Learn English – How to call songs where the author has set music on his own / other authors’ poetry

I am not a native English speaker and I compile a list of songs of a certain singer-songwriter.

I try to choose proper words for headings of two major list’s sections:

Songs that are written entirely by this author, both lyrics and music.
Songs where the author has set music on other authors’ poetry.

I need help to put these draft wordings in order, making them short, clear and correct both stylistically and grammatically. One of my attempts was like this: Songs on his own lyrics / Songs on other authors’ lyrics, but it seems quite awkward to me.

For example, I don’t know which word is right: other authors’, other writers’, other people’ or something else? Likewise, I get confused between lyrics, poems, poetry, words, works and similar words.

Best Answer

On a song-by-song basis, this format is often used¹:

Lyrics by Dean Eikmann, Music by Dorothy Page

or, if one person composed both:

Music & Lyrics by Theresa Jones

So, if your singer/songwriter is Dave Brown, you could use:

Music & Lyrics by Dave Brown

as the first heading, and

Music by Dave Brown

as the other. You could also add a third heading:

Performed by Dave Brown

in the case where he may have performed songs that were written and composed by others.

¹Examples of this format can be found here and here. Moreover, this page list several songs in both formats, along with songs that were performed by another artist, such as: "The Way We Were" Lyrics by Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman, Music by Marvin Hamlisch, performed by Barbra Streisand.