The Newberry Library, Chicago, contains a distinguished music collection, rare book, manuscript, and print holdings, and archives relevant both to the United States (and its Indian populations) and to the city of Chicago. Thus it is understandable that a small special codicil, which entered the Library holdings in 1948, should have entered as an inconspicuous item in a splendid context. It was a collection of songs, centering in American twentieth-century works and containing an unprecedented emphasis on music by women composers—characteristics not considered worthy of special attention at that time. But changing focus within musical scholarship has brought about a volte-face; and it is now quite respectable to display interest in music by American, twentieth-century, and even women composers. It is therefore likely that this collection will prove of considerable interest at this time.
The collection is the library of songs that comprised the working music of Janet Fairbank (1903-1947); her library reflects her special interests and her energy in pursuing them. As now housed in the Newberry Library, it consists of twenty-five boxes: eight American, five French, two German, two British, one Spanish, one Scandinavian, Russian and Hungarian, and one Italian, in addition to three boxes of English and French anthologies, one of miscellaneous arias, songs, and vocalises, and one box of orchestrations. The collection remains uncatalogued.1
Janet Fairbank was a member of a wealthy and culturally prominent Chicago family. Her grandfather was Nathaniel K. Fairbank, called a "pioneer Chicago millionaire" (Gold Dust cleanser); and her father, Kellogg Fairbank, who graduated from Harvard (A.B., 1890 and LL.B., 1893), had been admitted to the Illinois bar. In 1900 (at the age of thirty-one) he married Janet Ayer. Janet Fairbank was the first of three children and their only daughter. Janet Ayer Fairbank, the mother, was an active political figure, a worker for women's suffrage and a member of the Illinois Democratic National Committee from 1924. She was also an author (plays and novels, the most famous of which was probably The Bright Land). She outlived her daughter by four years. Her sister, Margaret Ayer Barnes, won a Pulitzer Prize with her novel Years of Grace. Young Janet seems to have entered a somewhat competitive and highly social world with intelligence and determination; she attended Radcliffe College, was an excellent student, and was graduated cum laude in 1923.
Fairbank as a young woman bore both the advantages and the burdens of her position and wealth. The burdens were not to be underestimated: she was of undeniable intelligence and seriousness, and pursued a career as a singer in the shadow of her famous mother and aunt while also facing a prejudice against women of means who seek a place on the stage, a prejudice in full cry in the thirties. Her preparation was extensive and thorough; her desire for excellence was unremitting. Her debut in Chicago in 1931 was followed by a debut in Europe in 1932 and an initial appearance in opera (as Zerlina in Don Giovanni) in 1933. She appeared with the San Carlo Opera in Chicago in 1934 and with the Chicago Opera in 1934-35 and in 1940-41.
Her large scrapbook (in the Special Collections section of the Newberry Library) records her career through the late 1940s. She continued to study (with Richard De Young of Chicago after 1932), purchased full-page ads in Musical America, and seems to have sung whenever and wherever she could; but she had to bear the contumely of being reviewed in the Society section as often as in the music pages.
Her intelligence seems to have surpassed her musical gifts. Many of the reviews and the letters of appreciation so carefully pasted into her scrapbook were written by family friends and connections (a lovely example, from Thornton Wilder, is datelined "June 6, 1934—The Best University"). But one, by the critic Karleton Hackett, in the Chicago Evening Post of November 20, 1931, is probably an accurate assessment of her performing stature:
The voice is light, of mezzo-soprano timbre, without natural warmth and not great range nor volume, but clear and true. . . . She thinks primarily the word values . . . without the keen sense for the melodic line or for the beauty of the tone.
It is easy to speculate that her perceptive intelligence, faced with unyielding facts of her own limitations and the impossibility of critical success in operatic and standard concert repertoire along with her financial independence, led her to the espousal of the cause of contemporary music. She set herself to obtain and to study the works of American (and some other) composers; it is said that she was of substantial financial support to more than a few, and there can be no question of her moral support. In eight New York programs, Janet Fairbank premiered over one hundred American songs.
The task that she set herself required imagination, persistence, courage, discernment, and financial resources—none of these guaranteed to singers of perhaps more abundant vocal gifts. She had to search out composers and their materials, buy manuscripts (or borrow them and have them photographed or photostated), sift out a huge amount of music unknown to her or anybody else, and hire pianists to work over songs with her—but the winnowing process was her own and the judgments were her own. The Newberry Library notice of July 1948 states that she "studied over 3,000 compositions" central to her interests.
I remember Fairbank in the early and mid-forties, coming to our apartment on the south side of Chicago with a pile of music and singing through it with my mother (whose unparalleled reputation as a sight-reader had led Fairbank to her); in those sessions I first heard the songs of over two dozen Americans (at a conservative estimate) from Charles Ives, Henry Hadley, and Mrs. H.H.A. Beach, to Paul Bowles, Irwin Fischer, Mary Howe, John Cage, Elliott Carter, Ned Rorem, and many others. And I heard also the splendid Fables of Fontaine settings by Marcelle de Manziarly and other French twentieth-century music. (Fairbank's devotion to French song was second only to her devotion to American song—she gave an all-Poulenc program in Chicago in 1946.) In her sessions with my mother, Fairbank was extremely business-like, never unpleasant but certainly matter-of-fact rather than warm, and more able to project determination than enthusiasm. She did not comment upon the songs, nor did she seek comments from my mother (who saved them for later family discussion). Difficulties did not phase her; she was obviously highly motivated and well disciplined. Many of the songs she brought several times; others she read through only once or twice.
