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    * Ya se acerca la noche, Amor () [x]
      E. Halffter
    * Ya tengo dueño (Cuando al campo salgo) (Text: Juan Bautista de Arriaza y Superviela)
      M. de Ledesma
    * Yam-lid (Kh'hob fargesn fargesn ale libste) ENG YDS (Text: Chaim Nachman Bialek after Judah Ha-Levy)
      J. Hamburg
    * Yar Nazani () (Text: Hamastegh) [x] *
      A. Hovhaness
    * Yaraví (En lo más profundo de la sierra Andina) (Text: César Monroy) *
      G. Guevara
    * Yarmouth Fair (As I rode down to Yarmouth fair) (Text: Hal Collins)
      P. Warlock
    * Yasmin (How splendid in the morning grows the lily: with what grace he throws) (Text: James Elroy Flecker)
      T. Dobson
    * Ye banks and braes (Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon) (Text: Robert Burns)
      R. Quilter
    * Ye banks and braes o' bonnie doon (Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon ) GER (Text: Robert Burns)
      M. Ravel, A. Beach
    * Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call (Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call) (Text: William Wordsworth)
      G. Finzi
    * Ye gentle gales (Ye gentle gales, that fan the air)
      J. Eccles
    * Ye happy swains (Ye happy swains, whose nymphs are kind)
      H. Purcell
    * Ye hooded witches, baleful shapes that moan (Ye hooded witches, baleful shapes that moan) (Text: Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon)
      D. Wickens
    * Ye little birds that sit and sing (Ye little birds that sit and sing) (Text: Thomas Heywood)
      C. Parry
    * Ye restless thoughts (Ye restless thoughts that harbour discontent)
      J. Wilbye
    * Ye sacred Muses (Ye sacred Muses, race of Jove)
      W. Byrd
    * Ye sheperds of this pleasant vale (Ye shepherds of this pleasant vale ) GER (Text: William Hamilton)
      L. Beethoven
    * Ye that do live in pleasures (Ye that do live in pleasures plenty )
      J. Wilbye
    * Ye thrilled me once (Ye thrilled me once, ye mournful strains ) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
      C. Parry
    * Ye tuneful Muses (With him he brings the partner of his throne)
      H. Purcell
    * Ye voices that arose (Ye voices, that arose) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
      C. Burleigh
    * Year that trembled (Year that trembled and reel'd beneath me!) (Text: Walt Whitman)
    * Year's at the spring (The year's at the spring) (Text: Robert Browning)
      A. Beach, H. Hadley, N. Rorem, M. Alsop, I. Atkins, F. Ayres, G. Bantock, A. Behrend, J. Berger, K. Black, W. Blair, A. Bode, M. Brahe, N. Cain, M. Caldwell, E. Carter, J. Caruthers, R. Clark, H. Clarke, A. Cripps, N. Curtis, J. Dalhousie, K. David, T. Riego, W. Duncan, E. Nevin
    * Years of the modern () (Text: Norman Dello Joio after Walt Whitman) [x]
      N. Dello Joio
    * Yeavering Bell (Just to see the rain) (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
      F. Hart
    * Yell'ham-Wood's story (Coomb-Firtrees say that Life is a moan) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
      G. Finzi
    * Yellow hair (Never shall a young man) (Text: William Butler Yeats) *
      M. Dalby, J. Duke, F. Routh, R. Warren
    * Yellow wine (I saw a ship a-sailing, a-sailing, a-sailing ) (Text: John Masefield)
      C. Griffes, T. Dobson, H. Gardiner, E. Martin, R. Pennicuick, R. Greaves
    * Yes, call me by my pet-name! (Yes, call me by my pet-name! let me hear) GER (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
      E. Freer
    * Yes, I have a thousand tongues (Yes, I have a thousand tongues) (Text: Stephen Crane)
      R. Hermann
    * Yes I hear them (Yes I hear them) (Text: Witter Bynner) [x] *
      N. Rorem
    * yes is a pleasant country () (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) [x]
      M. Blitzstein
    * Yes, that's the way things are (In Terezin in the so-called park ) ENG (Text: after Koleba (M. Kosek, H. Löwy, Bachner) *
      L. Laitman
    * Yes, thou art like the flower of May (Yes, thou art like the flower of May) DUT SPA RUS HUN ENG ITA FRE CHI (Text: after Heinrich Heine) [x]
      F. Hiller
    * Yes, thou art wretched (Yes, thou art wretched) ENG FRE (Text: after Heinrich Heine) [x]
