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70 song texts, 166 settings, 121 placeholders, and 10 translations (with modifications to 281 texts and 242 settings) have been added as follows:

    2025-11-08
    • Translation: The Battle of the Rats and the Weasels  ENG (after Jean de La Fontaine: Le Combat des Rats et des Belettes (La nation des Belettes))
    • A total of 1 text or placeholder was added.
    • A total of 2 texts were modified.
    2025-11-07
    • Noch schöner mit jeder Stunde (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Oser)
    • Alien (Zenobia Powell, as Zenobia Powell Perry) (Text: Donald Jeffrey Hayes) *
    • Translation: The seagull  ENG (after Friedrich Heinrich Oser: Die Möwe (Der blitzende Jänner, der ist dein Mai))
    • Translation: Winter stillness  ENG (after Friedrich Heinrich Oser: Winterstille (Tiefblau das hohe Himmelszelt))
    • Translation: Since the fifer is ill  ENG (after René Ponsard: Le Navire infernal (Puisque le fifre est malade))
    • Reiher flogen (Karol Maciej Szymanowski) (Text: Jan Śliwiński , as Hans Effenberger after Volkslieder )
    • Pastourelle (Zenobia Powell, as Zenobia Powell Perry) (Text: Donald Jeffrey Hayes) *
    • Poet (Zenobia Powell, as Zenobia Powell Perry) (Text: Donald Jeffrey Hayes) *
    • Benediction (Zenobia Powell, as Zenobia Powell Perry) (Text: Donald Jeffrey Hayes) *
    • The country dance (Mary Hannah Brahe) (Text: Helen Taylor)
    • Blue ribbons (Mary Hannah Brahe) (Text: Helen Taylor)
    • La Vierge au lavoir (Pauline Viardot-García) (Text: Gabriel Vicaire)
    • Les blancs cygnes (Karol Maciej Szymanowski) (Text: Zofia Szymanowska after Volkslieder )
    • The Soul Fox (Lori Laitman) (Text: David Mason) *
    • Night song (Lori Laitman) (Text: David Mason) *
    • Aubade (Lori Laitman) (Text: David Mason) *
    • Sarong song (Lori Laitman) (Text: David Mason) *
    • The man who lied (Lori Laitman) (Text: David Mason) *
    • Lupinen (Margriet Ehlen) (Text: Martin Boot) *
    • A blessing (Lori Laitman, David Evan Thomas) (Text: James Wright) *
    • A total of 2 settings were added.
    • A total of 20 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
    • A total of 35 texts were modified.
    • A total of 28 settings were modified.
    2025-11-06
    • Ice Giant (Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x]
    • She Was The Ocean (Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x]
    • After Night Falls (Abigail Lui) *
    • All Along The Road (Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) (Text: William Carlos Williams)
    • Sandcastles (Abigail Lui) *
    • The Moon (Abigail Lui) [x]*
    • Lift Up Your Voice and Sing (Abigail Lui)
    • SALT (Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) (Text: Audrey Ormella) [x]*
    • Rosen (Mathilde von Kralik) (Text: Irene Zoepf)
    • Maiglöckchen (Mathilde von Kralik) (Text: Irene Zoepf)
    • A total of 10 settings were added.
    • A total of 10 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
    • A total of 16 texts were modified.
    • A total of 17 settings were modified.
