I'm limiting my suggestions to songs in the "big five" Western languages:
English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish, and not including the
numerous possibilities in Russian, Polish, Danish, and other languages -
in deference to your caveat that you are young, and therefore I'm guessing
not all that experienced with diction in those other languages.
I've also tried to stick with songs about tigers, cats, and other mammals.
Therefore, no songs about fish, reptiles, birds, or insects in my list.
Songs Featuring Tigers:
Benjamin Britten's SONGS AND PROVERBS OF WILLIAM BLAKE includes a setting
of William Blake's "Tyger, tyger, burning bright". There's also a setting
by William Bolcom in his SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE, another by
Virgil Thomson in his FIVE SONGS FROM WILLIAM BLAKE, and individual
settings by George Antheil, Granville Bantock, Rutland Boughton, and a
number of other composers. Indeed, if you wanted to you could easily put
together a two-hour program of nothing but settings of this Blake poem.
Gottfried von Einem: Der Sonnentiger, from Vier Tierlieder (op 96, #2)
Maurice Delage: Themmangu (Chant et danse du tigre), from Trois Chants de
la Jungle
Songs Featuring Other Cats:
Robert Schumann: Die Loewenbraut (op 31, #1)
Charles Ives: The Cage
Jean Absil: Chanson du chat, from Trois Poemes de Tristan Klingsor (#1)
Johann Karl Gottfried Loewe: Die Katzenkoenigin (op 64, #3)
Samuel Barber: The Monk and His Cat, from Hermit Songs (op 29, #8)
Michael Head: The Matron Cat's Song
Henri Sauguet: Chat, from Les Animaux et Leurs Hommes
Le Chat I and Le Chat II
Peter Warlock: O My Kitten, from Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles
(#4)
Alphons Diepenbrock: Les Chats
Jean Francaix: Belaud, Mon Petit Chat Gris, from Trois Epigrammes
Louis Durey: Le Lion, from Le Bestiaire
Songs Featuring Other Mammals:
Louis Durey: L'Elephant, from Le Bestiaire
Peter Warlock: One More River
Henri Sauguet: Cheval, Vache, Chien, and Porc, from Les Animaux et Leurs
Hommes
Johann Karl Gottfried Loewe: Die Mohrenfuerstin (op 97, #2)
Schwalbenmaerchen (op 68, #1)
Charles Ives: Slow March
Leo Delibes: Les animaux de Grandville
Arthur Farwell: Papa above (op 108, #9)
William Walton: Madame Mouse Trots, from Facade
Jumbo's Lullaby, from Facade
Andre Caplet: Le Loup et l'Agneau and Le corbeau et le renard, from Trois
Fables de Jean de La Fontaine
Jacques Offenbach: Le Rat de Ville et le Rat de Champs and Le Courbeau
et le Renard, from Six Fables de La Fontaine (of course, like Aesop's
fables, La Fontaine's fables aren't really about animals at all); there
are several other cycles/settings of La Fontaine animal fables.
Hugo Wolf: Mausfallenspruechlein
Michael Head: Lone Dog
Arthur Bliss: The Hare
Kenneth Benshoof: The Cow (also set by Harris Lindenfield in his Three
Poems by Theodore Roethke)
Benjamin Britten: Wagtail and Baby, from Winter Words (op 52, #3)
My Hoggie, from A Birthday Hansel (op 92, #4 - the
cycle was composed for soprano, but I think you
do this song out of context)
Francis Poulenc: Quelle aventure! (La Puce et l'Elephant) and Le Carafon
from La Courte Paille (FP178, #2)
Le Dromadaire and La Chevre du Thibet, from La Bestiaire
(FP15a)
Manuel Rosenthal: L'elephant du Jardin des Plantes, from Chansons du
Monsieur BLeu
KM
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