refrigerator, 1957
3. A Small Tin Parrot Pin
4. Snake Lake
Voice Type: Low
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsThe Metropolitan Tower and Other Songs
Composer(s): Lori Laitman
Song(s): 1. The Metropolitan Tower
2. A Winter Night
3. Old Tunes
4. The Strong House
5. The Hour
6. To a Loose Woman
Voice Type: High
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsChilde Emilie
Composer(s): Leo Smit
Song(s): 1. I was the slightest in the House
2. Through lane it lay - through bramble
3. It troubled me as once I was
4. The Child's faith is new
5. Softened by Time's consummate plush
6. Papa above!
7. We talked as Girls do
8. They shut me up in Prose
9. I cried at Pity - not at Pain
10. Let Us play Yesterday
11. A loss of something ever felt I
12. Good Morning - Midnight
13. Up Life's Hill with my little Bundle
14. I'm ceded - I've stopped being Theirs
Voice Type: Mezzo-Soprano, Soprano
Buy via Theodore Presser CompanyMystery (Mezzo-Soprano Version)
Composer(s): Lori Laitman
Song(s): 1. Nightfall
2. Spray
3. The Kiss
4. The Mystery
5. The Rose
Voice Type: Medium
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsMystery (Baritone Version)
Composer(s): Lori Laitman
Song(s): 1. Nightfall
2. Spray
3. The Kiss
4. The Mystery
5. The Rose
Voice Type: Low
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsThe White Diadem
Composer(s): Leo Smit
Song(s): 1. I reckon - when I count at all
2. I dwell in Possibility
3. The Martyr Poets - did not tell
4. The Poets light but Lamps
5. I would not paint - a picture
6. To pile like Thunder to its close
7. Me - come! My dazzled face
Voice Type: Mezzo-Soprano, Soprano
Buy via Theodore Presser CompanyOne Bee and Revery
Composer(s): Lori Laitman
Song(s): 1. The Butterfly Upon
2. Hope is a Strange Invention
3. To Make a Prairie
Plums (Two Songs)
Composer(s): Lori Laitman
Song(s): 1. To a Poor Old Woman
2. This Is Just To Say
Sunflowers
Composer(s): Lori Laitman
Song(s): 1. The Sunflowers
2. Dreams
3. Sunrise
Two Songs for Tenor
Composer(s): Lori Laitman
Song(s): 1. Full Moon
2. Light Hearted William
Octaves and Sweet Sounds (High Voice)
Composer(s): Richard Hundley
Song(s): 1. Strings in the Earth and Air Text: James Joyce
2. Seashore Girls Text: E. E. Cummings
3. Moonlight's Watermelon Text: Jose Garcia Villa
4. Straightway Beauty On Me Waits Text: James Purdy
5. Well Welcome Text: Gertrude Stein
Voice Type: High
Buy via Boosey & HawkesOctaves and Sweet Sounds (Medium Voice)
Composer(s): Richard Hundley
Song(s): 1. Strings in the Earth and Air Text: James Joyce
2. Seashore Girls Text: E. E. Cummings
3. Moonlight's Watermelon Text: Jose Garcia Villa
4. Straightway Beauty On Me Waits Text: James Purdy
5. Well Welcome Text: Gertrude Stein
Voice Type: Medium
Buy via Boosey & HawkesTen Songs (For High Voice and Piano)