    2025-11-05
    • The Ice Core Sample Says (Tansy Davies) (Text: Nick Drake) [x]*
    • Music began (Tansy Davies) (Text: John Peter Berger) *
    • In den storm (Marie-Antoinette Schussler-Brewaeys) [x]
    • The Green Children of Woolpit (Amy Bryce) (Text: Jimmy Andrex) [x]*
    • Mahnung (Amy Bryce) [x]
    • This Love (Tansy Davies) (Text: Nick Drake) *
    • A Strange Time and Place (Amy Bryce)
    • Destroying Beauty (Tansy Davies) (Text: John Clare)
    • I am a Bubble (Amy Bryce) (Text: George MacDonald)
    • Angelus (Diana Elizabeth Jane Burrell) [x]
    • Longtemps ce fut l'été (Diana Elizabeth Jane Burrell) (Text: Yves Bonnefoy) *
    • Beyond the Vale (Amy Bryce) (Text: Roland Bryce) [x]*
    • King shall Bright Ring give in Hall (Diana Elizabeth Jane Burrell) (Text: Anne Savage)
    • Lijnen (Helena Tulve) (Text: Roland Jooris) *
    • Lullaby (Tansy Davies) (Text: Nick Drake)
    • I who have spoken the world (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
    • But shall we leave it here (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
    • Meanwhile (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
    • Leonard Bernstein (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
    • Citizen Tom Paine (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
    • The idea is to throw out a net of words (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
    • How the rain comes—insistent and slow (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
    • There are details I’ve loved so much (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
    • Think of yourself as an idea (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
    • As a child my dreams (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
    • To say I’ve come back from the dead (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
    • On A Good Day (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) *
    • If I Have Grown Hawk-like (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) *
    • The Voice is Not the Word (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) *
    • Rama's Dream (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) *
    • Glyph/The Message (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
    • New Years, 1979, Ending the Decade (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
    • Reincarnation (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
    • Mein Bruder (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
    • My Egyptian Sister (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
    • Glyph/The Messenger (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
    • I walk out to the end (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
    • Dear Frank (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
    • A little girl (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
    • I’ll never understand (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
    • White pillars (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
    • if the (Daniel Asia) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
    • two old (Daniel Asia) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
    • blossoming are people (Daniel Asia) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
    • this (let’s remember) (Daniel Asia) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
    • swooning (Daniel Asia) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
    • if a cheerfulest (Daniel Asia) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
    • I'am asking (Daniel Asia) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
    • feather rain (Daniel Asia) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
    • hair your a brook (Daniel Asia) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
    • luminous tendril (Daniel Asia) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
    • quick i the death (Daniel Asia) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
    • My father's name was (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) *
    • Yom Kippur (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) *
    • Job longed for the grave (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) *
    • Old medals, prayer shawls (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) *
    • What do we know (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) *
    • Le Cochon (Marcel Legay) (Text: Charles Monselet)
    • Sbohem a šáteček (Vítězslava Kaprálová) (Text: Vítězslav Nezval)
    • Ruce (Vítězslava Kaprálová) (Text: Jaroslav Seifert)
    • Čím je můj žal (Vítězslava Kaprálová) (Text: Jan Čarek)
    • Navždy (Vítězslava Kaprálová) (Text: Jan Čarek)
    • Jarní pouť (Vítězslava Kaprálová) (Text: Jaroslav Seifert) *
    • Bezvětří (Vítězslava Kaprálová) (Text: Jaroslav Seifert) *
    • Ukolébavka (Vítězslava Kaprálová) (Text: Jaroslav Seifert) *
    • Píseň na vrbovou píšťalku (Vítězslava Kaprálová) (Text: Jaroslav Seifert) *
    • Osiřelý (Vítězslava Kaprálová) (Text: R. Bojko)
    • A total of 70 settings were added.
    • A total of 67 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
    • A total of 99 texts were modified.
    • A total of 85 settings were modified.
    2025-11-04
    • Risky (Linda Bouchard) (Text: Maurice Tourigny) [x]*
    • Kein Wort hat's gewagt (Franz Wilhelm Abt) (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Oser)
    • Wunder (Philipp Tietz) (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Oser)
    • What we have once enjoyed we can never lose (Mari Ésabel Valverde) (Text: Helen Adams Keller)
    • Unendliches Meer! (Franz Wilhelm Abt) (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Oser)
    • Forever (Linda Bouchard) (Text: Maurice Tourigny) [x]*
    • En la noche entraremos (Mari Ésabel Valverde) (Text: Pablo Neruda)
    • Wenn wir's uns gestehen (Franz Wilhelm Abt, Bernhard Bogler) (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Oser)
    • Puisque le fifre est malade (Marcel Legay) (Text: René Ponsard)
    • Jubelnde Lerchen singen den Frühling ein (Rudolf Löw-Burckhardt) (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Oser)
    • A total of 6 settings were added.
    • A total of 10 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
    • A total of 13 texts were modified.
    • A total of 6 settings were modified.
