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Word-by-word Translations of Songs and Arias
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Call Number: ML54.6 .W65 v.1-v.2Volume VII in The Singer's Repertoire Series, providing translations of German and French art songs and arias -
The Ring of Words
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Call Number: ML54.6.M5 R5 1973An 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: The texts of over 750 songs in German
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Call Number: ML54.6 F513 1977Parallel German text and English translation of standard repertoire German Lieder. -
Lieder Line by Line, and Word for Word
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Call Number: Reference (SV) ML 54.6.P55 L5 1996Includes English translations of the most common German songs (lieder) by Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Wagner, Brahms, Wolf, Mahler, and Strauss in both word-for-word and clear prose versions. -
Masters of the French Art Song: Translations of the Complete Songs of Chausson, Debussy, Duparc, Fauré & Ravel
Call Number: Reference (SV) ML 54.6 .M33 2001Presents the French texts and precise word-for-word and poetic English translations of the texts used by the five most important French art song composers. -
Libretti of Russian Operas
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Call Number: Reference (SV) ML48 .L484 2004Includes text, translations, and IPA for works by Mussorgsky, Glinka, Tchaikovsky, et al. -
French Opera Libretti
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Call Number: Reference (SV) ML48 .F875 1999 v.1-v.2Includes text, translations, and IPA for works by Debussy, Bizet, Gounod, et al. Another essential Nico Castel volume. -
Italian Belcanto Opera Libretti, Vol. 1
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Call Number: Reference (SV) ML48 .I83 2000 v.1-v.3Includes text, translations, and IPA for works by Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti. Another essential Nico Castel volume. -
German Miscellaneous Opera Libretti
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Call Number: Reference (SV) ML48 .G4 2005Includes text, translations, and IPA for works by Wagner, von Weber, Beethoven, et al. Another essential Nico Castel volume.
Sacred Music
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Sacred Latin Texts and English Translations for the Choral Conductor and Church Musician: Propers of the Mass
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Call Number: Reference (SV) ML54.8 .S23 1998Provides English translations of the Latin Mass texts of the Proper (in alphabetical order) most frequently found in Gregorian chant and polyphonic motets. -
Handbook to Bach's Sacred Cantata Texts: An Interlinear Translation with Reference Guide to Biblical Quotations and Allusions
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Call Number: Reference (SV) ML 54.B15 U52 1996Provides the original German texts and word-for-word English translations for all of J. S. Bach's church cantatas.
Specific Composers
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The Singer's Debussy
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Call Number: ML54.6.D42 R62 1987An annotated collection of French texts to the mélodies, with phonetic transcriptions and both word-for-word and literary English translations. -
Schubert: The Complete Song TextsCall Number: Reference (SV) ML 54.8 .S23 1988Texts of Schubert's Lieder and Italian songs, with English translations. Attempts "to provide clear, straightforward translations that remain close to the originals with descending into stilted translation-ese."
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Handel Opera Libretti, Vol. 1 & Vol.2
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Call Number: Reference (SV) ML49 .H236 2005 vol.1-vol.2Includes text, translations, and IPA for popular Handel Italian operas -
The Complete Puccini Libretti
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Call Number: Reference (SV) ML49.P75 C37 1993 v.1-v.2Includes text, translations, and IPA for popular Puccini's operas -
Gluck & Monteverdi Opera Libretti
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Call Number: Reference (SV) ML48 .G57 2008Includes text, translations, and IPA for commonly-performed Gluck and Monteverdi operas -
The Libretti of Mozart's Completed Operas, Vol. 1
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Call Number: Reference (SV) ML49.M83 C315 1997 v.1-v.2International Phonetic Alphabet transcriptions, word for word translations, including a guide to the I.P.A. and notes on the Italian and German transcriptions
