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31 song texts, 105 settings, 56 placeholders, and 17 translations (with modifications to 112 texts and 120 settings) have been added as follows:

    2025-10-03
    • Ghasel (Karl Maria Löbl) (Text: Franz Josef Zlatnik)
    • Besuch (Karl Maria Löbl) (Text: Margarete Seemann)
    • A total of 4 settings were added.
    • A total of 2 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
    • A total of 2 texts were modified.
    • A total of 4 settings were modified.
    2025-10-02
    • Love Song (Florence Beatrice Price) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar) [x]
    • Rhapsody (Florence Beatrice Price) (Text: William Stanley Braithwaite) [x]
    • The Daisy (Florence Beatrice Price) (Text: Arthur Guiterman) [x]
    • Little Sweetness (Florence Beatrice Price) (Text: Anna LaFoe) [x]
    • Let’s Build a Little Love Nest (Florence Beatrice Price) (Text: Florence Beatrice Price) [x]
    • Strange Borders (Florence Beatrice Price) (Text: Maud Ludington Cain) [x]
    • On the Height (Florence Beatrice Price) (Text: Eunice Tietjens, née Hammond) [x]
    • They Lie, They Lie (Florence Beatrice Price) (Text: David Morton) [x]
    • Free Lyrics (Florence Beatrice Price) (Text: Don Vincent Gray) [x]*
    • The Island of My Dreams (Florence Beatrice Price) (Text: Grace Linley) [x]
    • When the Green Lies Over the Earth, (Florence Beatrice Price) (Text: Angelina Weld Grimké) [x]
    • String Stars for Pearls (Florence Beatrice Price) (Text: John Urban Nicolson) [x]
    • The Song is So Old (Florence Beatrice Price) (Text: Hermann Hagedorn) [x]
    • Wanderer (Marie Marjori Hajary) (Text: Helle von Heister) [x]
    • A Sea Ghost (Margaret Bonds) (Text: Frank Dempster Sherman)
    • The Superstitious Ghost (Florence Beatrice Price) (Text: Arthur Guiterman) [x]
    • Spanisches Ständchen (Ludwig Liebe) (Text: Ludwig Liebe)
    • Grab' tief nur in die Erden (Text: Franz Alfred Muth)
    • Wünsche (Ludwig Liebe) (Text: Emil Brämer, Dr.)
    • Translation: The Mill  ENG (after Franz von Kobell: Die Mühl' (Mei' Vater sagt, da moanst ja do'))
    • Die Mühl' (Ignaz Lachner) (Text: Franz von Kobell)
    • Translation: Therefore I am content  ENG (after Franz von Kobell: Bi z'fried'n davontweg'n (Mit vier Roß' wirf i' nit leicht um))
    • Bi z'fried'n davontweg'n (Ignaz Lachner) (Text: Franz von Kobell)
    • Translation: In small steps!  ENG (after Franz von Kobell: Schö kloaweis (Scho' kloaweis muaßt d' in Alln handln))
    • Schö kloaweis (Ignaz Lachner) (Text: Franz von Kobell)
    • Tief Blick in Blick (Franz Paul Lachner, Heinrich August Marschner) (Text: Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter)
    • Nachts (Conradin Kreutzer) (Text: Friedrich Maximilian Hessemer)
    • Die beiden Sänger (Conradin Kreutzer) (Text: Friedrich Maximilian Hessemer)
    • Lasst euern Groll, bevor die Sonne sinkt (Ludwig Liebe) (Text: Albert Grün after Bernard Barton)
    • A total of 29 settings were added.
    • A total of 29 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
    • A total of 36 texts were modified.
    • A total of 43 settings were modified.
    2025-10-01
    • Market day in Martinique (Margaret Bonds) (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]
    • Qu'est ce que vous diriez d'une chanson... (Marie Marjori Hajary) (Text: Bernard Goberville) [x]
    • Don’t speak (Margaret Bonds) (Text: Janice Lovoos) [x]
    • Birth (Margaret Bonds) (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]
    • The Hymn (Stacey V. Gibbs) (Text: Julia Ward Howe)
    • Tell All My Father’s People (Undine Eliza Anna Smith, as Undine Smith Moore)
    • La Fidelité (Marie Marjori Hajary) (Text: Franz Toussaint after Li-Tai-Po) [x] ⊗
    • Martin’s Lament (Undine Eliza Anna Smith, as Undine Smith Moore)
    • Der Schiffer (Anton Wallerstein) [x]
    • voice in the wilderness (Text: Robert Hayden) *
    • The New York blues (Margaret Bonds) (Text: Malone Dickerson) [x]
    • Translation: Awakening From Sleep On A Spring Day  ENG (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata , as Shigeyoshi Ob Ata after Li-Tai-Po)
    • Sleep Song (Margaret Bonds) (Text: Joyce Kilmer)
    • Le soleil a fondu (Marie Marjori Hajary) (Text: Gilles d'Antraigues) [x]
    • Don’t you want to be free? (Margaret Bonds) (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]
    • Refraction (Marie Marjori Hajary) (Text: Gilles d'Antraigues) [x]
    • Translation: Night song  ENG (after Friedrich Heinrich Oser: Nachtlied (Milde dort oben))
    • A l'Androgyne celeste (Marie Marjori Hajary) (Text: Gilles d'Antraigues) [x]
    • I believe in God (Margaret Bonds) (Text: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois) [x]
    • Flûte de Jade (Marie Marjori Hajary) (Text: Franz Toussaint) [x]
    • When the dove enters in (Margaret Bonds) (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]