      F. Sawyer
    * Yes! let me like a soldier fall (Yes! let me like a soldier fall) (Text: Edward Fitzball)
      W. Wallace
    * Yesterday (Now I lay me down to sleep. Pray the Lord my soul to keep. While I dream, recall ) (Text: Gary Bachlund)
      G. Bachlund
    * Yet Gentle will the Griffin be (The moon? It is a griffin's egg ) (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
    * Yet Gentle Will the Griffin Be (What Grandpa told the children) (The moon? It is a griffin's egg ) (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
      M. Taylor, J. Heggie
    * Yet, love is beautiful indeed (Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed) GER (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
      A. Kaiser, E. Freer, B. Naylor, C. Surinach
    * Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed (Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed) GER (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
      A. Kaiser, E. Freer, B. Naylor, C. Surinach
    * Yet once again, let us our measures move (Yet once again, let us our measures move) (Text: Thomas Campion)
      E. Rubbra
    * Yet, sweet, take heed (Yet, sweet, take heed, all sweets are hard to get)
      J. Wilbye
    * Yidn zingen: ani mamin () (Text: Halpern Leivick) [x]
      L. Levin
    * Yield unto God the Lord (Yield unto God the Lord) (Text: William Leighton, Sir) [x]
      R. Johnson
    * Yksin (Taivas välkkyväisin jalokivin) (Text: Veikko Antero Koskenniemi)
      Y. Kilpinen, L. Madetoja
    * Yksin (Yksin istun yksinäinen) (Text: Aune Krohn) [x]
      T. Kuula
    * Yli kukkien (Hän kulkevi kuin yli kukkien) (Text: Eino Leino)
      T. Kuula
    * Yli maiden ja metsien käy () (Text: Einari Vuorela) [x]
      J. Kokkonen
    * Yllätä ikuinen yö (Yllätä ikuinen yö) (Text: L. Onerva) [x]
      T. Kuula
    * Ynglingen (Vind, som mig smeker och lämnar) (Text: Johan Ludvig Runeberg)
      E. Fabritius
    * Yno yn hwyrddydd Ebrill (Yno yn hwyrddydd Ebrill ) WEL (Text: Islwyn Ffowc Elis after Katharine Tynan)
      H. Roberton
    * (Yö saapuu. Päivä on poissa ) (Text: Eino Leino)
      T. Kuula
    * Yo no quiero embarcarme (Yo no quiero embarcarme ) (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
      L. Beethoven
    * Yo sé cuál el objeto (Yo sé cuál el objeto) ENG (Text: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer)
      F. Mompou
    * Yo soy ardiente, yo soy morena (- Yo soy ardiente, yo soy morena) ENG (Text: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer)
      F. Mompou
    * Yoduno (Vertraue mir, Yoduno ) (Text: (Johann Christoph) Friedrich Haug)
      J. André, J. Zumsteeg, J. Zumsteeg
    * Yolante und Marie [song cycle]
      R. Farber
    * Yon wild mossy mountains (Yon wild mossy mountains sae lofty and wide ) (Text: Robert Burns)
      P. Grainger
    * Yonder see (Yonder see the morning blink) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
      B. Burrows, K. Douglas, S. Kagen, L. Russell, F. Swain
    * Yonder see the morning blink (Yonder see the morning blink) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
      B. Burrows, K. Douglas, S. Kagen, L. Russell, F. Swain
    * Yonder stands a lovely creature (Yonder stands a lovely creature) (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
      G. Butterworth
    * Yöperhonen (Yöperhonen nuori se nukkui ) (Text: Eino Leino)
      Y. Kilpinen
    * Yöperhonen nuori se nukkui (Yöperhonen nuori se nukkui ) (Text: Eino Leino)
    * Yorkshire pudding () (Text: Ogden Nash) [x] *
      P. Hagemann
    * Yorkshire pudding [Table Talk 1] () (Text: Ogden Nash) [x] *
    * You are like a flower (You are like a flower) DUT SPA RUS HUN ENG ITA FRE CHI (Text: after Heinrich Heine) [x]
      G. Rochberg
    * You are mine (If I bid you, you will come ) (Text: Arthur Symons)
      L. Ronald
    * You are my sky (You are my sky; beneath your circling kindness ) (Text: Sir John Collings Squire)
      I. Gurney
    * You Are Old, Father William (You are old, father William, the young man said,) (Text: Lewis Carroll)
      L. Lehmann
    * You are the evening cloud (You are the evening cloud ) ENG GER (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore)