Composer(s): Richard Hundley
Voice Type: High
Buy via Boosey & HawkesMore Nonsense Rhymes & Pictures, Op. 43
Composer(s): Margaret Ruthven Lang
Song(s): 1. There was a Young Lady of Parma
2. There was an Old Man with a Beard
Nonsense Rhymes & Pictures, Op. 42
Composer(s): Margaret Ruthven Lang
Song(s): 1. There was a Young Lady of Lucca
2. There was an Old Person of Skye
3. There was an Old Man with a Gong
4. There was an Old Lady of France
5. There was an Old Man in a Tree
6. There was an Old Person of Cassel
Shadow of the Blues
Composer(s): John Musto
Song(s): 1. Silhouette
2. Litany
3. Island
4. Could Be
Songs From Letters
Composer(s): Libby Larsen
Song(s): 1. So Like Your Father's
2. He Never Misses
3. A Man Can Love Two Women
4. All I Have
5. A Working Woman
Cowboy Songs
Composer(s): Libby Larsen
Song(s): 1. Bucking Bronco
2. Lift Me Into Heaven Slowly
3. Billy the Kid
Heaven's River
Composer(s): David Leisner
Song(s): 1. The Boat
2. Light
3. To the Stream
O Love Is The Crooked Thing
Composer(s): David Leisner
Song(s): 1. Down by the Salley Gardens
2. The Two Trees
3. A Drinking Song
4. The Wild Swans at Coole
5. Brown Penny
Outdoor Shadows
Composer(s): David Leisner
Song(s): 1. Slow
2. Homeward
3. Yes, What?
4. Seagulls
5. Sing a Song of Juniper
Simple Songs
Composer(s): David Leisner
Song(s): 1. Exultation
2. Beauty
3. Madness
4. Letter
5. Humility
6. Simplicity
Three James Tate Songs
Composer(s): David Leisner
Song(s): 1. I Can't Speak for the Wind
2. Never Again the Same
3. From an Island
Voice Type: Medium
Buy via the Theodore Presser CompanyTo Sleep
Composer(s): David Leisner
Song(s): 1. Sleeping on the Ceiling
2. The Unbeliever
3. Sonnet
Half-Minute Songs
Composer(s): Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Song(s): 1. Making the Best of It
2. First Ask Yourself
3. To Understand
4. How to Find Success
5. The Pleasure of Giving
6. Answer the First Rap
7. A Good Exercise
8. A Present from Yourself
9. Now and Then
10. When They Say the Unkind Things
11. Keep Awake
12. Doan' Yo' Lis'n
First Solos: Songs by Women Composers, Volume I: High Voice
Composer(s): Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Song(s): Her Greatest Charm
Buy via the Hildegard Publishing Company"Nothin' But Love" (High Key)
Composer(s): Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Voice Type: High
Buy via Classical Vocal Reprints"Nothin' But Love" (Low Key)
Composer(s): Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Voice Type: Low
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsHoney and Rue
Composer(s): André Previn
Song(s): 1. Mercy
2. Stones
3. Shelter
4. The Lacemaker
Three Dickinson Songs
Composer(s): André Previn
Song(s): 1. As Imperceptibly as grief
2. Will there really be a morning?
3. Good Morning, Midnight
Voice Type: Soprano
Buy via Hal Leonard"A Perfect Day" (High Key)
Composer(s): Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Voice Type: High
Buy via Classical Vocal Reprints"A Perfect Day" (Low Key)
Composer(s): Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Voice Type: Low
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsFour Songs (André Previn)
Composer(s): André Previn
Song(s): 1. Mercy
2. Stones
3. Shelter
4. The Lacemaker
Voice Type: Soprano
Buy via Hal LeonardNine Songs to Poems of Emily Dickinson
Composer(s): Otto Luening
Song(s): 1. Our Share of Night to Bear
2. The Show is Not the Show
3. Hope is the Thing with Feathers
4. If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking
5. Experiment to Me
6. I Felt a Cleavage in my Mind
7. Few Yet Enough
8. Soul, Wilt Thou Toss Again?
9. When I Hoped, I Feared
Thirteen Dickinson Songs
Composer(s): George Perle
Song(s): 1. Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower
2. I Like to see it lap the miles
3. I know some lonely Houses off the road
4. There came a Wind like a Bugle
5. Beauty—be not caused—It is
6. The Wind—tapped like a tired Man
7. These are the days when Birds come back
8. The Heart asks—Pleasure first
9. What if I say I shall not wait!
10. If I’m lost—now
11. The Loneliness One dare not sound
12. Under the Light, yet under
13. She bore it till the simple veins
Voice Type: Soprano
Buy via Schott MusicFive Songs, Op. 12
Composer(s): Ethelbert Nevin
Song(s): 1. A Summer Day
2. Beat upon mine, little heart
3. In a Bower
4. Little Boy Blue
5. At Twilight (Peyton Van Rensselaer)
Songs from Vineacre, Op. 28
Composer(s): Ethelbert Nevin
Song(s): 1. A Necklace of Love
2. Mon Desir
3. Sleeping and Dreaming
4. The Nightingale's Song
5. The Dream-Maker Man
6. The Silver Moon (La Lune Blanche)
7. Ein Liedchen
8. Ein Heldenlied
Ethelbert Nevin, Song Album II (Recital Publications)
Composer(s): Ethelbert Nevin
Find at your Local LibrarySix Songs, Op. 24
Composer(s): Horatio Parker
Song(s): 1. Cavalry song
2. Egyptian serenade
3. The light is fading
4. O ask me not [Lieb Seelchen lass das Fragen sein]
5. Pack, clouds, away!
6. Spring song
Three Sacred Songs, Op. 22
Composer(s): Horatio Parker
Song(s): 1. Morning
2. Evening
3.Heaven's Hope
American Pierrot: A Langston Hughes Songbook
Composer(s): Robert G. Patterson
Buy via Sheet Music PlusLife Signs: Six Songs on Texts by Emily Dickinson
Composer(s): Robert G. Patterson
Song(s): 1. Surgeons must be very careful!
