This collection includes 63 art songs with extensive historical introductory notes. Content is the same for high voice and medium/low voice volumes, with newly published transpositions as necessary. Contents include: The Birds; A Charm of Lullabies (5 songs); Evening, Morning, Night; Fish in the Unruffled Lakes (6 songs); The Holy Sonnets of John Donne (8 songs); On This Island (5 songs); Sechs Holderlin Fragmente (6 songs); Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo; Songs from the Chinese (6 songs, transcribed for voice and piano); Three Songs from the Heart of the Matter (with horn); Winter Words (8 songs, plus 2 songs cut from the cycle); and Two Ballads (duets).