About 130 composers are represented in the Collection, by far the greatest number with unpublished works (such composers as Bacon and Ives—whose works together make up a majority of the published music in the collection—published their own music). Much of it bears rehearsal marks that are worth studying. And several bear personal inscriptions as well, some of them testifying to the warm regard of the composers for their singing advocate. Fairbank's dedication is mirrored perhaps the most strongly in the number of copies in her own hand (in several cases a second copy in another key). But many manuscripts are clearly in the hands of the composers—the originals certainly include Bauer, Becker, Carpenter, Cage, Elwell, and Thomson, among others.
The Collection represents a remarkable achievement for one individual. Fairbank's judgment was keen and her programming (which should be studied in tandem with the music) amazingly accurate as a judgment of musical value. Her untimely death at forty-four kept her from seeing those values confirmed in the careers of the composers she aided. Her bequest to the Newberry Library may well clarify some of the sifting evaluation of the post-war years. The legacy of Janet Fairbank is more than the shell of a collection: she was an activator in that process and may well have exercised a considerable influence. We are in her debt.
PRELIMINARY LIST OF WORKS IN THE FAIRBANK COLLECTION
The list of works in the Fairbank Collection is presented exactly as it is housed. To change Hicks, P.G. to Glanville-Hicks, P(eggy), for example, or to exclude Hicks, Reinecke, Shepherd, and Shaw from the list because they more properly belong under non-American categories, would make the music impossible to find. Details are as accurate as a preliminary study can make them, but corrections will doubtless follow upon substantial study of the collection.
Abbreviations used for purposes of this list are designed to reflect the large number of manuscript works in the collection, and to distinguish between original and duplicated materials, and, among the latter, between photostats (presumably made by Fairbank) and ozalid or planographic copies (presumably made by the composers). A few proof sheet copies are also in the collection. The abbreviations are:
Ms: manuscript (not necessarily autograph)
oz: ozalid or other planographic copy of a manuscript
ph: photostat
neg: negative print
©: copyright (date), indicating that the work is published
*: inscribed to Fairbank by composer
**: dedicated to Fairbank
| Allanbrook, Douglas | Ash Wednesday—Aria from the Cantata (Eliot) Ms., 1947 |
| Ames, Wm. T. | Dream Pang (Frost) oz., n.d. |
| Interpreter (Johns) oz., n.d. | |
| Judgment (Benet) oz., n.d. | |
| Rapid Transit (no author given) oz., n.d.* | |
| To the thawing wind (Frost) Ms., n.d.* | |
| Antheil, George | Five songs—1919-1920 (Crapsey) 1919-20, ©1934 |
| Bacon, Ernst | Ten songs (Whitman, Goethe, Lenan, Rückert, Eichendorff, Licher, Lithe) ©1928 |
| Eight songs from Walt Whitman, ©1930 | |
| Bows and arrows (no author given) oz., n.d. | |
| Adam and Eve (American folk) ©1946, 2 copies | |
| Lonesome Grove (American folk) ©1946 | |
| Four songs for soprano (Shakespeare, Lewis, Millay) ©1946 | |
| Little Mohee (On Top of Old Smoky, folk song) n.d. | |
| Along unpaved roads (American folk) ©1944, 8 songs | |
| Sucking cider and sinful shoe, Ms., n.d. | |
| Of a feather (Welch) Ms., n.d., 5 songs | |
| Five poems by Emily Dickinson, ©1944 | |
| It's all I have to bring today, Ms., 2 copies | |
| The lamb (Blake) Ms., 1947** | |
| Songs to Emily Dickinson, oz., n.d. | |
| Ballantine, Edward | Four lyrical satires: Upon my bed of pain, The flower loves the nightingale, Clouds, Come out, my love, into the moon light, Ms., ©1945, 2 copies of songs 1 and 3 |
| Barber, Samuel | The daisies (Stephens) ©1936 |
| With rue my heart is laden (Housman) ©1936 | |
| Bessie bobtail (Stephens) ©1936 | |
| The queen's face on the summery corn (Horan) Ms., ©1944, 2 copies | |
| Rain has fallen (Joyce) ©1939 | |