2. I Years had been from Home
3. The Drop, that wrestles in the Sea
4. A little Snow was here and there
5. I’m Nobody! Who are you?
6. I should not dare to leave my friend
Songs from 'As You Like It'
Composer(s): Robert G. Patterson
Song(s): 1. Under the Greenwood Tree
2. Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind
3. It Was a Lover and His Lass
4. What Shall He Have That Killed the Deer
5. Wedding Is Great Juno's Crown
Songs of Death and Digestion
Composer(s): Robert G. Patterson
Song(s): 1. Lather As You Go
2. Geddondillo
3. The Screen with the Face with the Voice
Tanka Modern and Ancient
Composer(s): Robert G. Patterson
Song(s): 1. A Lightning Strike (Beverly George, Australia)
2. Moonlight (Dorothy McLaughlin, U.S.)
3. Her Sharp Knife (Carol Purington, U.S.)
4. No. 3430 (Collection of Ten-Thousand Leaves, 8th Century Japan)
5. Traveling the Path (Edward J. Reilly, probably U.S. but not sure)
6. Field After Field (David Rice, probably U.S.)
7. No. 2538 (Collection of Ten-Thousand Leaves, 8th Century Japan) / I Tasted Him (Renee Gregorio, U.S.)
Way of the River
Composer(s): Robert G. Patterson
Song(s): 1. from “Sun-Down Poem” (Whitman)
2. Strings in the Earth and Air (Joyce)
3. Psalm 65:9-12 (Douay-Rheims)
4. from “The Elephant's Child” (Kipling)
5. The Ballad of Poor Susan (Wordsworth) Interlude
6. The River/Deep River (Teasdale/Anonymous)
Tributaries
Composer(s): Ernst Bacon
Song(s): World, take notice
Lingering last drops
The Spanish armada
The banks of the Yellow Sea
If bees are few
Sunset
Ariel
With the first arbutus
Sleep
Miranda
Summer's lapse
The bat
There's this to say
No more
Farewell to a name
This and my heart
Eden
Alabaster wool
Dusk
Vanity of vanities
Ancient carol
The last invocation
The divine ship
The red rose
Song of snow-white heads
Simple days
Water
The postponeless creature
Eternity
The unquiet grave
The unseen soul
Voice Type: Medium-High
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsSongs By John Duke, Vol. 2
Composer(s): John Duke
Song(s): 1. Reveille (А.Е. Housman)
2. O, It Was out by Donneycarney (James Joyce)
3. Bread and Music (Conrad Aiken)
4. Stop All the Clocks (W.H. Auden)
5. Counting the Beats (Robert Graves)
6. Survivor (Archibald MacLeish)
7. Give Me Your Hand (John Wheelock)
8. The Black Panther (John Wheelock)
9. Spirit's House (Sara Teasdale)
10. Mastery (Sara Teasdale)
11. Lessons (Sara Teasdale)
12. In а Burying Ground (Sara Teasdale)
13. Wood Song (Sara Teasdale)
14. Refuge (Sara Teasdale)
15. At the Aquarium (Max Eastman)
16. Dirge (Adelaide Crapsey)
17. Night Coming out of а Garden (Lord Alfred Douglas)
18. The Dark Hills (Е.А. Robinson)
Voice Type: Medium
Buy via Keiser / Southern MusicSongs By John Duke, Vol. 4
Composer(s): John Duke
Song(s): 1. My Soul is an Enchanted Boat (Percy В. Shelley)
2. White in the Moon (A.E. Housman)
3. XXth Century (Robert Hillyer)
4. The End of the World (Archibald MacLeish)
5. Rapunzel (Adelaide Crapsey)
6. Wild Swans (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
7. To Karen, Singing (John Duke)
8. So Simple (Mark Van Doren)
9. Dunce's Song (Mark Van Doren)
10. Slowly, Slowly Wisdom Gathers (Mark Van Doren)
11. Kennst du das Land? (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
12. Heiss mich nicht reden (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
13. So lasst mich scheinen (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Voice Type: Mixed Voice
Buy via Keiser / Southern MusicFlorence Price: 44 Art Songs and Spirituals
Composer(s): Florence Price
Song(s): A White Rose (John Boyle O'Reilly)
An April Day (Joseph Cotter)
Because (Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Beside the Sea (Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Bewilderment (Langston Hughes)
Dawn's Awakening (James Joseph Burke)
Death's Gwineter Lay His Cold Icy Hand on Me (Spiritual)
Feet o' Jesus (Langston Hughes)
Four Encore Songs: Tobacco (Graham Lee Hemminger); A Flea and a Fly (Ogden Nash); "Come, come," said Tom's Father (Thomas Moore); Song of the Open Road (Ogden Nash)
Go Down, Moses (Spiritual)
God Gives Me You (Nora Connelly)
Hold Fast to Dreams (Langston Hughes)
I Grew a Rose (Paul Laurence Dunbar)
I'm Goin' to Lay Down My Heavy Load (Spiritual)
Love-in-a-mist (Mary Rolofson Gamble)
My Little Soul's Goin' to Shine (Spiritual)
My Neighbor (Paul Laurence Dunbar)
My Soul's Been Anchored in de Lord (Spiritual)
Night (Louise C. Wallace)
