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93 song texts, 212 settings, 54 placeholders, and 37 translations (with modifications to 223 texts and 255 settings) have been added as follows:

    2026-08-09
    • A total of 3 texts were modified.
    • A total of 2 settings were modified.
    2026-08-08
    • Concrete (Bethany Younge) [x]
    • [No title] (Tansy Davies) (Text: Anonymous after Guillaume IX d'Aquitaine, Comte de Poitiers) [x]
    • Lady Lazarus (Odaline de la Martinez) (Text: Sylvia Plath) *
    • Comeback (Odaline de la Martinez) (Text: Sylvia Plath)
    • Yappy Pace (Bethany Younge) (Text: Bethany Younge) [x]
    • You'd better learn your alphabet, dear (Bushra El-Turk) (Text: Bushra El-Turk) *
    • [No title] (Text: Anonymous) [x]
    • Feet to Roots, Eyes to Ears (Bethany Younge) (Text: Nina Dante) [x]
    • Thus We Dine (Bethany Younge) (Text: Bethany Younge) [x]
    • The Roaring Frost (Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x]
    • [No title] (Text: Ostap Slyvynsky) [x]
    • Where Waste Piles (Bethany Younge) [x]
    • ¡No pudo ser! (Odaline de la Martinez) (Text: Adolfo Bécquer)
    • Home I Want to Go Home (Odaline de la Martinez)
    • La Souris Couine (Bushra El-Turk)
    • Electric Speak! Junk for Me! (Bethany Younge) (Text: Bethany Younge) [x]
    • Glee! the great storm is over ! (Evan Williams) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
    • Overture (Odaline de la Martinez) [x]
    • Greenhouses (Tansy Davies) (Text: Rachel Aliene Corrie) [x]
    • [No title] (Text: Forough Farrokhzad) [x]
    • Oko and Imoinda (Odaline de la Martinez) (Text: Joan Anim-Addo)
    • Nightmare Canoe (Ship of Slaves) (Odaline de la Martinez) (Text: Joan Anim-Addo)
    • Heart, Drum, Hush (Odaline de la Martinez) (Text: Joan Anim-Addo)
    • Farai un vers de dreyt nien (Text: Guillaume IX d'Aquitaine, Comte de Poitiers)
    • John was a bad boy, and beat a poor cat (Charlotte Bray) (Text: Charles Henry Ross)
    • The Name - Of It - Is "Autumn" (Evan Williams) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
    • [No title] (Text: Forough Farrokhzad) [x]
    • What I Write Now (Tansy Davies) (Text: Derek Mahon after Maria de Ventadorn) ⊗
    • Out of the Depths (Odaline de la Martinez) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
    • At Midnight I Walked into the Middle of the Desert (Bethany Younge) [x]
    • There are fallen angels in the way you look (Charlotte Bray) (Text: Fernando Pessoa)
    • The wisest old man that ever was known (Charlotte Bray) (Text: Charles Henry Ross)
    • Old Tales (Charlotte Bray) (Text: Caroline Thomas) [x]
    • Tik Tak (Bushra El-Turk) (Text: Grégoire Haddad) *
    • Songoro Cosongo (Odaline de la Martinez) (Text: Nicolas Guillén) *
    • [No title] (Text: Forough Farrokhzad) [x]
    • A Temple (Charlotte Bray) (Text: Fernando Pessoa , as Alexander Search)
    • [No title] (Text: Maria de Ventadorn) [x]
    • The Crazed Moon (Effy Efthymiou) [x]
    • Latifa (Charlotte Bray) (Text: Tatiana Filimonova after Ostap Slyvynsky) ⊗
    • I Will Greet the Sun Again (Charlotte Bray) (Text: Sholeh Wolpé after Forough Farrokhzad) [x] ⊗
    • The bee is not afraid of me (Evan Williams) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
    • O Absalom (Odaline de la Martinez)
    • An old mulberry tree near Mariupol. . . (Charlotte Bray) (Text: Oksana Maksymchuk after Borys Humenyuk) ⊗*
    • Tonight I Am Alone (Odaline de la Martinez) (Text: Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva)
    • The Shelter (Evan Williams) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
    • Canto Negro (Odaline de la Martinez) (Text: Nicolas Guillén)
    • How many masks wear we, and undermasks (Charlotte Bray) (Text: Fernando Pessoa)
    • The Wind Will Blow Us Away (Charlotte Bray) (Text: Sholeh Wolpé after Forough Farrokhzad) [x] ⊗
    • [No title] (Text: Borys Humenyuk) [x]
    • Moon to Earth (Litha Efthymiou) [x]
    • Translation: Leave off hoping to deserve well of anyone in any way  ENG (after Gaius Valerius Catullus: Desine de quoquam quicquam bene velle mereri)
    • Bodyscape (Bethany Younge) (Text: Nina Dante) [x]
    • Concerto for violin with singer and 3 ensembles (Diana Elizabeth Jane Burrell) [x]
    • The Sun Rises (Charlotte Bray) (Text: Sholeh Wolpé after Forough Farrokhzad) [x] ⊗
    • Static (Tansy Davies) (Text: Nick Drake)
    • Alamargo (Bethany Younge) (Text: Nina Dante) [x]
    • Das öde Haus (Text: Karl August Timotheus Kahlert)
    • Das öde Haus (Jakob Rosenhain) (Text: Karl August Timotheus Kahlert)
    • Am Abend (Joseph Rheinberger) (Text: Friedrich Güll)
    • A total of 79 settings were added.
