Songs
For works consisting of songs of an individual ethnic group, additional subject entries are made under the headings [ethnic group--place -- Music and Music--place.] For works consisting of songs of a national group, additional subject entry is made under the heading Music--[place.]
Here are entered works for solo voice with secular texts. Works with sacred texts are entered under the heading Sacred songs. For works consisting of art songs, this heading is qualified as appropriate by voice range and specification of accompaniment, e.g. Songs (High voice) with piano; Songs with orchestra; Songs, Unaccompanied. For works consisting of songs of ethnic or national character this heading is qualified by the name of the language or language group and subdivided by place, e.g. Songs, French; Songs, English -- United States; Songs, Slavic.
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Songs -- Algeria
- Songs -- Asia
- Songs -- History and criticism
- Songs -- India
- Songs -- Instrumental settings
- Songs -- Malta
- Songs -- Texts
- Songs -- Tunisia
- Songs -- United States
- Ballads
- Bawdy songs
- Campaign songs
- Children's songs
- Death songs
- Drinking songs
- Erotic songs
- Folk songs
- Humorous songs
- Hunting songs
- National songs
- Political ballads and songs
- Protest songs
- Sacred songs
- Satirical songs
- Sea songs
- Song cycles
- Songbooks
- Songs, Chinese
- Songs, English
- Songs, French
- Songs, Hawaiian
- Songs, Irish
- Songs, Japanese
- Songs, Latin (Medieval and modern)
- Songs, Provençal
- Songs, Tamil
- Songs, Telugu
- Songs, Yiddish
- Students' songs
- Topical songs
- War songs
- Work songs
- Arias
- Ariettas
- Art songs
- Lieder
- Solo songs
- Solo vocal music, Secular
- Songs with various acc.
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Somewhere (piano-vocal setting by Foster of a poem by Barnes; New York: W. A. Pond and Co., c1917), by Fay Foster and Djuna Barnes (page images at HathiTrust)- Raise the Flag and Other Patriotic Canadian Songs and Poems (Toronto: Rose Pub. Co., 1891) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Album de Chansons Arabes, Mauresques et Kabyles (lyrics in French; Paris: S. Richault, n.d.), by Francisco Salvador-Daniel (page images at HathiTrust)
- Album de Chansons Arabes, Mauresques et Kabyles (lyrics in French; Paris: S. Richault, n.d.), by Francisco Salvador-Daniel (page images at HathiTrust)
- Head Citations (Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 2002), by Kenneth Goldsmith (HTML here at Penn)
- Album de Chansons Arabes, Mauresques et Kabyles (lyrics in French; Paris: S. Richault, n.d.), by Francisco Salvador-Daniel (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Rakish Rhymer: or Fancy Man's Own Songster and Reciter ("Lutetia" small limited edition; 1917) (HTML and PDF page images at horntip.com)
- The Baby's Opera: A Book of Old Rhymes with New Dresses (London: F. Warne and Co., n.d.), by Walter Crane, contrib. by Edmund Evans (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- The Bubble Book (without accompanying sound recording; New York: Harper and Bros., c1917), by Ralph Mayhew and Burges Johnson, illust. by Rhoda Chase (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- Hymns for the Amusement of Children (based on the 1771 and 1775 editions), by Christopher Smart (illustrated HTML at Wikisource)
- Little Songs of Long Ago: More Old Nursery Rhymes (c1912), contrib. by Alfred Moffat, illust. by H. Willebeek le Mair (page images at LOC)
- Mother Truth's Melodies: Common Sense for Children, A Kindergarten (new and enlarged edition; Chicago: Fairbanks and Palmer Pub. Co., 1887), by Mrs. E. P. Miller
- Our Old Nursery Rhymes (c1911), contrib. by Alfred Moffat, illust. by H. Willebeek le Mair (page images at LOC)
- The Pet: The Sixth Bubble Book (without accompanying sound recording; New York: Harper and Bros., c1919), by Ralph Mayhew and Burges Johnson, illust. by Rhoda Chase (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- The Baby's Bouquet: A Fresh Bunch of Rhymes and Tunes (London and New York: F. Warne and Co., n.d.), by Walter Crane, contrib. by Lucy Crane and Edmund Evans
- A Book for Boys and Girls, by John Bunyan (PDF at chapellibrary.org)
- Finger Plays for Nursery and Kindergarten, by Emilie Poulsson, contrib. by Cornelia C. Roeske, illust. by L. J. Bridgman (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
- Mother's Songs, Games, and Stories (student's edition; London: William Rice, 1920), by Friedrich Fröbel, trans. by Henrietta Frances Lord and Emily Lord (PDF files at Roehampton)
- Some Nursery Rhymes of Belgium, France and Russia (London: A. and C. Black, 1917), by L. Edna Walter, contrib. by Lucy Etheldred Broadwood and J.-B. Weckerlin, illust. by Alfred Bastien and Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel
- The Songs and Music of Friedrich Froebel's Mother Play (Mutter und Kose Lieder) (London: Edward Arnold, 1898), by Friedrich Fröbel, ed. by Susan E. Blow (PDF files at Roehampton)
- The Songs and Music of Friedrich Froebel's Mother Play (Mutter und Kose Lieder) (New York and London: D. Appleton, c1895), by Friedrich Fröbel, ed. by Susan E. Blow (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Training the Little Home Maker, by Kitchengarden Methods (1912), by Mabel Louise Keech (searchable page images at Wisconsin)