Out of the South Blew a Wind (Fannie Carter Woods)
Resignation (Florence B. Price)
Rise Mourner (Spiritual)
Save Me Lord, Save Me (Spiritual)
Some o' These Days (Spiritual)
Song to the Dark Virgin (Langston Hughes)
Sunset (Odessa P. Elder)
Sympathy (Paul Laurence Dunbar)
The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face (James Weldon Johnson)
The Moon Bridge (Mary Rolofson Gamble)
The Poet and His Song (Paul Laurence Dunbar)
The Washerwoman (Otto Leland Bohanan)
To My Little Son (Julia Johnson Davis)
Travel's End (Mary Folwell Hoisington)
Trouble Done Come My Way (Florence B. Price)
Two Traditional Negro Spirituals: I am Bound for the Kingdom; I'm Workin' on My Buildin'
We Have Tomorrow (Langston Hughes)
Weary Traveler (Spiritual)
What's the Use (Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Words for a Spiritual ("Capricorn")
You Won't Find a Man Like Jesus (Spiritual)
Voice Type: Medium/High
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsArt Songs by American Women Composers, Vol. 15: Florence Price
Composer(s): Florence Price
Song(s): Dreamin' Town
What's the use?
Go down, Moses
My little soul's goin' to shine
Voice Type: Medium/High
Find at your Local Library (Out-of-print)How Beautiful are the Feet
Composer(s): Julia Perry
Song(s): How Beautiful are the Feet
Voice Type: Medium Voice
Buy via Morning Star MusicKurt Weill: The Unknown Kurt Weill
Composer(s): Kurt Weill
Song(s): Schickelgruber, Buddy on the Nightshift
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsKurt Weill: Unsung Weill
Composer(s): Kurt Weill
Song(s): Great Big Sky (1946), text by Langston Hughes Street Light Is My Moonlight (1946), text by Langston Hughes You Understand Me So (1948), text by Alan Jay Lerner There's Nothing Left for Daddy (but the Rhumba) (1948), text by Alan Jay Lerner How I Love My Work (1948), text by Alan Jay Lerner Who Am I? (1942), text by Ogden Nash Love in a Mist (1942), text by Ogden Nash Vive la différence (1942), text by Ogden Nash Bats About You (1940), text by Ira Gershwin Unforgettable (1940), text by Ira Gershwin It's Never Too Late to Mendelssohn (1940), text by Ira Gershwin It Could Have Happened to Anyone (1944), text by Ira Gershwin How Far Will You Go with Me? (1938), text by Maxwell Anderson The Little Tin God (1949), text by Maxwell Anderson Too Much to Dream (1937), text by Sam Coslow The Romance of a Lifetime (1937), text by Sam Coslow The Picture on the Wall (date unknown), text by Ann Ronell Your Technique (date unknown), text by Ann Ronell The River Is So Blue (1937), text by Ann Ronell The Good Earth (1942), text by Oscar Hammerstein Inventory (1942), text by Lewis Allan Farewell, Goodbye (1936), text by Paul Green
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsMaud Cuney Hare: Six Creole Folk-Songs
Composer(s): Maud Cuney Hare
Song(s): “Aurore Pradère”, “Gardé Piti Mulet Là”, “Belle Layotte”, “Quand mo-té jeun’”, “Aine, dé, trois, Caroline”, Dialogue d’Amour,
Free via IMSLPTania León Sheet Music
Buy via Peer Music ClassicalT.J. Anderson: A Sonic Language
Composer(s): T. J. Anderson
Voice Type: Soprano
Buy via American Composers AllianceT. J.Anderson: Beyond Silence: A Cantata for Tenor, Bb Clarinet, Trombone, Viola, Cello, and Piano
Composer(s): T. J. Anderson
Voice Type: Tenor
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Composer(s): T. J. Anderson
Voice Type: Medium Voice
Buy via American Composers AllianceT. J. Anderson: Cairo Songbook
Composer(s): T. J. Anderson
Song(s): THE CALLINGS THE MONKEY HAS DIED THE TALLEST MAN IN THE WORLD TIC CAIRO: THE HANGING CHURCH
Voice Type: Mezzo Soprano
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Composer(s): T. J. Anderson
Song(s): I. Cedar II. Spider Silk Riddle III. The Flying Squirrel IV. Dovey Junction V. Dancing With Her
Voice Type: Soprano
Buy via American Composers AllianceT. J. Anderson: Songs of Illumination
Composer(s): T. J. Anderson
Song(s): Living below Van Gogh, Cody and the chicken, Income, Moon, Myself when I am real, Confession, River to cross, Corner court, Frankie, dead, Nina, Message of fire, Song of illumination
Voice Type: Soprano, Tenor
Buy via The Subito StoreTwo Songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Cello
Composer(s): Robert Owens
Song(s): 1. I am Part of the Load 2. Drum sound rises on the air
Voice Type: Mezzo-Soprano
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsCamille Nickerson: "Dansé conni conné!"