    • Ce soir je voudrais pleurer… (Marie Marjori Hajary) (Text: Anonymous after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x] ⊗
    • The way we dance in Chicago/Harlem (Margaret Bonds) (Text: Langston Hughes)
    • By the Pool (Irene Britton Smith) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
    • Be a Little Savage with Me (Margaret Bonds) (Text: Langston Hughes)
    • Froissées les corolles (Marie Marjori Hajary) (Text: Gilles d'Antraigues) [x]
    • They Tell Me Martin Is Dead (Undine Eliza Anna Smith, as Undine Smith Moore)
    • [No title] (Margaret Bonds) (Text: Vernon Glasser) [x]
    • The moon winked twice (Margaret Bonds) [x]
    • Un Jour de Printemps (Marie Marjori Hajary) (Text: Franz Toussaint after Li-Tai-Po) [x]
    • Translation: Where to live? In what shadow  ENG (after Jean Richepin: Où vivre ? Dans quelle ombre)
    • Lonely Little Maiden by the Sea (Margaret Bonds) (Text: Aurnaud Wendell Bontemps)
    • With two white roses on her breasts (Text: Countee Cullen)
    • Oh God, How Many Are Them That Hate Me (Undine Eliza Anna Smith, as Undine Smith Moore)
    • Angels Waiting At The Door (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
    • Sweet nothings in Spanish (Margaret Bonds) (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]
    • Naturgesetz (Emil Krause) [x]
    • You’re pretty special (Margaret Bonds) (Text: Dorothy Sachs) [x]
    • No Man Has Seen His Face (Margaret Bonds) (Text: Janice Lovoos)
    • The price of a love affair (Margaret Bonds) (Text: Ernest Richman) [x]
    • Naaldeke (Marie Marjori Hajary) (Text: Margot Vos) [x]
    • Ombres (Marie Marjori Hajary) (Text: Gilles d'Antraigues) [x]
    • Diary of a divorcee (Margaret Bonds) (Text: Janice Lovoos) [x]
    • [No title] (Text: Li-Tai-Po) [x]
    • Cowboy from South Parkway (Margaret Bonds) (Text: Langston Hughes)
    • When the sun goes down in rhumba land. (Margaret Bonds) (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]
    • Trees of the Night (Irene Britton Smith) [x]
    • Translation: A Pair of Swallows  ENG (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata , as Shigeyoshi Ob Ata after Li-Tai-Po) ⊗
    • Tasmania (Marie Marjori Hajary) [x]
    • Voo doo man (Margaret Bonds) (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]
    • Chanson Tango (Marie Marjori Hajary) [x]
    • Pretty little flower of the tropics (Margaret Bonds) (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]
    • Sommernacht (Marie Marjori Hajary) [x]
    • Down and Out (Margaret Bonds) (Text: Langston Hughes)
    • Lord, Thou knowest (Undine Eliza Anna Smith, as Undine Smith Moore)
    • Tonight I feel like crying… (Marie Marjori Hajary) [x]
    • Beyond the end of the trail (Margaret Bonds) (Text: Roger Chaney.) [x]
    • Les miroirs (Marie Marjori Hajary) (Text: Gilles d'Antraigues) [x]
    • Ballade d'un assasin (Marie Marjori Hajary) (Text: Bernard Goberville) [x]
    • Sehnsucht (Anton Wallerstein) [x]
    • Liedje van verlangen (Marie Marjori Hajary) (Text: Peggy van Kerckhoven) [x]*
    • Noch schimmert durch das Fenster (Hans Koessler, Emil Krause, Julius Schladebach, Anton Wallerstein, Nicolai von Wilm) (Text: Franz Bernhard Heinrich Wilhelm, Freiherr von Gaudy)
    • Translation: Adelwold ed Emma  ITA (after Friedrich Anton Franz Bertrand: Adelwold und Emma (Möcht' es meinem Wunsch gelingen))
    • Translation: Suona ancora una volta, o arpa  ITA (after Johann Gaudenz Freiherr von Salis-Seewis: Abschied von der Harfe (Noch einmal tön', o Harfe))
    • Translation: Sera  ITA (after Johann Ludwig Tieck: Abend (Wie ist es denn, daß trüb und schwer))
    • Translation: Canto serale  ITA (after Friedrich Leopold, Graf zu Stolberg-Stolberg: Abendlied (Groß und rothentflammet schwebet))
    • Translation: Canto serale per l’amata lontana  ITA (after August Wilhelm Schlegel: Abendlied für die Entfernte (Hinaus, mein Blick! hinaus ins Thal!))
    • Translation: Scena notturna  ITA (after Johann Peter Silbert: Abendbilder (Still beginnt's im Hain zu thauen))
    • Translation: Ho preso confidenza con la notte  ITA (after Robert Frost: Acquainted with the night (I have been one acquainted with the night))
    • Translation: Ditemi dove, in quale contrada  ITA (after François Villon: Ballade des dames du temps jadis (Dictes-moy où, n’en quel pays))
    • Translation: Fratelli umani, che dopo noi vivrete  ITA (after François Villon: Ballade des pendus (Frères humains, qui après nous vivez))
    • Translation: La Luna è tramontata  ITA (after Sappho: Δέδυκε μὲν ἀ σελάννα)
    • Arise my love, my fair one (Cyril Meir Scott, Undine Eliza Anna Smith, as Undine Smith Moore) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
    • A total of 72 settings were added.
    • A total of 73 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
    • A total of 74 texts were modified.
    • A total of 73 settings were modified.

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