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150 song texts, 238 settings, 56 placeholders, and 15 translations (with modifications to 300 texts and 294 settings) have been added as follows:

    2026-02-05
    • Wo die Liebe weilet (Philipp Tietz) (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Oser)
    • Translation: Past  ENG (after Carl Schäffler: Vorbei (Ein freundlich Thal))
    • Translation: The growth of love  ENG (after Friedrich Heinrich Oser: Der Liebe Wachsthum (O Liebste, horch! für eine Schuld))
    • Translation: When one of your friends has died  ENG (after Angelika von Michałowska: Wenn dir ein Freund gestorben ist (Wenn dir ein Freund gestorben ist))
    • Le rêve de le prisonnier (Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein) (Text: Anonymous after Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov)
    • La rosée étincelle (Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein) (Text: Joseph Dieudonné Tagliafico after Gustav von Boddien)
    • Elisas letztes Gebet (Antoine Joseph Michael Romagnesi) (Text: Johann Daniel Anton after Charles de Warwille)
    • Der Seesturm (Antoine Joseph Michael Romagnesi) (Text: Johann Daniel Anton after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
    • Le grain de mer (Antoine Joseph Michael Romagnesi) (Text: Claudius B.)
    • Normandische Liebeserklärung (Antoine Joseph Michael Romagnesi) (Text: Johann Daniel Anton after Charles de Warwille)
    • La déclaration Normande (Antoine Joseph Michael Romagnesi) (Text: Charles de Warwille , as H. T. Poisson)
    • Barcarole aus dem Schauspiele Maria Tudor (August Wilhelm Julius Rietz) (Text: Karl Gottfried Theodor Winkler , as Theodor Hell after Victor Hugo)
    • Sa dernière Prière (Antoine Joseph Michael Romagnesi) (Text: Charles de Warwille , as H. T. Poisson)
    • A total of 11 settings were added.
    • A total of 13 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
    • A total of 22 texts were modified.
    • A total of 19 settings were modified.
    2026-02-04
    • Trauungslied (Johann Heinrich Lützel) (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Oser)
    • Translation: Flowers and Trees  ENG (after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist: Les fleurs et les arbres)
    • Wie Gott dich liebt (Philipp Tietz) (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Oser)
    • Das Bild der Rose (Gustav Reichardt) (Text: Anonymous)
    • No Ordinary Woman (Gwyneth Walker) (Text: Lucille Clifton) *
    • Erhebe dich, o meine Seele (Magdalena Naacke) (Text: Peter Lackmann)
    • Stella Matutina (Kerry Andrew) (Text: Anonymous after Bede)
    • The Song of Doves (Kerry Andrew) (Text: David Gould)
    • Lieb' im Leide (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Oser)
    • The Echo Elf Answers (Kerry Andrew) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
    • Archbishop Parker's Psalme 150 (Kerry Andrew) (Text: Matthew Parker, Archbishop)
    • Christus est stella matutina, Alleluia (Text: Bede)
    • Bless my Baby Bless My Baby Bright (Kerry Andrew) (Text: Gertrude Stein)
    • Requiem for the Ancestors—Día de los Muertos (Sheli Nan) [x]
    • Moonflow (Kay Gardner) [x]
    • Alles findet Ruh' und Rast (Philipp Tietz) (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Oser)
    • CoMABlues (Kerry Andrew) (Text: bpNichol)
    • He Resigns (Anne Carol Kilstofte) (Text: John Allyn Berryman, born John Allyn Smith, Jr.)