Voice Type: Medium
Find at your Local Library (Out-of-print)Camille Nickerson: "Lizette, ma chêre amie"
Voice Type: Medium
Find at your Local Library (Out-of-print)Camille Nickerson: "Chère, mo lemmé toi"
Voice Type: Medium
Find at your Local Library (Out-of-print)A New Anthology of Art Songs by African American Composers
Composer(s): H. Leslie Adams, Mable Bailey, Charles S. Brown, Wallace McClain Cheatham, Adolphus Hailstork, Jacqueline B. Hairston, William H. Henderson, Jeraldine Saunders Herbison, Betty Jackson King, William Foster McDaniel, Undine Smith Moore, Byron Motley, Barbara Sherrill, Robert Owens, Nadine Shanti, Frederick Tillis, Dolores White, Julius P. Williams
Free via Google BooksSongs of Perfect Propriety (vol. 1)
Composer(s): Seymour Barab
Song(s): Song of Perfect Propriety, Now at Liberty, Ultimatum, Renunciation, Inventory, Social Note, A Very Short Song, One Perfect Rose, Wisdom, Men, Lullaby, Comment
Voice Type: medium- high
Buy via Hal LeonardSongs of Perfect Propriety (vol. 2)
Composer(s): Seymour Barab
Song(s): Symptom Recital, The False Friends, Love Song, Indian Summer, Somebody's Song, Song of One of the Girls, Bri-a-Brac, They Part, Chant for Dark Hours, The Choice, The Trusting Heart, Coda
Voice Type: medium- high
Buy via Hal Leonard3 Lieder für Mezzosopran mit Klavier Op. 19
Composer(s): Robert Owens
Voice Type: Mezzo-Soprano
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Composer(s): Robert Owens
Voice Type: Baritone
Buy via Classical Vocal Reprints9 Settings of Lorine Niedecker for Soprano and Cello
Composer(s): Harrison Birtwistle
Voice Type: Soprano
Buy via Hal LeonardSeven Poems of Lorine Niedecker: For Voice and Piano
Composer(s): John Harbison
Buy via Classical on DemandLori Laitman Sheet Music
Buy via MusicaNeoAnd I Will Bring Them
Composer(s): Lori Laitman
Voice Type: Countertenor
Buy via lorilaitman.musicaneo.comAnd Music Will Not End
Composer(s): Lori Laitman
Song(s): Partial Lunar Eclipse; A Pastoral Lament
Voice Type: Mezzo Soprano or Countertenor
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsFresh Patterns
Composer(s): Lori Laitman
Song(s): It’s All I Have to Bring Today; A Letter for Emily Dickinson; Fresh Patterns
Voice Type: 2 Sopranos
Buy Via Classical Vocal ReprintsIn Sleep the World is Yours
Composer(s): Lori Laitman
Song(s): Lullaby, Yes, Tragedy
Voice Type: Soprano
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsLowell Liebermann
Buy via Theodore PresserA Poet to His Beloved, Op. 40
Composer(s): Lieberman, Lowell
Voice Type: Tenor
Buy via Theodore Presser (Piano Reduction)A Poet to His Beloved, Op. 40
Composer(s): Lieberman, Lowell
Voice Type: Tenor
Buy via Theodore Presser (Original Instrumentation)Music, When Soft Voices Die, Op. 127
Composer(s): Liebermann, Lowell
Voice Type: Soprano
Buy via Theodore PresserSix Songs on Poems by Henry W. Longfellow, op. 57
Composer(s): Liebermann, Lowell
Voice Type: High Voice
Buy via Theodore PresserStopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening, Op. 104