- Take Me Home to Die (arranged for guitar by Laurence; New York: Firth, Pond and Co., c1852), by I. B. Woodbury and G. F. H. Laurence (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Tankard of Ale: An Anthology of Drinking Songs (London: Erskine Macdonald, ca. 1919), by Theodore Maynard (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Briefe Discourse of the True (But Neglected) Use of Charact'ring the Degrees, by Thomas Ravenscroft (HTML and page images at pbm.com)
- Fight on Sisters, and Other Songs for Liberation (1978), by Carol Hanisch (page images at Duke)
- Listen to the Mocking Bird: Satiric Songs to Tunes You Know (Washington, NJ: Times Change Press, c1973), by Tuli Kupferberg (page images at HathiTrust)
- Real Sailor-Songs (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1891), ed. by John Ashton
- The Songs of Charles Dibdin, Chronologically Arranged, With Notes, Historical, Biographical, and Critical; and The Music of the Best and Most Popular of the Melodies, with New Piano-Forte Accompaniments; To Which is Prefixed a Memoir of the Author (2 volumes; London: How and Parsons, 1842), by Charles Dibdin, contrib. by George Hogarth
- The Songs of Charles Dibdin, Chronologically Arranged, With Notes, Historical, Biographical, and Critical; and The Music of the Best and Most Popular of the Melodies, with New Piano-Forte Accompaniments; To Which is Prefixed a Memoir of the Author (2 volumes; London: G. H. Davidson, 1848), by Charles Dibdin, contrib. by George Hogarth
- The City of Joy: A Song Cycle (score for high voice and piano; Boston: O. Ditson Co.; et al., c1916), by Deems Taylor and Charles Hanson Towne (page images at HathiTrust)
- The City of Joy: A Song Cycle (score for medium voice and piano; Boston: O. Ditson Co.; et al., c1916), by Deems Taylor and Charles Hanson Towne (PDF files at Rochester)
- The Book of a Thousand Songs: The World's Largest Collection of the Songs of the People, Containing More than a Thousand Old and New Favorites (New York: Mumil Pub. Co., c1918), ed. by Albert E. Wier
- Minstrel Songs, Old and New: A Collection of World-Wide, Famous Minstrel and Plantation Songs, Including the Most Popular of the Celebrated Foster Melodies, Arranged With Piano-Forte Accompaniment (Boston et al.: O. Ditson and Co., c1882), contrib. by Stephen Collins Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
- Minstrel Songs, Old and New: A Collection of World-Wide, Famous Minstrel and Plantation Songs, Including the Most Popular of the Celebrated Foster Melodies, Arranged With Piano-Forte Accompaniment (Boston et al.: O. Ditson and Co., c1910), contrib. by Stephen Collins Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Garland of New Songs: Allen A-Dale; Paddy Carey; Ma Chere Amie; William Tell; Oh the Moment Was Sad; The Cottage on the Moor (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Garland of New Songs: Bess the Gawkie; Blythe Was She; Yorkshireman in London; Pray Goody (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Garland of New Songs: God Save the King; Rule, Britannia; The Jubilee; General Wolfe; The Trumpet Sounds a Victory (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Garland of New Songs: O How I Love Somebody; The Pretty Maid Milking Her Cow; Of A' the Airts the Win' Can Blaw; The Banks of the Dee (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Garland of New Songs: Sweet Willy o' the Green; The Yorkshire Concert; The Yorkshire Irishman; The Woodland Maid (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Garland of New Songs: The Battle of the Nile; Tom Starboard' The Sailor's Adieu; Tom Bowling; True Courage; The Sea Boy (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Garland of New Songs: The Bay of Biscay; O, All's Well; Poor Joe the Marine; The Mid Watch; The Sea-Boy; The Sailor's Adieu (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Garland of New Songs: The Bonny Scotch Lad and His Bonnet So Blue; The Blackbird; My Sailor Dear Shall Guard my Pillow; Bundle of Truths (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Garland of New Songs: The Death of Nelson; Lochaber; The Yellow-Hair'd Laddie; Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad; The Yorkshire Concert (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Garland of New Songs: The Fairest of The Fair; Here's a Health, &c.; The Sea-Boy; Giles Scroggins' Ghost; My Only Jo' an' Dearie O; The Beautiful Maid; The Royal Love Letter (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Garland of New Songs: The Storm, by Mrs. Robinson; A Free Mason's Song; My Eye and Betty Martia (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Garland of New Songs: Tweed Side; My Nanie, O; Highland Laddie; Up in the Morning Early; Flowers of the Forest (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Album de Chansons Arabes, Mauresques et Kabyles (lyrics in French; Paris: S. Richault, n.d.), by Francisco Salvador-Daniel (page images at HathiTrust)
- Songs of Old Ireland: A Collection of Fifty Irish Melodies (1882), by Alfred Perceval Graves and Charles Villiers Stanford (sheet music images at libraryireland.com)
- The Yosl and Chana Mlotek Yiddish Song Collection at the Workers Circle (lyrics and commentary from 5 books: Pearls of Yiddish Song; Songs of Generations; We Are Here; Mir Trogn a Gezang; and Yontefdike Teg), ed. by Eleanor G. Mlotek, Joseph Mlotek, and Malke Gottlieb (illustrated HTML at yiddishsongs.org)
- Michigan's Favorite College Songs (sixth edition; Ann Arbor: University music house, c1921), ed. by Minnie Maes Root, Earl Vincent Moore, and Roy Dickinson Welch (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
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