    • A total of 60 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
    • A total of 66 texts were modified.
    • A total of 81 settings were modified.
    2026-08-07
    • [No title] (Annea Lockwood) (Text: Anonymous after Jumah al-Dossari) [x] ⊗
    • Translation: You tell me, O my life, that this love of ours  ENG (after Gaius Valerius Catullus: Iucundum, mea vita, mihi proponis amorem)
    • nothing sounds right (Ella Kaale) (Text: Charles Edward Ives)
    • Hum (Alexis C. Lamb) (Text: Robin Hiersche) [x]
    • [No title] (Text: Jumah al-Dossari) [x]
    • Queen of the Waves / My Bonnie (Ella Kaale)
    • Translation: Ameana the worn-out whore  ENG (after Gaius Valerius Catullus: Ameana puella defututa)
    • Translation: The Truth  ENG (Text: Anonymous after Emad Abdullah Hassan) ⊗
    • [No title] (Text: Osama Abu Kabir) [x]
    • Amazonia Dreaming (Annea Lockwood) [x]
    • Translation: Is It True?  ENG (Text: Anonymous after Osama Abu Kabir) ⊗
    • three declarations of love and a dead bunny (Ella Kaale)
    • Water and Memory (Annea Lockwood) [x]
    • Saturday morning September 8. 1900. It was raining hard (Ella Kaale) (Text: Sarah Helen Littlejohn) [x]
    • the days are nouns (Paula Matthusen) (Text: Naomi Shihab Nye)
    • [No title] (Text: Emad Abdullah Hassan) [x]
    • I’m going to leave old Texas now (Ella Kaale) (Text: Volkslieder )
    • Deep within my heart lies a melody (Ella Kaale) (Text: Volkslieder )
    • oh n(o)w. . . roar all over and over again (Katharina Rosenberger) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]
    • Jane Doe (Olivia Marckx) (Text: Virginia Woolf) [x]
    • Nachtgedanken (Joseph Rheinberger) (Text: W. Knorr)
    • Marienlied (Joseph Rheinberger)
    • Chanson créole (Émile Guimet) (Text: Henri de Riberolles)
    • A total of 22 settings were added.
    • A total of 23 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
    • A total of 31 texts were modified.
    • A total of 27 settings were modified.
    2026-08-06
    • Translation: Ingebjørg  FRE (after Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann: Ingebjørg (Din Hånd er barket Ingebjørg, er solbrændt, ru og rød))
    • Translation: Epilogue  FRE (after Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann: Epilog (Vi ser på Tærsklen os tilbage;))
    • Translation: Masks! Masks! That one might deceive Eros  ENG (after Rainer Maria Rilke: Eros (Masken! Masken ! Daß man Eros blende))
    • Translation: I wander through valley and groves  ENG (after Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff: Wehmut (Ich irr in Tal und Hainen))
    • Translation: Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love  ENG (after Gaius Valerius Catullus: Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus)
    • Translation: My lady says there's nobody she'd rather marry  ENG (after Gaius Valerius Catullus: Nulli se dicit mulier mea nubere malle)
    • Paissez, chères brebis, les herbettes naissantes (Émile Guimet) (Text: Jean-Baptiste Pocquelin , as Molière)
    • Translation: Ragna  FRE (after Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann: Ragna (O Ragna, hvor dog Tiden går))
    • Translation: O Caelius, that Lesbia of ours  ENG (after Gaius Valerius Catullus: Caeli, Lesbia nostra, Lesbia illa)
    • Fränkisches Volkslied (Joseph Rheinberger) (Text: Volkslieder )
    • Cœur-König fragt' einmal, so im Parliren (Karl Gottlieb Reissiger) (Text: August Kopisch)
    • Translation: San Francisco Night  ENG (after Paul Gilson: San Francisco Night (Je crois qu’il n’a jamais fait plus noir que ce soir))
    • Translation: A Sentimental Theme  ENG (after Émile Nelligan: Thème sentimental (Je t'ai vue un soir me sourire))
    • Frida (Émile Guimet) (Text: Émile Guimet)
    • Le torero (Émile Guimet) (Text: Henri de Riberolles)
    • Oh ! Dis-moi... (Émile Guimet) (Text: Émile Guimet)
    • A total of 4 settings were added.