| I hear an army (Joyce) ©1939 | |
| A nun takes the veil (Hopkins) ©1941 | |
| Sure on this shining night (Agee) ©1941 | |
| Dover beach (Arnold) ©1936 | |
| Bauer, Marion | The harp (no author given) Ms., n.d. |
| To losers (Frost) n.d.* | |
| Midsummer dreams (Fletcher) ©1924 | |
| Beach, Mrs. H.H.A. | The year's at the spring (Browning) ©1900 and 1928 |
| Becker, John | The pool (H.D.) Ms., n.d. |
| The sea (H.D.) Ms., n.d. | |
| 3 short songs (M.C. Becker) Ms., n.d.,** 2 copies | |
| Psalm of love (Baum, trans. Bithell) Ms., n.d. | |
| A song (Joyce) Ms., n.d. | |
| Separation on the River Kiang (Richaku, trans. Pound) Ms., n.d. | |
| 4 poems from the Japanese, Ms. | |
| Beecher, Carl | Thistle down (Crew, trans. Page) ©1923 |
| Beeson, Jack | Three songs (Blake) oz., 1945 (2 copies of song 3) |
| Never seek to tell thy love (Blake) Ms., 1945 | |
| Behrend, Jeanne | Advice to a girl (Teasdale) oz., 1943 |
| Five songs (Teasdale) oz., 1932, 1933, 1938 | |
| A minor bird (R. Frost) oz., 1943 | |
| Plea for grace (Krause) oz., 1942 | |
| Proche (Quennell) oz., 1940 | |
| Bergsma, William | Six songs, oz., 2 copies |
| Bernstein, Leonard | I hate music, ©1943 |
| Birch, Helen Louise | A creed is a rod (Swinburne) Ms., n.d. |
| Moods (Yeats) ©1915 | |
| Requiescat (Arnold) ©1915 | |
| Aedh laments the loss of love (Yeats) ©1915 | |
| Cyclamen (Field) Ms., n.d. | |
| Atalanta (Swinburne) Ms. | |
| Bonvalot, Antony | Carmen (XI) (Latin, Horatio) Ms., 1942 |
| Bosmaus, Arthur | 2 Folksongs from the planet Mars, ©1946 |
| Bowles, Paul | In the woods (no author given) ph., 1944 |
| They can not stop death (Massey) ph., 1944 | |
| Heaven grass (Williams) ph., n.d. | |
| A little closer please (Saroyan) ©1941 | |
| Cuatro canciones de Garcia Lorca, ph., 1943 | |
| Evening (Hepburn) oz., 1941 | |
| Violet (Hepburn) oz., 1941 | |
| On a quiet conscience (Charles I) Ms., 1945 | |
| Sugar in the cane (Williams) ©1946 | |
| Cabin (Williams) ©1946 | |
| Blue bell mountain (J. Bowles) ph., n.d. | |
| Song of an old woman (J. Bowles) ph., 1942 | |
| Once a lady was here, oz., 2 copies | |
| Memnon (Cocteau) ph., neg., 1935 | |
| Le sourire (Cocteau) ph., neg., 1935 | |
| In the platinum forest (no author given) oz., 1932 | |
| Ballade (P. Bowles) oz., 1945 | |
| Song for my sister (Ford) oz., 1943 | |
| This place of fire (D.H. Lawrence) ph., neg., 1945 | |
| Valse (no author given) ph., neg., n.d. | |
| Lonesome man (Williams) ph., n.d., 2 copies | |
| Three, oz., and proof sheets, 1946, ©1947, 2 copies | |
| Stream (Hepburn) oz., 1941 | |
| American folk songs (W.P.A. project) oz., n.d. | |
| David (F. Frost) ©1945 | |
| Night without sleep (Ford) ph., 1943 | |
| When I die (no author given) ph., n.d. | |
| 3 songs (Anon. & O'Sullivan) oz., n.d. | |
| Bricken, Carl | Sagesse (Verlaine) oz., n.d. |
| Il pleure dans mon coeur (Verlaine) oz., n.d. | |
| Le ciel (Verlaine) Ms., n.d. | |
| Fate, o miller (RLS) Ms., n.d. | |
| The far-farer (RLS) ph., n.d. | |
| Peace my heart (Tagore) Ms., n.d. | |
| Britain, Radie | Stillness (Lester Luther) oz., n.d. |
| Withered flowers (Schreyvogt) ©1926 | |
| Nirvana (Wheelock) ©1927 | |
| Cage, John | The wonderful widow of Eighteen Springs, Ms., 1942** |
| Carpenter, John Allen | The cock shall crow (R.L. Stevenson) ©1912 |
| The Lawd is smiling through the do, ©1918 | |
| When the misty shadows glide, ©1912, 2 copies | |
| The green river (Lord Alfred Douglas) Ms., ©1912, 2 copies | |
| Dansons la gigue (Verlaine) ©1912 | |
| Il pleure dans mon coeur (Verlaine) ©1912 | |
| Gitanjali (Tagore) ©1914, 6 songs, 2 copies | |
| Berceuse de guerre (Cammaerts) ©1918 | |
| Les silhouettes (Wilde) ©1913 | |
| To a young gentleman (Confucius, trans. H.A. Giles) Ms., 1916 | |
| Water colors (4 Chinese poems) ©1916 | |
| Le petit cimetière (Havet) ph. | |
| Les cheminées rouge (Havet) ph., 1934 | |
| Cradle song (Wm. Blake) ©1912 | |
| Serenade (Sassoon) ©1921 | |
| Khaki Sammy (J.A. Carpenter) ©1917 | |
| May, the maiden (Lanier) ©1912 | |
| Home road (J.A. Carpenter) ©1917, 2 copies | |