    2025-11-03
    • Ofríkiő græddi í okkur ljónshjarta (Karólína Eiríksdóttir) (Text: Sigurður Pálsson) *
    • In the Bubble Gum Jungle (Freya Waley-Cohen) (Text: Roxy Kleinman)
    • Mu tuba täis on väikeseid ingleid (Liis Jürgens) (Text: Hando Runnel) [x]
    • You envied the stars their height (Freya Waley-Cohen) (Text: Amy Katrina Blakemore)
    • Pep It Up (Isidora Žebeljan) [x]
    • Translation: The Girl Who Coughs  ENG (after Jean Richepin: La Petite qui tousse (Les aiguilles des vents froids))
    • [No title] (Text: Bai Juyi) [x]
    • Leonce and Lena (Isidora Žebeljan) (Text: Anonymous after Georg Büchner)
    • Disfluencies (Aleksandra Vrebalov) (Text: Lucy Dhegrae) [x]*
    • Translation: Weep not  ENG (after (Adolf) Hugo Göring: Wiedersehen (Weine nicht))
    • Happiness (Freya Waley-Cohen) (Text: Jack Underwood) *
    • Maríuljóð (María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir) (Text: Vilborg Dagbjartsdóttir) *
    • Once (Freya Waley-Cohen) (Text: Emily Berry) [x]*
    • Still Light (Freya Waley-Cohen) (Text: Shazea Quraishi) *
    • Ease (Freya Waley-Cohen) (Text: George X. Fu after Bai Juyi) ⊗
    • Lend us your Voice (Freya Waley-Cohen) [x]
    • Translation: The Hare and the Tortoise  ENG (after Jean de La Fontaine: Le lièvre et la tortue (Rien ne sert de courir ; il faut partir à point))
    • An Avoidance (Freya Waley-Cohen) (Text: Jack Underwood) *
    • Translation: The summer dream was lovely!  ENG (after Friedrich Heinrich Oser: Hold war der Sommertraum! (Hold war der Sommertraum!))
    • Zwei Frauen (Mathilde von Kralik) (Text: Richard von Kralik)
    • A total of 12 settings were added.
    • A total of 20 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
    • A total of 35 texts were modified.
    • A total of 17 settings were modified.
    2025-11-02
    • Heute rot -- morgen tot (Valentin Eduard Becker) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
    • Revelation (Sarah Lianne Lewis) (Text: JL Williams)
    • Translation: In vain does Dawn  ENG (after Marceline Desbordes-Valmore: Le Soir (En vain l'Aurore))
    • Odysseus (Miranda Driessen) (Text: Antonius Otto Hermannus Tellegen , as Toon Tellegen) *
    • Mijn weg is recht, heel recht (Miranda Driessen) (Text: Antonius Otto Hermannus Tellegen , as Toon Tellegen) *
    • Ik herinner me een jongen (Miranda Driessen) (Text: Antonius Otto Hermannus Tellegen , as Toon Tellegen) *
    • Vöglein auf der Wiege (Sarah Lianne Lewis) (Text: Volkslieder )
    • We must (Miranda Driessen) (Text: Henry Charles Bukowski)
    • Clychau (Sarah Lianne Lewis) (Text: Volkslieder )
    • Réminiscence (Sarah Lianne Lewis) (Text: Albert-Paul Granier)
    • Heron (Sarah Lianne Lewis) (Text: JL Williams) *
    • Clericus et Nonna (Sarah Lianne Lewis) [x]
    • Þjóðlag úr Álfhamri (Jórunn Viðar) (Text: Guðmundur Böðvarsson) *
    • Morning Light (Monique Krüs) (Text: Xandra Knebel)
    • Meerwaarde (Mari-anne Hof) (Text: Tanja Helderman)
    • New Dreams for Old (Sarah Lianne Lewis) (Text: Cale Young Rice) [x]
    • Ik mocht kiezen (Miranda Driessen) (Text: Antonius Otto Hermannus Tellegen , as Toon Tellegen)
    • Ik trok een streep (Miranda Driessen) (Text: Antonius Otto Hermannus Tellegen , as Toon Tellegen) *
    • [No title] (Nino Janjgava) (Text: Jarji Pkhoveli) [x]
    • All my ships are white (Sarah Lianne Lewis) (Text: Virginia Woolf)
    • ‘Ben je gelukkig geweest?’ (Miranda Driessen) (Text: Antonius Otto Hermannus Tellegen) *
    • [No title] (Miranda Driessen) (Text: Elfriede Jelinek) [x]*
    • Zondag (Miranda Driessen) (Text: Antonius Otto Hermannus Tellegen , as Toon Tellegen) *
    • Dawn (Sarah Lianne Lewis) (Text: JL Williams) [x]
    • Der Ritt zum Liebchen (Valentin Eduard Becker) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
    • [No title] (Sarah Lianne Lewis) (Text: Benjamin Morris) [x]
    • Das fidele Haus (Valentin Eduard Becker) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
    • Trinklied (Valentin Eduard Becker) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
    • Ein altes Lied (Valentin Eduard Becker) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
    • Der Schalk (Valentin Eduard Becker) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
    • Nach der Trauung (Valentin Eduard Becker) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
    • Ständchen (Valentin Eduard Becker) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
    • Lachlied (Valentin Eduard Becker) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
    • Maitag (Valentin Eduard Becker) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
    • Abschiedslied (Valentin Eduard Becker) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
    • Liebeskummer (Valentin Eduard Becker) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
    • Spottlied auf ein vornehm thuendes Mädchen (Valentin Eduard Becker) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
    • Une Âme (Claude Tricot) (Text: Marceline Desbordes-Valmore)
    • A total of 44 settings were added.
