Lyric Companion
Composer

J. Barnes

32 works in the catalog — read each text with IPA transcriptions and translations.

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LIEDER · 32

Never More Than Nothin'

1991·a-miracle-in-legacy
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Finding Voice

1991·a-miracle-in-legacy
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Grown from a Miracle

1991·a-miracle-in-legacy
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Inspiration

1991·a-sable-jubilee
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Luxury

1991·a-sable-jubilee
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Elevation

1991·a-sable-jubilee
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Black Annie Hall

1991·at-ease
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Black Lead in a Nancy Meyers Film

1991·at-ease
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Bathed in Black Maternity

1991
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Summer Night

1991·epoch-of-hughes
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Golden

1991
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Heart, Be Brave

1991
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I Am Not Your God

1991
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When the Sun Goes Down

1991·i-will-follow-you-into-the-dark
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Invocation

1991
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John 3:16

1991
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Normal Never Was

1991
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Peace

1991
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Do Right

1991·portraits-douglass-and-tubman
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Death or Liberty

1991·portraits-douglass-and-tubman
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Every Great Dream

1991·portraits-douglass-and-tubman
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Home

1991·songs-for-the-african-violet
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Is it Fair?

1991·songs-for-the-african-violet
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Flowers

1991·songs-for-the-african-violet
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Crowned

1991·songs-for-the-african-violet
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Let Me Make Songs for the People

1991·songs-for-the-people
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Taking Names

1991
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It is a painful and harassing business

1991·the-greatest-personal-privation
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Much as I should miss Mother

1991·the-greatest-personal-privation
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In every probability

1991·the-greatest-personal-privation
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We wish to act. We may yet

1991·the-greatest-personal-privation
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Father, mother, son, daughter, man

1991·the-greatest-personal-privation
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Never More Than Nothin'

1991·a-miracle-in-legacy
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Finding Voice

1991·a-miracle-in-legacy
EN

Grown from a Miracle

1991·a-miracle-in-legacy
EN

Inspiration

1991·a-sable-jubilee
EN

Luxury

1991·a-sable-jubilee
EN

Elevation

1991·a-sable-jubilee
EN

Black Annie Hall

1991·at-ease
EN

Black Lead in a Nancy Meyers Film

1991·at-ease
EN