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Singers' and Choral Directors' Bible: Translations & Song Texts

Resources for the classical singer, including how to find repertoire, translations, pronunciations, and pedagogical works. Choral music resources also are included.

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Translations

Bringing Soprano Arias to Life by Boris Goldovsky; Arthur Schoep
Call Number: MT892 .G64
ISBN: 0911320644
Publication Date: 1973-01-01
An Interpretive Guide to Operatic Arias: A Handbook for Singers, Coaches, Teachers, and Students by Martial Singher
Call Number: MT892 .S5 1983
ISBN: 0271003510
Publication Date: 1983
The Ring of Words: An Anthology of Song Texts by Philip L. Miller
Call Number: Music Reference ML54.6 .R5 1973
ISBN: 0393006778
Publication Date: 1973-01-17
Word-by-Word Translations of Songs and Arias by Berton Coffin; Werner Singer; Pierre Delattre; Arthur Schoep; Daniel Harris
Call Number: Music Reference ML54.6 .W67 v. 1-2
ISBN: 0810801493
Publication Date: 1994-03-01
Part 2: Italian

Lied and Song Texts Page
The Lied and Art Song Texts Page is an archive of 24,241 texts used in Lieder and other classical Art Songs (Kunstlieder, Mélodies, Canzoni, Romansy, Canciones, Liederen, Canções, Sånger, Laulua, etc.) as well as in many choral

French Opera Libretti by Nico Castel; Eugene Green (Illustrator)
Call Number: Music Reference ML48 .F875 1999 v. 1-3
ISBN: 1878617273
Publication Date: 1999-04-01
A French Song Companion by Graham Johnson; Richard Stokes
Call Number: Music Reference ML54.6.J76 F74 2000
ISBN: 0198164106
Publication Date: 2000-09-07
The Interpretation of French Song by Pierre Bernac
Call Number: MT892 .B4 1978
ISBN: 0393008789
Publication Date: 1978-02-17
Interpreting the Songs of Gabriel Fauré by Robert Gartside
Call Number: Music Reference ML54.6 G272 1996
ISBN: 1878617184
Publication Date: 1996-07-01
Interpreting the Songs of Jacques Leguerney: A Guide for Study and Performance by Mary Dibbern; Carol Kimball; Patrick Choukroun
Call Number: Music Reference ML54.6.L44 D53 2001
Publication Date: 2001
Interpreting the Songs of Maurice Ravel by Robert Gartside
Call Number: Music Reference ML54.6 .G2726 1992
ISBN: 1878617036
Publication Date: 1992-06-01
Masters of the French Art Song: Translations of the Complete Songs of Chausson, Debussy, Duparc, Fauré & Ravel by Timothy LeVan
Call Number: ML54.6 .M33 1991
ISBN: 0810825228
Publication Date: 1991-12-01
Nineteenth-Century French Song: Fauré, Chausson, Duparc, and Debussy by Barbara Meister
Call Number: ML2827 .M36 1980
ISBN: 0253340756
Publication Date: 1980-07-01
The Ring of Words: An Anthology of Song Texts by Philip L. Miller
Call Number: Music Reference ML54.6 .R5 1973
ISBN: 0393006778
Publication Date: 1973-01-17
The Singer's Debussy by Claude Debussy; Marie-Claire Rohinsky
Call Number: Music Reference ML54.6.D42 R62 1987
Publication Date: 1987
Translations of 106 French Poems Set to Music by French Composers by Dietrich Erbelding; Martial Singher
Call Number: Music Reference ML54.6 .E7 1989 [CD: DISC 5013 v. 1-2]
Publication Date: 1989
Word-by-Word Translations of Songs and Arias by Berton Coffin; Werner Singer; Pierre Delattre; Arthur Schoep; Daniel Harris
Call Number: Music Reference ML54.6 .W67 v. 1-2
ISBN: 0810801493
Publication Date: 1994-03-01
Part 2: Italian