| Slumber song (Sassoon) 1920, ©1921 | |
| On a screen (No. 1 of Water colors, R.V., Li Po) Ms., n.d., ©1916 | |
| The player queen (Yeats) ©1915 | |
| The day is no more (Tagore) ©1915 | |
| Her voice (Wilde) ©1913 | |
| Looking glass river (Stevenson) ©1912 | |
| When little boys sing (John & Rue Carpenter) bound, ©1907 | |
| Improving songs for anxious children, bound, ©1907, 2 copies | |
| Carter, Elliott | Dust of snow (Frost) 1942, ©1947 |
| The rose family, Ms., 1942, ©1947, 2 copies | |
| Voyage (Hart Crane) ©1945* | |
| Cascarino, Romeo | Seven songs (Teasdale, Frost, Henrick) oz., 1941 |
| de Cevee, Alice | Shadows (Paula Long) ph., n.d. |
| The owl and the pussy cat (Lear) ©1946 | |
| The flight (Teasdale) ph., n.d. | |
| Deserted farm (F. Frost) Ms., n.d. | |
| Down by the Sally Gardens (Yeats) ©1941 | |
| Anniversary (Paula Long) ©1940 | |
| Chanler, Theodore | The flight (L. Feeney) oz., 1944 |
| The lamb (Blake) ©1946 | |
| Memory (Blake) oz., ©1946 | |
| The doves (L. Feeney) oz., n.d. | |
| Eight epitaphs (De la Mare) oz., ©1939 | |
| I rise when you enter (L. Feeney) oz., 1942, ©1945, 2 copies | |
| These my Ophelia (MacLeish) oz., n.d. | |
| The children (L. Feeney) oz., 1942, ©1946, 3 copies | |
| Chadwick, G.W. | Danza (Arlo Bates) ©1885 |
| Citkowitz, Israel | Five songs (Joyce) ©1930 |
| Cole, Rossetter G. | Love's invocation (Phoebe Cary) ©1922* |
| Cowell, Henry | Little black boy (Blake) oz., 1946 |
| The donkey (Chesterton) oz., 1946 | |
| Three anti-modernist songs (ed. Slonimsky) oz., 1938 | |
| Creston, Paul | Sonnet I (Ficke) Ms., n.d. |
| Sonnet II (Ficke) Ms., n.d. | |
| Three sonnets (Ficke) oz., 1936 | |
| Psalm XXIII (proof sheets) 1945 | |
| Crist, Bainbridge | Into a ship dreaming (De la Mare) ©1918 |
| Coloured stars (Chinese, trans. E. Powys Mathers) ©1921 | |
| De Lamarter, Eric | Gifts (Teasdale) ©1920 |
| Love-free (Teasdale) ©1920 | |
| Air impromptu (Piper) Ms., n.d. | |
| Dello Joio, Norman | Milldoors (Sandburg) oz., n.d. |
| Diamond, David | David mourns for Absalom, ph., ph. neg., 1946, 2 copies |
| Brigid's song (Joyce) ph., ph. neg., 1946, 2 copies | |
| Seven songs (copies of all but Billy in the Darbies; Cummings, Mansfield, La Fontaine, Stringham, McCullers) ©1946 | |
| To Lucasta, on going to the wars (Lovelace) oz., 1944 | |
| Five songs (Shakespeare) ©1945 | |
| Epitaph (Melville) oz., 1945 | |
| Music when soft voices die (Shelley) ©1944 | |
| Let nothing disturb thee (Sr. Theresa of Avila) ©1946 | |
| On death (Clare) ©1944 | |
| César (Valéry) oz., 1940 | |
| Dougherty, Celius | The first Christmas (E. Fleming) oz., n.d. |
| Pied beauty (Hopkins) Ms., n.d. | |
| The Song of the Jasmin (Arabian Nights) oz., n.d. | |
| Pianissimo (Collins) n.d. | |
| Heaven-Haven (Hopkins) Ms., n.d. | |
| Duke, John | XXth Century (Hillyer) oz., 1935 |
| Dirge (Crapsey) oz., n.d. | |
| Catalog (Rosalie Moore) oz., n.d. | |
| At the aquarium (Max Eastman) oz., n.d. | |
| Dead kitten (Hay) oz., n.d. | |
| My soul is an enchanted boat (Shelley) oz., n.d. | |
| To Karen, singing (Duke) oz., 1944, ©1946, 2 copies | |
| Rapunzel (Crapsey) oz., n.d. | |
| Wild swans (Millay) oz., n.d. | |
| Loveliest of trees (Housman) ©1934 | |
| Bells in the rain (Wylie) oz., 1945 | |
| Eakin, Vera | Flamenco (Hitchcock) ©1937 |
| I have seen silence (Middleton) oz., n.d. | |
| Wind and girl (Cobham) oz., n.d. | |
| Edmunds, John | Absalom (Gleason) oz., n.d. |
| The conclusion (Raleigh) oz., 1943 | |
| Elegy & Ground (Purcell Airs) oz. | |
| Morning hymn (Purcell Airs) oz. | |
| Evening hymn (Purcell Airs) oz. | |
| Here the deities approve (Purcell Airs) oz. | |
| Isle of Portland (Housman) oz., 1935, 2 copies | |
| Milkmaids (Anon.) oz., 1946 | |
| The shepherd boy sings (Bunyan) oz., 1946** | |
| Ballad of the cherry tree (Anon.) oz., 1938 | |
| Heart of the woman (Yeats) oz., n.d. | |
| The falcon (Anon.) oz., 1938, 2 copies, 1 bound | |
| Jerusalem (Blake) oz., 1942, 2 copies, 1 bound | |
| The cuckoo (Shakespeare) oz., 1936, bound | |