    • A total of 16 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
    • A total of 26 texts were modified.
    • A total of 21 settings were modified.
    2026-08-05
    • Translation: Mallo lero (Loobeen)  ENG (Text: Breandán Ó Madagáin after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
    • The Wind (Gregg Kallor) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
    • Translation: Here below, all the lilacs are dying  ENG (after René-François Sully-Prudhomme: Ici-bas tous les lilas meurent (Ici-bas tous les lilas meurent))
    • Still own thee — still thou art — (Gregg Kallor) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
    • Nochtaíodh domsa tráth (Ana Sokolović) (Text: Máirtín Ó Direáin) *
    • Translation: The candle burns on my table  ENG (after Else Lasker-Schüler: Meine Mutter (Es brennt die Kerze auf meinen Tisch))
    • Translation: I sleep deep in the rigid night of Winter  ENG (after Else Lasker-Schüler: Winternacht (Ich schlafe tief in starrer Winternacht))
    • Crisply the bright snow whispered (Trent Worthinton) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
    • It bloomed and dropt, a Single Noon — (Gregg Kallor) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
    • Crow's Account of the Battle (Text: Ted Hughes) *
    • Yet Again (Paola Prestini) (Text: Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky) [x]
    • Translation: Green was the willow  ENG (after Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff: Grün war die Weide)
    • Carol of the Birds (Lynne Plowman) (Text: Gillian Clarke)
    • A Little More Time (Leonard Enns) (Text: Anonymous after Rainer Maria Rilke)
    • The Owl-Woman (Lynne Plowman) (Text: Russell Conwell Hoban)
    • Translation: I hung on a golden spring cloud  ENG (after Else Lasker-Schüler: Im Anfang (Hing an einer goldnen Lenzwolke))
    • shimmering glimmering (Lynne Plowman) (Text: Hildegard von Bingen)
    • Hóbó hóbo bobó (4x) (Ana Sokolović)
    • Translation: I will show you the Spring  ENG (after Rainer Maria Rilke: Will dir den Frühling zeigen)
    • Love, it is said.. (Lynne Plowman) (Text: Arnold Birtwistle) [x]
    • Translation: Please, my sweet Ipsitilla  ENG (after Gaius Valerius Catullus: Amabo, mea dulcis Ipsitilla)
    • But Not To Me (Johannes Boris Borowski, Gregg Kallor) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
    • Maileo léró (Lúibín) (Ana Sokolović)
    • Translation: See in my wander-weary face  ENG (after Else Lasker-Schüler: Das Lied meines Lebens (Sieh in mein verwandertes Gesicht ..))
    • Translation: The Dignity of Grief  ENG (Text: Frank Sewell after Máirtín Ó Direáin) *
    • Translation: My little hammer, my little room  ENG (after Else Lasker-Schüler: Ein Ticktackliedchen für Päulchen (Mein Hämmerchen, mein Kämmerchen))
    • Fred to Samantha (Lynne Plowman) (Text: Russell Conwell Hoban) *
    • Mermaid (Lynne Plowman) (Text: Russell Conwell Hoban) *
    • Long, Lone (Lynne Plowman) (Text: Russell Conwell Hoban) *
    • Translation: The Hands  ENG (after Veuve Delbousquet, Mme: Lorsque je regarde mes mains)
    • Die Eisenbahn (Charles Henri Plantade) (Text: Johann Daniel Anton after Théodore César Muret)
    • Les chemins de fer (Charles Henri Plantade) (Text: Théodore César Muret)
    • Die Verlobte (Carlo Alfredo Piatti) (Text: Carl Gollmick after Francesco Jannetti)
    • La fidanzata (Carlo Alfredo Piatti) (Text: Francesco Jannetti)
    • Ein Lebewohl (Carlo Alfredo Piatti) (Text: Carl Gollmick after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
    • Un Addio (Carlo Alfredo Piatti)
    • Erlösung (Josef Panny) (Text: Wilhelm Müller)
    • A total of 42 settings were added.
    • A total of 37 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
    • A total of 42 texts were modified.
    • A total of 44 settings were modified.