    • Soldiers Prayer (Anne Carol Kilstofte) (Text: Joyce Kilmer)
    • Horse Fiddle (Anne Carol Kilstofte) (Text: Carl Sandburg)
    • Luna-cy (Kerry Andrew) [x]
    • To Be One (Kerry Andrew) (Text: Mary Ann Evans , as George Eliot)
    • Translation: Calm of the Night  ENG (after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist: Calme des nuits, fraîcheur des soirs)
    • The Dream (Alonso Malik Pirio) (Text: Theodore Roethke)
    • Zur nacht (Magdalena Naacke)
    • Alles macht die Liebe leicht (Carl Santner, Philipp Tietz) (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Oser)
    • At a Window (Anne Carol Kilstofte) (Text: Carl Sandburg)
    • Before the Ending of the Day (Kerry Andrew) (Text: John Mason Neale)
    • Sin vos (Carla Lucero) (Text: Alicia Gaspar de Alba)
    • Amy swete husbond, wolde ye telle to me (Kerry Andrew)
    • You May Stay (Carla Lucero) (Text: Mark Campbell) [x]*
    • who we are (Kerry Andrew)
    • [No title] [x]
    • Soft Footfalls, Song of the Anasazi (Anne Carol Kilstofte) (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
    • Electric (Carla Lucero)
    • First, it is a knowledge easily taught, and quickly learned (Kerry Andrew) (Text: William Byrd)
    • Mame = מאמע (Sylke Zimpel) (Text: Rajzel Żychlińsky) *
    • Fear (Carla Lucero) *
    • Meine Taube (Loïsa Puget) (Text: Johann Daniel Anton after Gustave Lemoine)
    • Seufzer des Gefangenen (Friedrich August Reissiger)
    • Newborn Child (Sylvie Bodorová) [x]
    • Mamo (Sylvie Bodorová) [x]
    • Ma colombe (Loïsa Puget) (Text: Gustave Lemoine)
    • La Laitière (Loïsa Puget) (Text: Gustave Lemoine)
    • Balada de la estrella (José Enrique González Medina) (Text: Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga , as Gabriela Mistral)
    • Éxtasis (José Enrique González Medina) (Text: Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga , as Gabriela Mistral)
    • La lluvia lenta (Domingo Santa Cruz Wilson) (Text: Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga , as Gabriela Mistral)
    • A total of 48 settings were added.
    • A total of 47 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
    • A total of 88 texts were modified.
    • A total of 65 settings were modified.
    2026-02-03
    • Translation: Morning serenade  ENG (after Friedrich Heinrich Oser: Morgenständchen (Noch schlummert sie süß. -- Dem lauschenden Wald))
    • Translation: He who wishes to kiss his beloved  ENG (after Friedrich Heinrich Oser: Wer seine Liebste küssen will (Wer seine Liebste küssen will))
    • Des Greises Glück (Magdalena Naacke) (Text: D. Saul, possibly Daniel Johannes Saul ) [x]
    • Zur Nacht, (Magdalena Naacke) [x]
    • Wenn du zu meiner Liebsten kommst (Giovanni Battista Gordigiani) (Text: Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Adami)
    • Translation: As long as I was pleasing to you  ENG (after Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus): Donec gratus eram tibi)
    • Pfingsten (Magdalena Naacke) [x]
    • Weihnacht (Magdalena Naacke) [x]
    • Zu Zwein (Philipp Tietz) (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Oser)
    • Charfreitag (Magdalena Naacke) [x]
    • Der Lebensweg (Magdalena Naacke) [x]
    • [No title] (Text: Frida Schanz) [x]
    • Zum Gedächtnis der Entschlafenen (Magdalena Naacke) [x]
    • Die Sonn' hat ihren Lauf gewendet (Johann Sebastian Bach, Magdalena Naacke) (Text: Josua Stegmann) [x]
    • Der Freuden beut die Erde viel (Philipp Tietz) (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Oser)
    • Die Zeit der Lieb' und Lust (Charles Henri Plantade) (Text: Johann Daniel Anton after Jacinthe Leclère)
    • Profitez des beaux jours (Charles Henri Plantade) (Text: Jacinthe Leclère)
    • Johanna von Montfort (Auguste-Mathieu Panseron) (Text: Johann Daniel Anton after Charles de Warwille)