| Dirge (Landor) oz., 1939, bound | |
| The lonely (AE) oz., 1935, 2 copies, 1 bound | |
| The still river (Scottish) oz., 1939, bound | |
| Second birth (Gleason) oz., n.d., bound | |
| The Christ Child (Southwell) oz., 1940, bound | |
| O Death, rock me asleep (Anne Boleyn) oz., 1939, bound | |
| Edward (Border Ballads) oz., 1939 | |
| Mother, I cannot mind the wheel (Landor) oz., 1939 | |
| Loveliest of trees (Housman) oz., 1935 | |
| Proche (Quennell) oz., 1940 | |
| The pigs (De la Mare) oz., 1944-45-46 | |
| Elwell, Herbert | The ousel-cock (Shakespeare) oz., n.d. |
| Renouncement (Meynell) ©1942 | |
| Glittering grief (Lowe) oz., n.d. | |
| In the mountains (Chang Yu, trans. Pope and Adams) oz., ©1946 | |
| Suffolk owl (Shakespeare) oz., n.d. | |
| Service of all the dead (D.H. Lawrence) oz., n.d. | |
| Music I heard (Aiken) oz., n.d. | |
| Engel, Carl | The sea shell (A. Lowell) ©1911 |
| Farwell, Arthur | As if the sea (E. Dickinson) ph., 1936 |
| Unto me (E. Dickinson) ph. neg., 1936 | |
| With a flower (E. Dickinson) ph. neg., 1940 | |
| Song of Proserpine (Shelley) 1943 | |
| Fenner, Beatrice | I wonder, ©1925 |
| Fine, Vivian | Daybreak (Donne) oz., n.d. |
| Spring's welcome (Lyly) oz., 1937 | |
| Finney, Ross Lee | Poor Richard (B. Franklin) oz., 1946, 7 songs, bound |
| Pot of earth (MacLeish) oz., 1934, 5 songs, bound | |
| Fischer, Irwin | Sea-bird (Percy) Ms., 1933 |
| Song of the willow branches (M. Fischer) oz., 1931 | |
| Newcomer (Fitch) oz., n.d. | |
| You were glad tonight (Sassoon) oz., n.d. | |
| Stampede (Seeley) oz., 1937 | |
| Foch, Dirk | Chinese ode (Hafiz-Bethge, trans. Mattullath) ©1920 |
| Three moods (Hatis) ©1926 | |
| Forrest, Hamilton | Song of Loneliness (Tietjens) ph. neg., n.d. |
| An arabesque, ©1926 | |
| Aubade (Darenant) Ms., n.d. | |
| Out of the blackness (Dawson) Ms., n.d. | |
| Vanished love (Dawson) Ms., n.d. | |
| The bargain (Sidney) Ms., n.d. | |
| Foss, Lucas | Where the bee sucks (Shakespeare) oz., 1940 |
| Fuleihan, Anis | To the young prince (Brooke) ©1944 |
| Galajikian, Florence | Speak to me love (Tagore) Ms., n.d. |
| Interpretations (Aikins) Ms., n.d. | |
| Ganz, Rudolph | A memory (Breid) 1918, ©1919 |
| Gardiner, Julian | Afterwards (Hardy) oz., n.d. |
| An east end curate, oz. | |
| Had I known (Hardy) oz., n.d. | |
| The oxen (Hardy) oz., n.d. | |
| Shepherdess sons (Hardy) oz., n.d. | |
| The second visit (Hardy) oz., n.d. | |
| Proud songsters (Hardy) oz., n.d. | |
| Exhortation (Hardy) oz., n.d. | |
| Midnight on the G.W.R. (Hardy) oz., n.d. | |
| Weathers (Hardy) oz., n.d. | |
| Gassman, Remi | Serenade (K. Kilmer) ©1947 |
| Glazer, Frank | Yellow leaves (Emmet) ©1941 |
| I fear thy kisses (Shelley) ©1939 | |
| Golde, Walter | To an invalid (MacDougall) ©1924 |
| Grant-Schaefer, G.A. | In the moonlight (French folk) ©1922 |
| Down to the crystal streamlet (French folk) ©1921, 2 copies | |
| Griffes, Charles | Upon their grave (Heine, trans. Untermeyer) ©1941 |
| Elves (Eichendorff, trans. Untermeyer) ©1941 | |
| Half-ring moon (Tabb) ©1941 | |
| By a lovely forest pathway (Lenan, trans. Chapman) ©1909 | |
| In a myrtle shade (Blake) ©1918 | |
| Symphony in yellow (Wilde) ©1915 | |
| Thy dark eyes to mine (MacLeod) ©1918 | |
| Hadley, Henry | The time of parting (Tagane) ©1921 |
| My true love (Sydney) ©1924 | |
| Sentimental colloquy (Verlaine, trans. Mattullath) ©1923 | |
| Hageman, Richard | At the well (Tagore) ©1919 |
| Miranda (Belloc) ©1940 | |
| Do not go, my love (Tagore) ©1917, 2 copies | |
| Hall, Betty S. | Lost (no author given) Ms., n.d. |
| Harris, Roy | La primavera (Spanish folk, trans. Lummis) oz., 1942 |
| Evening song (Tennyson) ©1942 | |
| Waitin' (no author given) ©1942 | |
| Harris, Russell | Nocturne ma desert brick yard (Sandburg) Ms., n.d. |
| Harrison, Lou | Sanctus, Ms., oz., 1940, 2 copies |
| Helm, Everett | Prairie waters by night (Sandburg) oz., n.d., 2 copies |
| Eleventh avenue racket (Sandburg) oz., n.d. | |
| Moo! (Sandburg) oz., n.d. | |
| She is not fair (H. Coleridge) oz., n.d. | |
| Romance (RLS) oz., 1941 | |