      E. Horsman
    * You ask me (You ask me what I thought about ) (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) *
      L. Laitman
    * You bound strong sandals on my feet (You bound strong sandals on my feet) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
      H. Milligan
    * You cannot dream (You cannot dream ) (Text: Humbert Wolfe) *
      G. Holst, S. Adler, M. Head
    * You enter my thoughts () (Text: John Hall) [x] *
      J. Heggie
    * You find a prince in your bath () (Text: Lawrence Murphy) [x] *
      K. Bleau
    * You gentle nymphs (You gentle nymphs that on the meadows play)
      C. Parry
    * You interfering ladies (You interfering ladies, you) (Text: William Henry Davies)
    * You interfering ladies, you (You interfering ladies, you) (Text: William Henry Davies)
      W. Webber
    * You left me, sweet, two legacies (You left me - Sire - two legacies ) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
      T. Pasatieri
    * You magic power () [x]
      J. Sermilä
    * you no (you no) (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
    * You pretty flowers (You pretty flowers that smile for summer's sake)
      J. Farmer
    * You say 'tis Love (You say 'tis Love creates the pain) (Text: John Dryden)
      H. Purcell
    * You sea! (You sea! I resign myself to you also--I guess what you mean) (Text: Walt Whitman)
      B. Lees
    * You shall not go a-maying (You shall not go a-maying when the thorn is white once more) (Text: Sir Walter Mordaunt Currie) *
      C. Gibbs, M. Head
    * You silly donkey () (Text: Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford) [x] *
      M. Horder
    * You smile upon your friend today (You smile upon your friend today ) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
      J. Ireland, A. Cripps
    * You snap () (Text: David Wolfson) [x] *
      D. Wolfson
    * You spotted snakes (You spotted snakes with double tongue ) (Text: William Shakespeare)
      J. Harrison, F. Keel, M. Blitzstein, E. Křenek, A. Beach
    * You take my heart with tears (You take my heart with tears) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
      C. Gibbs, P. Fricker
    * You, the Young Rainbow () (Text: Edith Sitwell) [x] *
      N. Rorem
    * You tossed a blanket from the bed (You tossed a blanket from the bed) (Text: T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot)
      H. Swanson
    * You were glad to-night (You were glad tonight: And now you've gone away ) (Text: Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon)
      J. Carpenter, I. Fischer, A. Rowley
    * You who celebrate bygones (You who celebrate bygones!) (Text: Walt Whitman)
      V. Persichetti
    * Youkali (C'est presqu'au bout du monde) (Text: Roger Fernay) *
      K. Weill
    * You'll be sorry (Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) *
      J. Mitchell
    * Young and simple though I am (Young and simple though I am) (Text: Thomas Campion)
      N. Lanier
    * Young bride () (Text: (James Mercer) Langston Hughes) [x] *
      S. Raphling
    * Young Jockey was the blythest lad (Young Jockey was the blythest lad) (Text: Robert Burns)
      J. Haydn
    * Young love (Are not the joys of morning sweeter) (Text: William Blake)
      G. Bantock, F. Hart, O. Luening
    * Young Love lies sleeping (Young Love lies sleeping ) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
      A. Somervell, P. Fletcher, J. Coulthard
    * Young night thought (All night long and every night ) (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
      S. Homer, A. Foote, E. Crowningshield, E. Falk, J. Groocock, H. Hadley, G. Peel, M. Radnor
    * Young Thirsis' fate (Young Thirsis' fate ye hills and groves deplore) (Text: Nahum Tate)
      H. Purcell
    * Young Thyrsis lay (Young Thyrsis lay in Phyllis' lap ) ENG (Text: after Giovanni Battista Guarini)
      W. Porter
    * Your Awful Voice (Your awful voice I hear and I obey) (Text: Thomas Shadwell)
      H. Purcell
    * Your body () (Text: David Wolfson) [x] *
      D. Wolfson
    * Your brother has a falcon (Your brother has a falcon ) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
      J. Ireland, F. Hueffer, D. Stewart
