Paul Sperry has edited, compiled, and written prefaces for numerous collections of American art songs for a variety of publishers. Many of these collections are available online. Click on the cover of any songbook to order it. In addition to the links below, all of these publications are available through classicalmusicrep.com.

DoverAmerican Art Songs of the Turn of the Century
Edited by Paul Sperry, this publication collects 42 of the best songs of a halcyon period in American music, richly varied in mood, sentiment and musical character, including classics by Edward MacDowell, Charles Ives, Amy Beach, Carrie Jacobs-Bond, Oley Speaks, Ethelbert Nevin, John Philip Sousa, Charles Wakefield Cadman and 14 other composers. Reprinted from rare original song sheets in full piano and vocal arrangements. (DOVER ISBN 0486267490)
Dover Songs of An Innocent Age
Collected and Edited by Paul Sperry. Oh That We 2 Were Maying(Nevin) * One Spring Morning (Nevin E) * Orsola's Song (Nevin E) * Nocturne (Nevin E) * Auf Ihrem Grab (Griffes C) * Whol Lag Ich Einst In(Griffes C) * Tell Me Where Is Fancy(Gilbert) * Pirate Song (Gilbert H) * Ariette (Beach Hha) * Take O Take Those Lips (Beach Hha) * O Mistress Mine (Beach Hha) * Hark Hark The Lark (Loomis H) * Long Ago (Macdowell E) * A Maid Sings Light (Macdowell) * Euthanasia (Chadwick G) * Capture Of Bacchus, The (Buck D) . (G. Schirmer)
DoverVote for Names
Compiled,
and with a preface by Paul Sperry. Contents: Songs by Richard Bales, David Diamond, John Duke, William Flanagan, Lee Hoiby, Charles Ives, Morten Lauridsen, Wallingford Riegger, Ned Rorem, Elie Siegmeister, Virgil Thomson, George Walker and Robert Ward, compiled by Paul Sperry. (Peermusic Classical score 61655-211 $16.50)
FarwellThirty Four Songs on Poems of Emily Dickenson
Introductory note by by Paul Sperry. Contents: Savior, Unto Me, As If the Sea, Good Morning, Me!, I'll Tell You How the Sun Rose, Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers, The Sabbath, These Saw Vision, I Never Saw a Moor, The Little Tippler, Aristocracy, The Test, Summer's Armies, The Level Bee, With a FLower, Presentiment. (Boosey and Hawkes VAB-209)
 John Duke The John Duke Songbook
Edited and with a preface by Paul Sperry. His output of over 260 songs, mostly settings of American and British poets, is a rich repertoire of material for singers at every level of accomplishment. This new volume, John Duke - Richard Cory and Selected Songs, issues in one volume all the songs by John Duke that Carl Fischer published in all the keys in which they were originally available. (Carl Fischer)
Daron Hagen Songbook The Daron Hagen Songbook
Forward by Paul Sperry. Sixty songs (many of them from cycles, and three of them drawn from stage works) draws on twenty-five years of song composing and is remarkable for its depth and variety. Hagen's catholic taste in poets allows him to range from the great astringent English Poet Philip Larkin and Irish Poet Paul Mudoon, a frequent operatic collaborator, to younger American poets such as Alice Wirth Gray and Susan Griffin. This collection also includes several of Hagen's anthology cycles which use poems by different poets related to a single theme: Love in a Life, which sets poems by Browning, Alsadir, Dickinson, Byron, Roethke, Whitman and Lodge and The Heart of the Stranger, which includes poems by Codrescu, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Blake and Houseman, among others. (Carl Fischer ISBN 0825849160)
Songs of Griffes The Songs of Charles Griffes
(In volumes for High, Medium, and Low Voice) Edited, and with an ointroduction by Paul Sperry. Contents: The First Snowfall, The Half-Ring Moon, An Old Song Resung, Sorrow of Mydath, La Fuite de la Lune, We'll to the Woods, and gather may, Phantoms, and Five Songs from the Chinese.
(G. Schirmer HL50488510 US $7.95)
American Encores American Encores
Selected by Paul Sperry, with a preface and performance suggestions. Includes songs by Beach, Beaser, Berg, Billings, Bowles, Buck, Chanler, Cipullo, Cowell, Dougherty, Foster, Hundley, Paulus, Swenson, Talma, Thomson, and Yeston. (Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-386328-6)

ChanlerThe Collected Songs of Theodore Chanler
Edited by Paul Sperry. Contents: Grandma (Chanler), The Children, Once Upon A Time, Wind, Sleep, The Rose, Spick And Span, Moo Is A Cow, One Of Us The Ship Of Rio, Old Shellover, Cake And Sack Tillie, Mistress Hew, A Shepherd, A One-Eyed Tailor, April, May, June, Cottony Cottony, etc.(G. Schirmer 0793540453)