    • Jeanne de Montfort (Auguste-Mathieu Panseron) (Text: Charles de Warwille , as H. T. Poisson)
    • Die Ungetreue (Auguste-Mathieu Panseron) (Text: Johann Daniel Anton after Émile Barateau)
    • Demain on vous marie (Auguste-Mathieu Panseron) (Text: Émile Barateau)
    • Erwartung (Auguste-Mathieu Panseron) (Text: Anonymous after Louis-Ernest Crevel de Charlemagne)
    • J'attends encore (Auguste-Mathieu Panseron) (Text: Louis-Ernest Crevel de Charlemagne)
    • Das Hochzeitskörbchen (Auguste-Mathieu Panseron) (Text: Anonymous after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
    • La corbeille de mariage (Auguste-Mathieu Panseron)
    • Die Liebespost (Ferdinand Neukäufler) (Text: Emil Reininger)
    • Zum Heimatland (Sidney Nelson) (Text: Anonymous after Charles Benjamin Incledon)
    • Dear Native Land (Sidney Nelson) (Text: Charles Benjamin Incledon)
    • Gib her! (Magdalena Naacke) (Text: Frida Schanz)
    • Es rüttelt der Wind die Bäume (Anton Meyer) (Text: Emilie Emma von Hallberg)
    • Die zwei Soldaten (J. Merlé) (Text: Johann Daniel Anton after Aimé Gourdin)
    • Les deux soldats (J. Merlé) (Text: Aimé Gourdin)
    • Erinnerung an einen Ball (François Masini) (Text: Johann Daniel Anton after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
    • Der alte Fischer (François Masini) (Text: Johann Daniel Anton after Émile Forgues)
    • Le vieux pêcheur (François Masini) (Text: Émile Forgues)
    • Lovely (François Masini) (Text: Johann Daniel Anton after Émile Barateau)
    • Vous ! (François Masini) (Text: Émile Barateau)
    • Souvenirs d'un bal masqué (François Masini) (Text: Abel de M***)
    • Gondellied (Paul Umlauft, Oskar Wermann) (Text: Adolf Böttger)
    • A total of 36 settings were added.
    • A total of 39 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
    • A total of 52 texts were modified.
    • A total of 48 settings were modified.
    2026-02-02
    • Eight of Swords (Melissa Dunphy) (Text: Charles Anthony Silvestri)
    • I Might Be Alice 3 (Melissa Dunphy) (Text: Jacqueline Goldfinger)
    • Sher markiert (Monica Houghton) (Text: Maggie Anderson) *
    • Totality (Melissa Dunphy)
    • What do you think I fought for at Omaha Beach? (Melissa Dunphy) (Text: Phillip Spooner)
    • Translation: Ah, I would so gladly tell it to you!  ENG (after Friedrich Heinrich Oser: Ach, ich sagt's dir so gern! (Ach, ich sagt's dir so gern))
    • Translation: Hǎo yī duǒ měi lì de mò lì huā  CHI (Text: Volkslieder after Volkslieder )
    • Translation: More beautiful with every passing hour  ENG (after Friedrich Heinrich Oser: Noch schöner mit jeder Stunde (Noch schöner mit jeder Stunde))
    • Translation: Beautiful jasmine flower  ENG (Text: Volkslieder after Volkslieder )
    • 2018 (Melissa Dunphy) (Text: Christine Margaret Blasey Ford)
    • Willow Pattern (Melissa Dunphy)
    • Pipe Down (Melissa Dunphy) (Text: Caitlin Vincent)
    • It isn't a dream. (Melissa Dunphy) (Text: Lola Ridge)
    • Translation: When I saw you in lovely shyness  ENG (after Friedrich Heinrich Oser: Als ich dich sah in holder Scham (Als ich dich sah in holder Scham))
    • I Am Alice 1 (Melissa Dunphy) (Text: Jacqueline Goldfinger)
    • Not now, not ever (Melissa Dunphy) (Text: Julia Eileen Gillard)
    • (Shadows over a cradle (Melissa Dunphy) (Text: Lola Ridge)
    • Treue Liebe (Anton Häring) (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Oser)
    • Lento (Monica Houghton) (Text: Maggie Anderson)
    • We play at paste (Monica Houghton) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
    • In questa reggia (Text: Giuseppe Adami)
    • Me Too (Melissa Dunphy) (Text: Nikita Gill)
    • When the Time Comes (Melissa Dunphy) (Text: Joan Bader Ginsburg) *
    • Just another day (Melissa Dunphy) (Text: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez)
    • Together (Melissa Dunphy) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