    • A total of 38 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
    • A total of 45 texts were modified.
    • A total of 63 settings were modified.
    2025-11-01
    • Anatomy of a Jar (Cecilia Arditto) [x]
    • Winterwende (Margriet Verbeek) (Text: Ida Gardina Margaretha Gerhardt) [x]*
    • Lune mellifluente aux lèvres des déments (Rósa Lind) (Text: Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki , as Guillaume Apollinaire)
    • L'univers (Rósa Lind) (Text: Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki , as Guillaume Apollinaire)
    • Automne (Sonja Beets) (Text: Jules Breton)
    • Over Zee (Amba Klapwijk)
    • I've met someone there (Sara Zamboni)
    • Ijs (Anne La Berge) (Text: Anne La Berge)
    • Scheurlucht (Gerda Geertens) (Text: René de Clercq)
    • Regen na droogte (Margriet Verbeek)
    • There is One Thing (Rita Hijmans) (Text: Juliet Marillier) [x]
    • De zwarte kat (Margriet Verbeek) (Text: Ida Gardina Margaretha Gerhardt) [x]*
    • Toujours (Rósa Lind) (Text: Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki , as Guillaume Apollinaire)
    • Haiku (Miranda Driessen) (Text: Roel Houwink)
    • Wat ik wil (Corrie van Binsbergen) (Text: Antonius Otto Hermannus Tellegen , as Toon Tellegen)
    • God gheve hen allen die Minne begheren (Sylvia Maessen) (Text: Hadewijch)
    • [No title] (Margriet Verbeek) (Text: Ida Gardina Margaretha Gerhardt) [x]*
    • Translation: The Hen with Golden Eggs  ENG (after Jean de La Fontaine: La Poule aux oeufs d'or (L'avarice perd tout en voulant tout gagner))
    • Propositio XV (Hanna Kulenty) (Text: Baruch de Spinoza)
    • Propositio XIV (Hanna Kulenty) (Text: Baruch de Spinoza)
    • Propositio XIII (Hanna Kulenty) (Text: Baruch de Spinoza)
    • Propositio XII (Hanna Kulenty) (Text: Baruch de Spinoza)
    • Propositio XI (Hanna Kulenty) (Text: Baruch de Spinoza)
    • Propositio X (Hanna Kulenty) (Text: Baruch de Spinoza)
    • Propositio IX (Hanna Kulenty) (Text: Baruch de Spinoza)
    • Propositio VII (Hanna Kulenty) (Text: Baruch de Spinoza)
    • Propositio VI (Hanna Kulenty) (Text: Baruch de Spinoza)
    • Propositio V (Hanna Kulenty) (Text: Baruch de Spinoza)
    • Propositio IV (Hanna Kulenty) (Text: Baruch de Spinoza)
    • Propositio III (Hanna Kulenty) (Text: Baruch de Spinoza)
    • Propositio II (Hanna Kulenty) (Text: Baruch de Spinoza)
    • Propositio I (Hanna Kulenty) (Text: Baruch de Spinoza)
    • Comitat: Nun zu guter Letzt (Felix Mendelssohn) (Text: August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben) [x]
    • Lied für die Deutschen in Lyon (Felix Mendelssohn) (Text: Heinrich Wilhelm Stolze) [x]
    • Vökuró (Jórunn Viðar) (Text: Jakobína Sigurðardóttir) *
    • A total of 22 settings were added.
    • A total of 35 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
    • A total of 36 texts were modified.
    • A total of 26 settings were modified.

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