    * Your eyën two (Your eyën two will slay me suddenly ) (Text: Geoffrey Chaucer)
      R. Vaughan Williams, A. Bax
    * Your eyes so deep () (Text: James Weldon Johnson) [x]
      H. Burleigh
    * Your face is beautiful (Your face is beautiful beyond all other faces) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
      G. Baxter
    * Your faire lookes enflame my desire (Your faire lookes enflame my desire) (Text: Thomas Campion)
      T. Campion
    * Your feet as glad and light (Your feet as glad) (Text: William Ernest Henley)
      C. Willeby
    * Your hands lie open (Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass) (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
      E. Farrar, R. Vaughan Williams, G. Boyle, H. Clough-Leighter, E. Cone, F. Converse, J. Diercks, R. Manton, C. Orr, M. Someren-Godfery, E. Warren, M. Gideon
    * Your heart has trembled (Your heart has trembled to my tongue) (Text: William Ernest Henley)
      F. Hart, L. Ronald
    * Your heart has trembled to my tongue (Your heart has trembled to my tongue) (Text: William Ernest Henley)
      F. Hart, L. Ronald
    * Your lips are wine () (Text: James Weldon Johnson) [x]
      H. Burleigh
    * Your shining eyes and golden hair (Your shining eyes and golden hair)
      T. Bateson
    * You're lovely as a flower (You're lovely as a flower) DUT SPA RUS HUN ENG ITA FRE CHI (Text: after Heinrich Heine) [x]
      A. Heller
    * Youth (We have tomorrow bright before us) (Text: (James Mercer) Langston Hughes) *
      D. Gilliam
    * Youth (In an harbour grene aslepe whereas I lay) (Text: R. Wever, probably Richard Wever)
      E. Moeran, P. Warlock, P. Warlock, C. Gibbs
    * Youth (The dew is on the grasses, dear) (Text: Georgia Douglas Johnson)
      G. Bachlund
    * Youth (Within a primrose wood I lay content ) (Text: Clifford Bax)
      A. Bax
    * Youth (Loveliest of trees, the cherry now ) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
      R. Baksa, D. Arditti, G. Butterworth, C. Dougherty, J. Duke, I. Gurney, M. Horder, E. Moeran, C. Orr, G. Peel, J. Raynor, A. Rosser, A. Somervell, D. Steele, G. Getty, R. Manton, R. Abramson, K. Bissell, G. Cockshott, W. Colson, E. Cone, V. Duke, R. Field, H. Górecki, W. Grant, I. Gurney, J. Hamilton, M. Herbert, C. Herreshoff, A. Leichtling, L. Mann, C. Manney, W. Manson, C. Marillier, K. Mechem, H. Priestley-Smith, H. Proctor-Gregg, H. Roberton, C. Ross, S. Wilson, C. Woolley, J. Edmunds
    * Youth and Age (Though leaves are many, the root is one ) (Text: William Butler Yeats)
    * Youth and love (To the heart of youth the world is a highwayside ) ITA (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
      R. Vaughan Williams
    * Youth and Love I (Once only by the garden gate) (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
    * Youth and Love II (To the heart of youth the world is a highwayside ) ITA (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
    * Youth and the pilgrim (Gray pilgrim, you have journeyed far) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
      B. Murray
    * Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night (Youth, large, lusty, loving -- youth full of grace, force, fascination ) (Text: Walt Whitman)
      N. Rorem, W. Wijdeveld, E. Spalding, D. Hagen
    * Youth's Spring-Tribute (On this sweet bank your head thrice sweet and dear ) (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
      J. Ireland, A. Shepherd
    * Youth's the season made for joys (Youth's the season made for joys ) (Text: John Gay)
      E. Carter, G. Bachlund
    * Yrtit tummat (Yrtit tummat etelän yössä ) (Text: L. Onerva)
      L. Madetoja
    * Ystävälleni ullakkokamarissa (Kuin kohtalosi linnun tumma siipi) (Text: Veikko Antero Koskenniemi)
      H. Wessman
    * Ystävien piiri pienentyy (Ystävien piiri pienentyy ) (Text: Veikko Antero Koskenniemi)
      Y. Kilpinen
    * Yttersta domen [song cycle]
      N. Berg
    * Yung-Yang (I was a child in Yung-yang) (Text: Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng after Bai Juyi) [x]
      G. Bantock
    * Yver, vous n'estes qu'un vilain (Yver, vous n'estes qu'un vilain) ENG GER (Text: Charles, Duc d'Orléans)
      C. Debussy

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