    • Spilling Truth (Melissa Dunphy) (Text: Anonymous after Victor Hugo)
    • It's strange about stars (Melissa Dunphy) (Text: Lola Ridge)
    • raid your library (Melissa Dunphy) (Text: Amanda Lovelace)
    • Black Thunder (Melissa Dunphy) (Text: Luke Stromberg)
    • Andantino (Monica Houghton) (Text: Maggie Anderson)
    • Inventos (Monica Houghton) (Text: Federico García Lorca)
    • Halcyon Days (Melissa Dunphy) (Text: Jacqueline Goldfinger)
    • Sorcery (Melissa Dunphy) (Text: Nikita Gill) *
    • Witch-Wife (Melissa Dunphy) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
    • Maiden Speech (Melissa Dunphy) (Text: Julia Eileen Gillard)
    • From The Ashes She Became (Melissa Dunphy) (Text: Nikita Gill)
    • Vous me demandez mon avis, monsieur, sur l’expédition de Chine (Text: Victor Hugo)
    • Counterfeit (Melissa Dunphy)
    • The Apotheosis of Apollo (Melissa Dunphy) (Text: Clinton Kelly)
    • Reverse cannot befall that fine Prosperity (Monica Houghton) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
    • 好一朵美丽的茉莉花/ 好一朵美丽的茉莉花 (Text: Volkslieder )
    • Wild Embers (Melissa Dunphy) (Text: Nikita Gill)
    • Leisurely (Monica Houghton) (Text: Maggie Anderson)
    • There are different kinds of shadows (Melissa Dunphy) (Text: Lola Ridge)
    • Set Myself Free (Melissa Dunphy) (Text: Jacqueline Goldfinger)
    • You Have Become a Forest (Melissa Dunphy) (Text: Nikita Gill)
    • The Price of Ambition (Melissa Dunphy) (Text: Shelley Zhang)
    • I Am the World (Melissa Dunphy) (Text: Dora Sigerson)
    • Gather (Melissa Dunphy)
    • 1991 (Melissa Dunphy) (Text: Anita Faye Hill)
    • Scherzando (Monica Houghton) (Text: Maggie Anderson) *
    • I Wish that You Could See You (Melissa Dunphy) (Text: Jacqueline Goldfinger)
    • Calypso (Monica Houghton) (Text: Maggie Anderson)
    • Die Liebende (Peter Joseph Lindpaintner) (Text: Franz Karl Hiemer)
    • Die Amazone (Peter Joseph Lindpaintner) (Text: Ludwig Robert)
    • Die heimliche Linde (Peter Joseph Lindpaintner)
    • [No title] (Text: Robert Burns) [x]
    • Liebesunmuth (Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns) [x]
    • Widmung (Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns) [x]
    • Waldregenthal, das ohne Strahl (Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns) [x]
    • Neuer Frühling (Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns) [x]
    • Frühlingsträumen (Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns) [x]
    • Der Schatz (Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns) [x]
    • Wenn die Rosen lenzerwacht (Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns) [x]
    • Lustiges Lied (Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns) [x]
    • Mailied (Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns) [x]
    • Würde der Freundschaft (Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns) [x]
    • Ermuthigung (Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns) [x]
    • Des Deutschen Lied (Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns) [x]
    • Die Schwimmblase (Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns) [x]
    • Aufruf (Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns) [x]
    • Nacht (Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns) [x]
    • Der Rose deine Wange gleicht (Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns) (Text: Philipp Kaufmann after Robert Burns) ⊗
    • Bei Tag ist so viel Laufen (Heinrich Triest) (Text: Philipp Engelhard von Nathusius)
    • Schlage ruhig, liebes Herz (Heinrich Triest) (Text: Philipp Engelhard von Nathusius)
    • Was ich kann (Vinzenz Lachner) (Text: Anonymous)
    • Wenn man den kleinen Kindern in's Händele patscht (Vinzenz Lachner) (Text: Anonymous)
    • Wenn die Kinder klein noch sind (Vinzenz Lachner) (Text: Anonymous)
    • A total of 76 settings were added.