| Lament (Chatterton) oz., 1941 | |
| It is so long (Cummings) oz., 1946 | |
| If I have made (Cummings) oz., n.d. | |
| Alleluia (Cummings) oz., 1946 | |
| Shall I compare thee (Shakespeare) oz., n.d.** | |
| Henry, Harold | Gather ye rose buds while ye may (Herrick) ©1920 |
| Christmas song (The Barron Bruchlos at the age of five) oz., n.d.* | |
| The child's grace (Herrick) oz., n.d.* | |
| Hicks, P. Glanville | Five songs (Housman) 1945 |
| Hoffman, Adolf G. | A slumber song (Wathall) oz., n.d. |
| Light (Bourdillon) oz., n.d. | |
| Caeli (Bourdillon) oz., n.d. | |
| Hopkinson, Francis | Six songs—Colonial love lyrics, bound |
| Howe, Mary | Innisfree (Yeats) ph., n.d. |
| Ripe apples (Speyer) ©1939 | |
| A strange story (Wylie) oz., ©1947, 2 copies | |
| Fair Annet's song (Wylie) ph. | |
| Hyde, Herbert | Seventeen songs (Aldis) ©1928 |
| Long ago (W.I. Lincoln Adams) ©1916 | |
| Imbrie, Andrew | November song (Person) oz., 1945 |
| Letter from Hawaii (Wm. Meredith) 1946 | |
| Ives, Chas. | 114 songs, 1922, bound |
| 34 songs (New Music, Oct. 1933) 1935, bound | |
| 18 songs (New Music, Oct. 1935) 1933, bound | |
| James, Philip | Transit (Sholl) ©1915 |
| Just, Robert H. | Nine songs of Sappho: Invocation, Moon & Stars, The rose, American song, Long ago, Aphrodite's doves (O'Hara) ©1910 |
| Kernochan, Marshall | A water lily at evening (Bourdillan) Ms., 1908 |
| Lilacs (A. Livingston) | |
| Klein, John | To evening (Hislop) ©1947 |
| Sonnet to the sea (Hislop) ©1947 | |
| Klemm, Gustav | Candles (N. Buckley) ©1939 |
| September day (Teasdale) ©1940 | |
| Kohs, Ellis B. | Three flowers (W.C. Williams) oz., 1946 |
| Lamb, Hubert | Three songs (Yeats, Frost, Housman) oz., 1944* |
| Lamont, Hubert | Music (A. Lowell) Ms., 1940 |
| Nostalgia (A. Lowell) Ms., 1940 | |
| Lenel, Ludwig | Four songs (Fletcher, Skelton, anon., Nashe) oz., n.d. |
| Five songs (Polish folk) oz., 1938-1943* | |
| Lessard, John | Ariel's song (Shakespeare) Ms. |
| Lockwood, Normand | Sitting in a tree (e.e. cummings) oz., 1943 |
| I have painted Elijah (Anon., trans. Harlfeldt) oz., 1943 | |
| Sonnet (e.e. cummings) oz., 1943 | |
| Variations on a popular theme (Fenton) oz., 1943** | |
| The pasture (Frost) oz., 1941 | |
| Because I could not stop for death (E. Dickinson) oz., n.d. | |
| River magic (Byron) oz., 1945 | |
| Love's secret (Blake) Ms., 1943 | |
| Slumber song (Ledoux) oz., 1945, 2 copies | |
| Out of May's shows (Whitman) oz., 1939/1945 | |
| Lee, Adele Bohling | Seal lullaby (Kipling) Ms., 1932 |
| Manning, Kathleen Lockhart | Sketches of Paris (Manning) ©1925, cycle of 6 songs |
| Marshall, Elizabeth C. | My candle (Millay) oz., n.d. |
| Alone (Sassoon) oz., n.d. | |
| When you have left me (Aiken) oz., n.d. | |
| Remembered (Aiken) oz., n.d. | |
| Mitchell, Edward | Loveliest of trees (Housman) oz., n.d. |
| Today's your natal day (C. Rossetti) oz. | |
| In the morning (Housman) oz., 1942 | |
| The fisher in the wood (Staver) oz., n.d. | |
| Mitchell, Leeds | The look (Teasdale) ©1926 |
| Who loves the rain (Shaw) ©1926 | |
| Twilight (Teasdale) ©1926 | |
| Mittler, Franz | Happy ending to a romance (Busch) oz. |
| The last song (no author given) n.d. | |
| In flaming beauty (no author given) n.d. | |
| Secret love (Busch) n.d. | |
| Morning song (no author given) n.d. | |
| A song to May (Morike) ©1924 | |
| Country churches (Snyder) n.d. | |
| Forgive (Busch) n.d. | |
| A happy island (no author given) n.d. | |
| Evensong (Vigilie) n.d. | |
| Over the mountain (Busse) n.d. | |
| Maria Verkundigung (Geigor) ©1921* | |
| Moore, Douglas | 2 songs from The Devil and Daniel Webster—I've got a ram, Goliath (Benet) ©1941, and Now may there be a blessing (Benet) ©1941 |
| Brown penny (Yeats) oz., n.d. | |
| The cuckoo (Shakespeare) oz., n.d. | |
| Not this alone (Underwood) oz., n.d. | |
| Sigh no more, ladies (Shakespeare) oz., n.d. | |
| Come away death (Shakespeare) oz., n.d. | |
| The sea that is my songs (trans. Schaffy) oz., n.d. | |
| 3 divine sonnets (Donne) oz., 1942 | |
