Text Authorship:

• by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962), appears in 50 Poems, first published 1940, copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Josef Alexander (1907 - 1992), "anyone lived in a pretty how town" [ SATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "anyone lived in a pretty how town", 2007 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Melinda Bargreen , "anyone lived in a pretty how town", 2017 [ tenor or baritone and piano ], from In Fields Where Roses Fade, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Charles Edward Hamm (b. 1925), "anyone lived in a pretty how town", published 1956 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Donald Howard Keats (b. 1929), "anyone lived in a pretty how town", published 1968 [ SSATBB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Donald James Martino (1931 - 2005), "anyone lived in a pretty how town", published 1970 [ SATB chorus, piano four-hands, optional percussion ], from Portraits [sung text not yet checked]
• by Buxton Daeblitz Orr (1924 - 1997), "anyone lived in a pretty how town", published 1973 [ duet for soprano and contralto with piano ], from Many Kinds of Yes [sung text not yet checked]
• by Judith Lang Zaimont , "anyone lived in a pretty how town", 1965, first performed 1965 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Four Songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano, no. 1, Subito Music Corp. [sung text not yet checked]

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