Composer(s): Liebermann, Lowell
Song(s): Into My Own, Blue-Butterfly Day, Now Close The Windows, Dust Of Snow, Stars, Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
Voice Type: Bass-Baritone
Buy via Theodore PresserThree Dream Songs, Op. 53
Composer(s): Liebermann, Lowell
Song(s): Ardella, Dream, I Dream a World
Buy via Theodore PresserThree Poems of Stephen Crane, Op. 11
Composer(s): Liebermann, Lowell
Song(s): Places among the stars, Friend, your white beard sweeps the ground, and A row of thick pillars
Voice Type: Baritone
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Composer(s): Liebermann, Lowell
Song(s): Places among the stars, Friend, your white beard sweeps the ground, and A row of thick pillars
Voice Type: Baritone
Buy via Theodore Presser (Original Instrumentation)Six Songs on Poems of Raymond Carver, op. 80
Composer(s): Liebermann, Lowell
Voice Type: Baritone
Buy via Theodore Presser (Original Instrumentation)Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, Op. 41
Composer(s): Liebermann, Lowell
Buy via Theodore Presser (Piano Reduction)Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, Op. 41
Composer(s): Liebermann, Lowell
Voice Type: Soprano
Buy via Theodore Presser (Original Instrumentation)Four Seasons, op. 123
Composer(s): Liebermann, Lowell
Voice Type: Mezzo-soprano
Buy via Theodore Presser (Original Instrumentation)War Songs, Op. 7
Composer(s): Liebermann, Lowell
Song(s): The Portent, Misgivings, Ball's Bluff, and Shiloh
Voice Type: Bass
Buy via Theodore PresserWinter Roses
Composer(s): Heggie, Jake
Song(s): The Wren, The Robin, A Hero, Sleeping, To My Dad, Sweet Light, Late Fragment
Voice Type: Mezzo-Soprano
Buy via Bill Holab MusicTwo Raymond Carver Songs
Composer(s): Pender, Scott
Song(s): Grief, Happiness
Voice Type: Baritone
Buy via Scott Pender's WebsiteHere and Gone
Composer(s): Heggie, Jake
Song(s): The Farms of Home, In Praise of Songs that Die, Stars, The Factory Window Song, In the Morning, Because I Liked You Better, The Half-Moon Westers Low
Voice Type: Tenor and Baritone
Buy via Sheet Music PlusSome Times of Day
Composer(s): Heggie, Jake
Song(s): The Minuet, Simple, The Best Time of Day
Voice Type: Mezzo-soprano
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Find via IMSLPNocturnal visions, op. 145
Composer(s): Gardner Read
Song(s): Night of all nights, The First jasmines, & I hear an army
Voice Type: Baritone
Buy via J.W. PepperGardner Read
Buy via Sheet Music PlusRediscovering Margaret Bonds: Art Songs, Spirituals, Musical Theater and Popular Songs
Composer(s): Margaret Bonds
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsMortal Storm for Baritone and Piano Op.29
Composer(s): Robert Owens
Voice Type: Baritone
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsThree songs for voice and piano (1992)
Composer(s): George Walker
Song(s): In time of silver rain / Langston Hughes -- I never saw a moor / Emily Dickinson -- Mother Goose (circa 2054) / Irene Sekula.