Brahms' Complete Song Texts In One Volume by Johannes Brahms; Beaumont Glass
Call Number: Music Reference ML54.6.B82 G52 1999
ISBN: 1878617265
Publication Date: 1999-03-01
The Fischer-Dieskau Book of Lieder by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Call Number: Music Reference ML54.6 .T4913 1977
ISBN: 0394494350
Publication Date: 1977-03-01
German Lieder by Philip Lieson Miller
Call Number: Music Reference ML54.6 .G275 1990
ISBN: 0826403271
Publication Date: 1990-06-01
German Miscellaneous Opera Libretti by Nico Castel; Marcie Stapp; Otto Nicolai; Engelbert Humperdinck
Call Number: Music Reference ML48.G476 L4 2005
ISBN: 1878617435
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Hugo Wolf's Complete Song Texts In One Volume by Hugo Wolf; Beaumont Glass
Call Number: Music Reference ML54.6.W65 G52 2000
Publication Date: 2000
Lieder Line by Line and Word for Word by Lois Phillips
Call Number: Music Reference ML54.6.P55 L5 1996
ISBN: 9780198790174
Publication Date: 1996-10-24
The Penguin Book of Lieder by S S Prawer
Call Number: Music Reference ML54.6 .P464 1964
Publication Date: 1964
The Ring of Words: An Anthology of Song Texts by Philip L. Miller
Call Number: Music Reference ML54.6 .R5 1973
ISBN: 0393006778
Publication Date: 1973-01-17
Schubert, the Complete Song Texts: Texts of the Lieder and Italian Songs by Franz Schubert; Richard Wigmore
Call Number: Music Reference ML54.6.S39 W53 1988
ISBN: 9780028729114
Publication Date: 1988-09-01
Schubert's Complete Song Texts by Franz Schubert; Beaumont Glass
Call Number: Music Reference ML54.6.S39 G515 1996 v. 1-2
ISBN: 1878617192
Publication Date: 1996-06-01
The Singer's Schumann by Robert Schumann; Thilo Reinhard
Call Number: Music Reference ML54.6.S4 R413 1988
Publication Date: 1989
The Songs of Max Reger by Richard Mercier; Donald Nold
Call Number: Music Reference ML54.6.R44 M57 2008
ISBN: 9780810861206
Publication Date: 2008-04-22
Word-by-Word Translations of Songs and Arias by Berton Coffin; Werner Singer; Pierre Delattre; Arthur Schoep; Daniel Harris
Call Number: Music Reference ML54.6 .W67 v. 1-2
ISBN: 0810801493
Publication Date: 1994-03-01
Part 2: Italian

Arie Antiche by Dorothy Richardson; Tina Ruta; Alessandro Parisotti
Call Number: Music Reference ML54.6 .A75 1990
ISBN: 9781557250179
Publication Date: 1990-09-01
Italian Art Song Series by Tullio Pintor; Dietrich Erbelding
Call Number: Music Reference ML54.6.I835 P6 1999 [CD: DISC 5014 v. 1-3]
Publication Date: 1999
Italian Belcanto Opera Libretti by Nico Castel; Scott Jackson Wiley; Marcie Stapp
Call Number: Music Reference ML48.I835 L4 2000 v. 1-3
ISBN: 1878617338
Publication Date: 2000-01-01
Italian Song Texts from the 17th Through the 20th Centuries by Martha Gerhart
Call Number: Music Reference ML54.6 .I83 2002 v. 1-2
ISBN: 1878617478
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Masters of the Italian Art Song: Word-by-Word and Poetic Translations of the Complete Songs for Voice and Piano by Timothy LeVan
Call Number: Music Reference ML54.6 .M34 1990
ISBN: 9780810823631
Publication Date: 1990
Word-by-Word Translations of Songs and Arias by Berton Coffin; Werner Singer; Pierre Delattre; Arthur Schoep; Daniel Harris
Call Number: Music Reference ML54.6 .W67 v. 1-2
ISBN: 0810801493
Publication Date: 1994-03-01
Part 2: Italian

Forty-Five Songs of Edvard Grieg by Edvard Grieg; Bradley Ellingboe
Call Number: Music Reference ML54.6.G84 E5 1988
ISBN: 9780960229680
Publication Date: 1988-01-01

English Texts for the Songs of Modeste Moussorgsky (1835-1881) by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky; Henry S Drinker
Call Number: Music Reference ML54.6.M9 D7 1950
Publication Date: 1950
Russian Songs and Arias: Phonetic Readings, Word-by-Word Translations, and a Concise Guide to Russian Diction by Jean Piatak; Regina Avrashov
Call Number: Music Reference ML54.6.P56 R8 1991
ISBN: 9781877761522
Publication Date: 1991-09-01
The Singer's Rachmaninoff by Sergei Rachmaninoff; Natalia Challis
Call Number: Music Reference ML54.6.R18 S52 1989
ISBN: 9780823906727
Publication Date: 1987-07-15
Tchaikovsky's Complete Song Texts by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky; Laurence R Richter
Call Number: Music Reference ML54.6.T35 T3 1999
ISBN: 9781878617293
Publication Date: 1999-08-01
Tchaikovsky's Complete Songs: A Companion with Texts and Translations by Peter Illich Tchaikovsky; Richard D. Sylvester
Call Number: ML54.6.T24 S9 2001 [CD: DISC 3383]
ISBN: 9780253340412
Publication Date: 2002-04-01

The Singer's Anthology of 20th Century Spanish Songs by Josep Miquel Sobrer; Edmon Colomer
Call Number: Music Reference ML54.6 .S57 1987
Publication Date: 1987
A Singer's Guide to the Songs of Joaquín Rodrigo by Suzanne Rhodes Draayer; Joaquín Rodrigo
Call Number: Music Reference ML54.6.R632 D73 1999
ISBN: 9780810836761
Publication Date: 1999-09-01
The Spanish Song Companion by acqueline Cockburn; Richard Stokes; Graham Johnson
Call Number: Music Reference ML54.6 .S76 1992
ISBN: 9780575046740
Publication Date: 1992

Lyrics of the Afro-American Spiritual by Erskine Peters (Editor)
Call Number: ML54.6 .L96 1993
ISBN: 0313262381
Publication Date: 1993-04-20

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