The selection of songs has been carefully considered to represent a variety of composers from primarily the twentieth century. Songs were chosen that are appropriate challenges to the advancing teenage singer, or for the university student.

D. Argento: Dirge - L. Bernstein: I hate music! - F. Bridge: Love went a-riding - B. Britten: The Nurse's Song - B. Britten: O Waly, Waly - B. Britten: Sail on, sail on - B. Britten: Sephestia's Lullaby - A. Copland: At the River - A. Copland: Heart, we will forget him - A. Copland: The Little Horses - A. Copland: Simple Gifts - A. Copland: The world feels dusty - G. Finzi: It was a lover and his lass - J. Ireland: Spring Sorrow - C. Hubert H. Parry: A Spring Song - H. Purcell (realisations by B. Britten): I attempt from love's sickness to fly - H. Purcell (realisations by B. Britten):If music be the food of love (1st version) - R. Quilter: Dream Valley - R. Quilter: Love's Philosophy - R. Quilter: Weep you no more - N. Rorem: Little Elegy - N. Rorem: Love - C. V. Stanford: A Lullaby - R. Vaughan Williams: Bright is the ring of words - R. Vaughan Williams: Linden Lea - R. Vaughan Williams: The sky above the roof