Find via WorldCatBeyond the Rim of Day
Composer(s): Hale Smith
Song(s): 1. March Moon, 2. Troubled Woman, 3. To a Little Lover-lass, Dead
Voice Type: High Voice
Buy via Subito MusicSong for the Lonely
Composer(s): William Grant Still
Voice Type: Medium Voice
Buy via Theodore Front Music Literature3 songs for Baritone and Piano, Op. 41
Composer(s): Robert Owens
Song(s): The Lynching, If We Must Die, To the White Fiends
Voice Type: Baritone
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsFi Mi Love Have Lion Heart - Five Songs For Soprano and Piano
Composer(s): Peter Ashbourne
Song(s): “Banyan Tree”, “Liza”, “Nobody’s Business”, “Fi Mi Love”, “Long Time Gal”
Voice Type: Soprano
Buy via peterashbourne.comSong of the Seasons
Composer(s): Valarie Capers
Song(s): Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter
Voice Type: Soprano
Buy via VidemusSongs for the African Violet
Composer(s): Jasmine Barnes
Song(s): Home, Is it Fair?, Flowers, Crowned
Buy via Jasmine BarnesThere’s a Sweet, Sweet Spirit
Composer(s): Jasmine Barnes
Voice Type: Soprano
Buy via jasminebarnescomposer.comAn Anthology of African and African Diaspora Songs - 60 Songs
Composer(s): H. Leslie Adams, David N. Baker, Margaret Bonds, Charles Brown, H. T. Burleigh, Valerie Capers, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Arthur Cunningham, Harriette Davison Watkins, William Dawson, Mark Fax, Bruce Forsythe, Antônio Carlos Gomes, Adolphus Hailstork, Jacqueline Hairston, Maud Cuney Hare, Jeraldine Herbison, Jonathan Holland, Sylvia Hollifield, Langston Hughes, J. Rosamond Johnson, Thomas Kerr, Lena McLin, Undine Smith Moore, Andre Myers, Camille Nickerson, Fred Onovwerosuoke, Eurydice Osterman, Robert Owens, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Zenobia Powell Perry, Rosephanye Powell, Florence Price, Dave Ragland, Nadine Shanti, Carlos Simon, Hale Smith, Irene Britton Smith, Brandon Spencer, Hilbert Stewart, Howard Swanson, George Walker, Aurelia Young
Song(s): Amazing Grace (H. Leslie Adams)
Christmas Lullaby (H. Leslie Adams)
Sence You Went Away (H. Leslie Adams)
The Heart of a Woman (H. Leslie Adams)
The Alarm Clock (David N. Baker)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers (Margaret Bonds)
Caring (Charles Brown)
Desire (Charles Brown)
Your Eyes So Deep (H. T. Burleigh)
Your Lips Are Wine (H. T. Burleigh)
Autumn (Valerie Capers)
Elëanore (Samuel Coleridge-Taylor)
The Willow Song (Samuel Coleridge-Taylor)
Minakesh (Arthur Cunningham)
Stars (Harriette Davison Watkins)
Out in the Fields (William Dawson)
The Refused (Mark Fax)
With Rue My Heart Is Laden (Bruce Forsythe)
Suspiro d’alma (Antônio Carlos Gomes)
If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking (Adolphus Hailstork)
Longing (Adolphus Hailstork)
Loveliest of Trees (Adolphus Hailstork)
Dormi, Jesu (Jacqueline Hairston)
Gardé Piti Mulet Là (Maud Cuney Hare)
I’ll Not Forget (Jeraldine Herbison)
Little Elegy (Jonathan Holland)
In Time of Silver Rain (Sylvia Hollifield)
The Founding Fathers (Langston Hughes)
This is My Land (Langston Hughes)
L’il Gal (J. Rosamond Johnson)
Soliloquy (Thomas Kerr)
Amazing Grace (Lena McLin)
The Year’s at the Spring (Lena McLin)
I Am in Doubt (Undine Smith Moore)
I Want to Die While You Love Me (Undine Smith Moore)
For a Poet (Andre Myers)
Chere, Mo Lemmé Toi (Camille Nickerson)
Gué, Gué, Solingaie (Camille Nickerson)
Mshila (Fred Onovwerosuoke)
Entreaty (I Am the Rose of Sharon) (Eurydice Osterman)
Could I but Ride Indefinite (Robert Owens)
Die Nacht (Robert Owens)
From the Dark Tower (Robert Owens)
The Lynching (Robert Owens)
The Secret (Robert Owens)
Madrigal (Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson)
O Children of Men (Zenobia Powell Perry)
I Want to Die While You Love Me (Rosephanye Powell)
Spring (Florence Price)
The Sum (Florence Price)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (Dave Ragland)
Mangez, Boulez (Eat, Drink, Be Merry) (Nadine Shanti)
Prayer (Carlos Simon)
Troubled Woman (Hale Smith)
Why Fades a Dream? (Irene Britton Smith)
Dream Variations (Brandon Spencer)
Spring Song (Hilbert Stewart)
One Day (Howard Swanson)
I Went to Heaven (George Walker)
Norris Swamp (Aurelia Young)
Voice Type: 36 Songs are for High Voice - Medium to High Voice
24 Songs are for Medium - Medium to Low Voice
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: "Fredome-freedom : for SATB chorus with piano (or instruments)"
WorldCatColeridge-Taylor Perkinson: "Lamentations : black/folk song suite : (1980) : solo cello"
WorldCatDorothy Rudd Moore
Buy Scores via American Composers AllianceMy Spirituals
Composer(s): Eva Jessye
Song(s): Who Is Dat Yondah?, Spirit o' the Lord Done Fell on Me, An' I Cry, Bles' My Soul an' Gone, I Been 'Buked 'an I Been Scorned, Stan' Steady, Ain't Got Long to Stay Heah, March Down to Jerdon, John Saw de Holy Numbah, I'm a Po' Li'l Orphan, When Moses Smote de Water, So I Can Write My Name, I Can't Stay Away, Tall Angel At The Bar, Got A Home At Las', I'se Mighty Tired
WorldCatCarlos Simon: Works for Voice
Composer(s): Carlos Simon
Song(s): Dead Fires, Caro mio ben, Prayer, Nightfall (...while you were dreaming..)