    • A total of 78 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
    • A total of 85 texts were modified.
    • A total of 88 settings were modified.
    2026-02-01
    • My fingers linger on textures (Monica Houghton) (Text: Linda Robiner Goodman) [x]
    • Leert uw Vogels kennen (Annette Kruisbrink) (Text: Justus Anton Deelder) [x]*
    • Moms of Silicon Valley (Monica Houghton)
    • [No title] (Text: Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer) [x]
    • Abe Lincoln (Monica Houghton, Alonso Malik Pirio) (Text: Langston Hughes)
    • Vor Tag (Oskar Wermann) [x]
    • I sit in one of the dives (Monica Houghton) (Text: W. H. Auden)
    • Wanneer de lente komt (Annette Kruisbrink) (Text: August Willemsen after Fernando Pessoa)
    • Whalefall (Monica Houghton) (Text: Elizabeth Bradfield)
    • Autumn (Annette Kruisbrink) (Text: Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall)
    • Not So Long Ago (Monica Houghton) [x]
    • Why the Sky is Blue (Monica Houghton)
    • If-ing (Monica Houghton) (Text: Langston Hughes)
    • Fireflies (Monica Houghton) [x]
    • Gedicht op het Schiedamse vocht (Annette Kruisbrink) (Text: François Haverschmidt)
    • Mluv ke mně dál (Bohuslav Martinů) (Text: Anonymous after Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer) ⊗
    • Ik ben lekker Stout (Annette Kruisbrink) (Text: Annie M. G. Schmidt)
    • Geen ijsberg, geen vulkaan (Annette Kruisbrink) (Text: Miriam Van hee) *
    • Quando vier a Primavera (Text: Fernando Pessoa , as Alberto Caeiro)
    • Men moet (Annette Kruisbrink) (Text: Gerrit Kouwenaar)
    • To the Saguaro Cactus Tree in the Desert Rain (Monica Houghton) (Text: James Wright)
    • Gone (Annette Kruisbrink) (Text: Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall)
    • Lord May I Come? (Annette Kruisbrink) (Text: Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall)
    • A Breath of Air (Monica Houghton) (Text: James Wright)
    • Andantino (Monica Houghton) (Text: Maggie Anderson) *
    • Neruda (Monica Houghton) (Text: James Wright)
    • To a Troubled Friend (Monica Houghton) (Text: James Wright)
    • Translation: Sleep, friend; tomorrow your soul  ENG (after Paul-Jean Toulet: In memoriam J. G. M., M. C. M. III. (Dormez, ami ; demain votre âme))
    • Acht jaren slepen zij de hardste steen (Annette Kruisbrink) (Text: Christa Widlund-Broer , as Anna Enquist)
    • The trouble with you is (Monica Houghton) (Text: James Wright)
    • Zie je ik hou van je (Annette Kruisbrink) (Text: Herman Gorter)
    • Wie blootsvoets loopt wordt in de waan gelaten (Annette Kruisbrink) (Text: Miriam Van hee) [x]
    • Because you are to me a song (Monica Houghton, Khyle Wooten) (Text: Langston Hughes)
    • Translation: Not you, ruby-tinted by Winter's hearth  ENG (after Paul-Jean Toulet: Toi qu'empourprait l'âtre d'hiver)
    • Anymore (Monica Houghton) [x]
    • Ballad of the Gypsy (Monica Houghton) (Text: Langston Hughes)
    • Opuštěná milá (Bohuslav Martinů) (Text: Ludmila Grossmannová-Brodská)
    • La Chitarra non suona più (Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns) [x]
    • Liebe und leide (Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns) [x]
    • O hätten wir, Liebchen (Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns) [x]
    • Die Parabel vom Gastwirth (Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns) [x]
    • Schlimmste (Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns) [x]
    • Antrag (Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns) [x]
    • Gefangen (Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns) [x]
    • A total of 67 settings were added.
    • A total of 44 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
    • A total of 53 texts were modified.
    • A total of 74 settings were modified.

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