| O mistress mine (Shakespeare) oz., n.d. | |
| Blow, blow (Shakespeare) oz., n.d. | |
| Under the greenwood tree (Shakespeare) oz., 1944 | |
| Mopper, Irving | All in one breath (Morton) Ms., n.d. |
| Pierrot (Teasdale) Ms., 1938 | |
| Naginski, Charles | The fog (Sandburg) oz., 1939 |
| 7th Avenue (Rukeyser) oz., 1939 | |
| Nightsong at Amalfi (Teasdale) oz., 1939 | |
| Richard Cory (Robinson) oz., 1939 | |
| The pasture (R. Frost) Ms., 1939 | |
| A bird came down the walk (E. Dickinson) oz., 1940 | |
| Nonsense-alphabet (Lea.) oz., 1939 | |
| Look down, fair moon (Whitman) ©1942 | |
| Under the harvest moon (Sandburg) ©1940 | |
| Norden, Lindsay | The sheep (O'Sullivan) oz., 1942 |
| Feast (Millay) oz., n.d. | |
| Elegy and fair Annette's song (Wylie) Ms., n.d. | |
| Is there a flower (Cummings) oz., n.d. | |
| Can life be a blessing (Dryden) Ms., n.d. | |
| The arrival (Warner) oz., 1940 | |
| Who knows (Cummings) oz., n.d. | |
| Madrigal II (no author given) Ms., n.d. | |
| Ashes of life (Millay) oz., n.d. | |
| Time, I dare thee to discover (Dryden) Ms., n.d. | |
| Praise (O'Sullivan) oz., 1935 | |
| Lacrima Christi (Mannes) oz., 1932 | |
| If there are any heavens (Cummings) oz., 1941 | |
| Embroidery (Prude) oz., 1941 | |
| Lullaby for 1940 children (Ackland) oz., n.d. | |
| There shall be more joy (Ford) ©1938 | |
| This is the shape of the leaf (Aiken) ©1938 | |
| Dirge for the nameless (Prude) ©1945 | |
| Oakes, Isaire Hesse | You spotted snakes (Shakespeare) Ms., n.d. |
| Come into these yellow sands (Shakespeare) Ms., n.d. | |
| Over hill, over dale (Shakespeare) Ms., n.d. | |
| Olmstead, Clarence | Thy sweet singing (Shelley) ©1923, 1939 |
| Osborne, Willson | 5 songs from Chamber Music (Joyce) oz., n.d. |
| Parris, Robert | My garden (Brown) oz., n.d. |
| Silver (De la Mare) oz., 1946 | |
| Song (Crapsey) oz., 1947 | |
| The parting guest (Riley) oz. | |
| Pinkham, Daniel | The falcon (Anon.) oz., 1947** |
| No. 6 of seven epigrams (Hillyer) oz., 1944, rev. 1945 | |
| Psalm 79, oz., n.d. | |
| Nocturne (Hillyer) oz., 1944 | |
| Ave regina coelorum, oz., 1944, rev. 1945 | |
| Heaven-Haven (Hopkins) oz., 1947* | |
| Porter, Quincy | Music when soft voices die (Shelley) oz., n.d. |
| Quashen, Ben | Harlem night song, oz. |
| Summer night (Hughes) oz., n.d. | |
| Dance africaine, oz. | |
| Rachlin, Ezra | Pierrot (Teasdale) oz., ©1947 |
| I shall not care (Teasdale) oz., ©1947 | |
| Raphling, Sam | Dreams in the dusk (Sandburg) Ms., n.d. |
| Between two hills (Sandburg) Ms., n.d. | |
| Read, Gardner | From a lute of jade (Chinese) ©1943, 3 songs |
| Reinecke, Carl | At the seaside (RLS) ©1904 |
| Young night thought (RLS) ©1904 | |
| Bunny rabbit white (Reinick, trans. Traquair) ©1904 | |
| Rogers, James H. | George's song (Goethe, trans. Traquair) ©1904 |
| The time for making songs has come (Hagedorn) ©1919 | |
| Rorem, Ned | Spring (Hopkins) oz., 1947 |
| 7 little prayers (Goodmand) oz., 1946 | |
| Look, stranger at this island (Auden) oz., n.d. | |
| Stopping by woods on a snowy evening (Frost) oz., 1947 | |
| Prayer (Eliot) oz., 1946 | |
| Spring and fall (Hopkins) oz., 1946 | |
| Poem (Goodman) 1947 | |
| A burnt ship (Donne) oz., 1945 | |
| Anniversary (Kubly) oz., 1946 | |
| The knight of the grail (Anon.) oz., 1944 | |
| Alleluia, 1946 | |
| Doll boy (e.e.cummings) oz., 1944 | |
| On a singing girl (Wylie) oz., 1946 | |
| The soul sings (Rorem) oz., 1947 | |
| Catullus: on the burial of his brother (trans. Beardley) oz., 1947 | |
| Love's stricken "Why" (Dickinson) oz., 1947 | |
| Bawling blues (Goodman) oz., n.d. | |
| Epigram (O'Donnell) oz., 1947 | |
| My true love is a bird (no author given) oz., 1944 | |
| Psalm 100, oz., 1945, ©1946, 3 copies | |
| Psalm 120, a song of David, ©1946 | |
| Sacco, John | Never the nightingale (Crapsey) ©1940 |
| Strictly germ-proof (Guiterman) ©1941 | |
| Rapunsel (Crapsey) ©1941 | |
| Let it be forgotten (Teasdale) ©1941 | |
| Saminsky, Lazare | Anne Boleyn's dirge, ©1937 |
| Mary Stuart's farewell to France, ©1937 | |
| Queen Estherka's laugh (Saminsky) ©1937 | |
