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Vocal Music: A Guide to Research and Resources: Librettos & Song Texts

Locate online and print resources, including key databases, catalogs, and websites about Vocal Music.

Specific Composers

Handel Opera Libretti, Vol. 1 & Vol.2 by George Frideric Handel; Nico Castel; Hemdi Kfir
Call Number: ML49 .H236 2005 vol.1-vol.2
The Complete Puccini Libretti by Nico Castel (Translator); Eugene Green (Illustrator); Sherrill Milnes (Preface by)
Call Number: ML49.P75 C37 1993 v.1-v.2
Gluck & Monteverdi opera libretti : international phonetic alphabet transcriptions, word for word translations, notes on the French and Italian transcriptions by by Nico Castel ; assisted and edited by Marcie Stapp
Call Number: ML48 .G57 2008
The Libretti of Mozart's Completed Operas, Vol. 1 by Nico Castel (Contribution by)
Call Number: ML49.M83 C315 1997 v.1-v.2
The singer's Debussy by edited, with introductions and translations, by Marie-Claire Rohinsky.
Call Number: ML54.6.D42 R62 1987

Collections

Libretti of Russian Operas by Anton Belov; Ann Brash; Valeria Konstantinovskaya; Nico Castel; Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka; Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky; Peter Illich Tchaikovsky; Sergei Rachmaninoff; Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
Call Number: ML48 .L484 2004
French Opera Libretti by Nico Castel; Eugene Green (Illustrator)
Call Number: ML48 .F875 1999 v.1-v.2
German Miscellaneous Opera Libretti by Nico Castel; Marcie Stapp; Otto Nicolai; Engelbert Humperdinck
Call Number: ML48 .G4 2005
Italian Belcanto Opera Libretti, Vol. 1 by Nico Castel; Scott Jackson Wiley; Marcie Stapp
Call Number: ML48 .I83 2000 v.1-v.3
Word-by-word translations of songs and arias by by Berton Coffin, Werner Singer [and] Pierre Delattre
Call Number: ML54.6 .W65 v.1-v.2
The Ring of Words by Philip L. Miller (Introduction by)
Call Number: ML54.6.M5 R5 1973
An anthology unlike any other, The Ring of Words assembles lyrics of the most famous art songs of Europe with literal line-by-line English translations printed on the facing pages.
The Fischer-Dieskau Book of Lieder by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; George Bird (Translator); Richard Stokes (Translator)
Call Number: ML54.6 F513 1977

Finding Librettos

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