Buy via Simon's websiteShawn E. Okpebholo Collection of Spirituals- Volume 1
Composer(s): Shawn E. Okpebholo
Song(s): 11
Voice Type: Baritone and Mezzo-soprano
Buy via (shawnokpebholo.com)Shawn E. Okpebholo Collection of Reimagined Negro Spirituals and Folk Hymns (Volume 2)
Composer(s): Shawn E. Okpebholo
Song(s): 8
Voice Type: Baritone and Mezzo-soprano
Buy via (shawnokpebholo.com)Three Patterson Lyrics: For Soprano and Piano
Composer(s): Hale Smith
Song(s): Night Peace, To a Weathercock, The World Bows Down to Beauty (Sonnet I)
Voice Type: Soprano
Lori Hicks: Sheet Music
Composer(s): Lori Hicks
Song(s): I Wanna Die Easy, Mount Zion, I Want Jesus, Heaven Spirituals, Sence You Went Away
Buy via Dr. Hicks' websiteThe Words of Christ
Composer(s): Beverly Benjamin Cole
Song(s): The Beatitudes, Let Your Light So Shine, The Lord's Prayer, Judge Not, Lay Up For Yourselves Treasures in Heaven
Voice Type: High, Medium, and Low Voice
A Shropshire Lad
Composer(s): Beverly Benjamin Cole
Song(s): With Rue My Heart Is Laden, Into My Heart An Air That Kills, If Truth In Hearts That Perish, If It Chance Your Eye Offend You, Oh, Fair Enough Are Sky And Plain, Say Lad, Have You Things To Do, Be Still, My Soul (#7), Be Still, My Soul (#8), Oh, When I Was In Love With You, Look Not In My Eyes, From Far, From Eve and Morning
Voice Type: High, Medium, and Low Voice
The Flowers
Composer(s): Beverly Benjamin Cole
Song(s): The Violet, Daffodils, The Jasmine, To A Mountain Daisy, Flowers, Bowing Adorers of the Gale
Voice Type: High, Medium, and Low Voice
The Sun is in the South
Composer(s): Beverly Benjamin Cole
Song(s): The Sun is in the South (1957 Setting), The Sun is in the South (Later Romantic Setting), The Sun is in the South (Earlier Romantic Setting), The Sun is in the South (#4), The Sun is in the South (#5)
Voice Type: High, Medium, and Low Voice
4 Songs on Psalms
Composer(s): Beverly Benjamin Cole
Song(s): Psalm 1, Psalm 25, Psalm 54, Psalm 23
Voice Type: High, Medium, and Low Voice
Tryin' to Make Heaven My Home
Composer(s): Uzee Brown, Jr.
Song(s): My God Is So High, Over My Head, I Hear Music in the Air, Done Made My Vow To de Lord, Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning, I'm Trampin', Gonna Shout All Over God's Heaven, I Want To Die Easy When I Die, Great Day!
Voice Type: Medium Voice
Buy via GIA PublicationsLyric Suite - Solos for Medium Voice
Composer(s): Robert Morris
Song(s): I. Dramatic Declaration: Rockin' Jerusalem!
II. Gospel Blues: What Shall I Do?
III. Humoresque: Scandaliz' My Name!
IV. Lament: This May Be My Las' Time
V. Juba: Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit
Voice Type: Medium Voice
Buy via GIA PublicationsSerenity Prayer
Composer(s): Jerrell R. Gray
Song(s): Serenity Prayer
Voice Type: Low/Med/High Voice
Buy via Composer's WebsiteThe Hidden Words of Baha'u'llab (1977)
Composer(s): Zenobia Powell Perry
Song(s): O son of spirit
O children of men
O son of being
O friends abandon not the everlasting beauty
O companion of my throne
O oppressors on earth withdraw
Voice Type: Soprano
Buy via Jaygayle Music (PDF)Mason Bynes Sheet Music
Contact the ComposerThen, Here and Now
Composer(s): Rosephanye Powell
Voice Type: Versions for High and Low
Purchase Information via Composer WebsiteMiss Wheatley's Garden
Composer(s): Rosephanye Powell
Voice Type: Versions for High and Low
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