| Sargent, Paul | Joy ride (Richardson) oz., 1941 |
| River road (Maxwell) oz., n.d. | |
| Scott, Tom | Jenny kissed me (Hunt) oz. |
| Shaw, Martin | Heffle my cuckoo fair (Kipling) ©1919 |
| Schelling, Ernest | Love song (Page) ©1907 |
| Schuman, William | Orpheus with his lute (Shakespeare) ©1944 |
| Shephard, Arthur | The starling lake (O'Sullivan) oz., 1944, 2 copies |
| Bacchus (Sherman) oz., n.d., 2 copies | |
| The fiddlers (De la Mare) oz., n.d. | |
| Slonimsky, N. | Silhouettes (Wilde) ©1927 |
| Smith, Melville | The flight of the moon (Wilde) ©1927 |
| Three songs: Lost, Teamsters farewell, Sketch (Sandburg) Ms., oz., n.d., 2 copies | |
| Smith, T. | Blue squills (Teasdale) Ms., 1943 |
| Sokoloff, Noel | Trail the white rose (Joyce) oz., 1946 |
| Love lyric (Hague) oz., 1943 | |
| Words for music (Ross) oz., 1945 | |
| I would in that sweet bosom be (Joyce) oz., 1946 | |
| Gentle lady (Joyce) oz., 1946 | |
| When the shy star (Joyce) oz., 1946 | |
| Sowerby, Leo | For late autumn (Jeanne De Lamarter) oz., 1941 |
| With strawberries (Henley) ©1925 | |
| He's gone away (folk) n.d. | |
| Stock, Frederick | To a firefly (Holty) ©1932 |
| The letter (no author given) Ms., n.d. | |
| Taylor, Deems | My rose (Stuart) ©1917 |
| The rivals (Stephens) ©1920 | |
| The faithless lover (Belgian folk) ©1920 | |
| The messenger (Stephens) ©1920 | |
| Thomson, Virgil | Film (no author given) ph. and ph. neg., 1930 |
| Air de Phedre (Racine) oz., n.d. | |
| Le singe et le leopard (Fontaine) oz., n.d. | |
| Tout le monde (Jourde Chaleur, Rohan) ph. and ph. neg., 1928 | |
| La valse gregorienne, Ms., 1927 | |
| La belle en dormant (Hugnet) oz., n.d., 4 songs | |
| Mon amour est bon a dire (no author given) Ms., n.d. | |
| Stabat Mater (Jacob) oz., ©1933, 2 copies | |
| Le berceau de Gertrude Stein (Hugnet) ph. neg., 1928 | |
| Triggs, Harold | Nuptial (Bird) oz., n.d. |
| Vanderlip, Ruth Wright | Silver (De la Mare) 1945 |
| Fold song (Self) 1947 | |
| Malediction (Stephens) 1945 | |
| Van Vactor, David | Requiescat (Wilde) oz., n.d.* |
| I know a maiden (Heine, trans. Longfellow) oz., n.d. | |
| How can I sing light-souled and fancy free (Lorenzo dei Medici) oz., n.d. | |
| Wagenaar, Bernard | From a very little sphinx (Millay) ©1926, 7 songs |
| Ward, Robert | Anna Miranda (Benet) oz., 1940 |
| Rain has fallen all the day (Joyce) oz., 1940 | |
| Sorrows of Mydath (Masefield) oz., 1939 | |
| Watts, Winter | Little shepherd's song (Percy) ©1922 |
| Little page's song (Percy) ©1920 | |
| Beloved, it is morn (Hickey) ©1919 | |
| Joy (Teasdale) ©1922 | |
| Westbrook, Helen Searles | Songs of life and love: Alabaster, Hindu cradle song, If you call me (Naidu) ©1941 |
| Wheelock, John H. | Journey's end, Ms. |
| Wilda, Bela | Bishop Hatto (Southey) oz., 1946**, 2 copies |
| The lovely isle (Claudian) Ms., n.d. | |
| A remembered conversation (Prokosch) Ms., n.d. | |
| Song of songs (Partridge) ph., 1930, ©1940 | |
| A dish of peaches in Russia (Stevens) oz., 1946 | |
| My heart (Ramon) Ms., oz., 1945 | |
| Je chante haut pour m'entendre (Viele, trans. Griffin) oz., 1946 | |
| Silver (De la Mare) ph. and ph. neg., 1937 | |
| Flower loft (Walles) oz., 1945 | |
| Solange, the magnolia (Stevens) ph. neg., 1946 | |
| The time (Morton) Ms., 1945 | |
| Invocation (Hundley) Ms., 1939 | |
| King's garden (Speyer) oz., 1945* | |
| Madame Sosostris (Eliot) Ms., 1943 | |
| Out in the garden (Mansfield) Ms., 1943 | |
| Peace on earth (Anon.) Ms., 1940 | |
| Flow, oh my tears, Ms., 1941, 2 copies | |
| Summer the lovely (Millay) Ms., n.d. | |
| Winslow, Richard K. | Stopping by woods on a snowy evening (Frost) oz., 1943 |
| Wolfe, Jacques | Short'nin bread (Woud) ©1928 |
1The Library acquisition notice of July 1948, announcing the receipt of the collection, numbers the items at about 1500 works; it states also that in addition to the songs, the bequest included "thirty grand opera scores, some of them rare." These have evidently been absorbed into the library's general holdings (they are not named).