    2026-08-04
    • Wishes (Johannes Boris Borowski) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
    • Translation: Prologue  FRE (after Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann: Prolog (Jeg ved ej hvad der rører sig så sælsomt i mit Bryst;))
    • Translation: Ragnhild  FRE (after Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann: Ragnhild (Å, der var en Jente))
    • Dead Love (Johannes Boris Borowski) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
    • Translation: Si doux était le petit somme de la nuit d’été  FRE (after Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann: Saa sød var Sommernattens Blund)
    • Urtod (Johannes Boris Borowski) (Text: August Stramm)
    • Translation: Johanne  FRE (after Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann: Johanne (En Fillehytte var dit Bo))
    • I stole them from a Bee (Johannes Boris Borowski) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
    • Translation: Repose sur le monde, ô paix profonde  FRE (after Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann: Hvil over Verden, Du dybe Fred)
    • Zagen (Johannes Boris Borowski) (Text: August Stramm)
    • Die schönsten Töne (Josef Panny) (Text: Wilhelm Müller)
    • Die Bäume (Josef Panny) (Text: Wilhelm Müller)
    • Her Image (Carl Oberthür) (Text: Eleanor Elde Darby after Hugo Rösner)
    • Ihr Bild (Carl Oberthür) (Text: Hugo Rösner)
    • Dernier chant d'une jeune fille (Wilhelm Neuland) (Text: Pierre Hédouin)
    • Mutterliebe (Sigismund von Neukomm)
    • Die vier steinernen Reiter am Straßburger Münster (Sigismund von Neukomm) (Text: August Daniel Ehrenfried Stöber)
    • Der Sinn des Weines (Ferdinand Neukäufler) (Text: Karl Joseph Simrock)
    • Le conscrit (Émile Guimet) (Text: Émile Guimet)
    • A total of 26 settings were added.
    • A total of 19 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
    • A total of 21 texts were modified.
    • A total of 29 settings were modified.
    2026-08-03
    • Translation: Don’t open your eyes yet  ENG (after Auguste de Châtillon: La Sieste (N'ouvrez pas encor les yeux))
    • Translation: When I think about you  ENG (after Emanuel Geibel: Deutsch (Wenn ich an dich gedenke))
    • Good Friday (Morfydd Llwyn Owen) (Text: Katharine Tynan)
    • Translation: O my star!  ENG (after Friedrich Rückert: O mein Stern!)
    • Chanson grecque (Émile Guimet) (Text: Louis Morel-Retz , as Stop after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
    • Rupture (Émile Guimet) (Text: Émile Guimet)
    • Promenade sous bois (Émile Guimet) (Text: Émile Guimet)
    • A total of 9 settings were added.
    • A total of 7 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
    • A total of 7 texts were modified.
    • A total of 13 settings were modified.
    2026-08-02
    • Das schönste Rot (Andreas Schaeffer) [x]
    • Die Wunderblume (Ludwig Alois Molitor) (Text: Georg Wilhelm Molitor)
    • Trinklied (Carl Ludwig Amand Mangold) (Text: Martin Birmann)
    • Reiterlied (Carl Ludwig Amand Mangold) (Text: Nikolaus Lenau)
    • Lai de Thibaut de Champagne (Émile Guimet) (Text: Joseph 'Chevalier' Bard after Thibaut Ier de Navarre) ⊗
    • Le psaltérion (Émile Guimet) (Text: Émile Guimet)
    • Quebra meu povo (Fernando Álvares Lobo, as Marcelo Tupinambá) (Text: Gastão Barroso)
    • A total of 14 settings were added.
    • A total of 7 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
    • A total of 11 texts were modified.
    • A total of 22 settings were modified.
    2026-08-01
    • In the Absence (Nina Šenk) [x]
    • R. O vos felices radices (Hildegard von Bingen) (Text: Hildegard von Bingen)
    • Translation: R. O you fruitful roots  ENG (after Hildegard von Bingen: R. O vos felices radices)
    • V gozdu (Nina Šenk) (Text: Oton Župančič) [x]
    • Translation: O fiery Spirit, praise be to you  ENG (after Hildegard von Bingen: O ignee Spiritus, laus tibi sit)
    • O ignee Spiritus, laus tibi sit (Hildegard von Bingen) (Text: Hildegard von Bingen)
    • [No title] (Nina Šenk) [x]
    • Auguries of Innocence (Nina Šenk) (Text: William Blake) [x]
    • Der Verbannte (Peter Joseph Lindpaintner) (Text: Franz Karl Hiemer)
    • Waldsehnsucht (Ludwig Liebe) (Text: Emil Brämer, Dr.)
    • Waldesruf (Ludwig Liebe) (Text: Emil Brämer, Dr.)
    • Waldwünsche (Ludwig Liebe) (Text: Emil Brämer, Dr.)
    • Am Walde (Ludwig Liebe) (Text: Emil Brämer, Dr.)
    • Der Himmel im Walde (Ludwig Liebe) (Text: Emil Brämer, Dr.)
    • Waldlied (Ludwig Liebe) (Text: Emil Brämer, Dr.)
    • A total of 16 settings were added.
    • A total of 15 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
    • A total of 16 texts were modified.
    • A total of 16 settings were modified.

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