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.

L. Berkeley: How love came in - B. Britten: Master Kilby - B. Britten: O Waly, Waly - B. Britten: The Salley Gardens - A. Copland: The Boatmen's Dance - A. Copland: I bought me a cat - A. Copland: Long time ago - G. Finzi: Oh fair to see - G. Finzi: Since we loved - M. Head: Money, O! - J. Ireland: Spring Sorrow - H. Purcell (realisations by B. Britten): Fairest Isle - H. Purcell (realisations by B. Britten): I attempt from love's sickness to fly - H. Purcell (realisations by B. Britten): I'll sail upon the Dog-star - R. Quilter: Barbara Allen - R. Quilter: O mistress mine - R. Quilter: Take, O take those lips away - R. Quilter: Weep you no more - N. Rorem: Little Elegy - N. Rorem: The Nightingale - N. Rorem: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - R. Vaughan Williams: Bright is the ring of words - R. Vaughan Williams: Linden Lea - R. Vaughan Williams: The Vagabond - P. Warlock: As Ever I Saw