This comprehensive collection is the best one-volume source available on the topic, with a mix of familiar recital standards and intriguing material awaiting discovery. Includes composers from c. 1900 into the 21st century. Some songs make their first published appearance in American Art Song: Gian Carlo Menotti's moving The Old Man's Song, Michael Tilson Thomas' inspired Grace, dedicated to Leonard Bernstein, and Aaron Jay Kernis' A Good Boy, as well a boogie-woogie art song by the editor, Blue Monday. The same songs appear in High Voice and Medium/Low Voice. Contents include works from: Samuel Barber, Amy March Cheney Beach, William Bolcom, John Alden Carpenter, Theodore Chanler, John Corigliano, Norman Dello Joio, Celius Dougherty, John Duke, Charles Griffes, Richard Hageman, John Harbison, Jake Heggie, Lee Hoiby, Charles Ives, Aaron Jay Kernis, Sven Lekberg, Kirke Mechem, Brad Mehldau, Gian Carlo Menotti, Ben Moore, John Jacob Niles, Thomas Pasatieri, Andre Previn, William Schuman, William Grant Still, Virgil Thomson, Michael Tilson Thomas and Richard Walters.