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Anthologies

 

Dix cycles de lieder = Ten cycles of lieder : Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler, Schubert, Schumann / traduction mot a mot accent tonique par Marie-Therese Paquin. Montreal : Les Presses de l'Universite de Montreal, 1977.  ML54.6 D59 Reference

The Fischer-Dieskau book of lieder : the texts of over 750 songs in German/ chosen and edited by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau ; with English translations by George Bird and Richard Stokes. London : V. Gollancz,  1976.  ML54.6 F57F5 Reference

Lieder line by line, and word for word / Lois Phillips. Rev. ed. Oxford :Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996. ML54.6P44 L51996 Reference

Poetry in song literature : a handbook for students of singing / by Donna Esselstyn Harrison. Evanston, Ill. : Wm. Caxton, c1989. ML3849 H27 P6 Reference

The Ring of Words: an anthology of song texts. The original texts selected and translated, with an introd. by Philip L. Miller. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday :c1963:  ML54.6 M44R4 Reference

The solo song, 1580-1730. Edited by Carol MacClintock. M1619M17 S6

Translations and annotations of choral repertoire. vol. 1, Sacred Latin texts / compiled and annotated by Ron Jeffers. ML53.8 J44T7v.1 Reference

Translations and annotations of choral repertoire. vol. 2, German texts / translations compiled by Ron Jeffers ; edited and annotated by Gordon Paine. ML53.8 J44T7v.2 Reference

Word by Word Translations of Songs and Arias / by Berton Coffin, Werner Singer [and] Pierre Delattre. ML54.6 W67 Reference

Opera Libretti

 

The complete Puccini libretti / with international phonetic alphabet transcriptions, word for word translations by Nico Castel. ML49 P82C2 Reference

The complete Verdi libretti / with International Phonetic Alphabet transcriptions, word for word translations by Nico Castel. ML49 V47C2 Reference

French opera libretti / with International Phonetic Alphabet transcriptions, word for word translations, including a guide to the I.P.A. and notes on the French transcriptions by Nico Castel ML48 F746 Reference

German miscellaneous opera libretti : with international phonetic alphabet transcriptions, word for word translations by Nico Castel. ML48 G468 Reference

Italian belcanto opera libretti / with International Phonetic Alphabet transcriptions and word for word translations by Nico Castel. ML48 I835 Reference

Italian verismo opera libretti : in two volumes / with International Phonetic Alphabet transcriptions and word for word translations by Nico Castel. ML48 I838 Reference

The libretti of Mozart’s completed operas : in two volumes / with International Phonetic Alphabet transcriptions, word for word translations by Nico Castel. ML49 M69C3 Reference

Individual composers

 

Bach

Handbook to Bach’s sacred cantata texts : an interlinear translation with reference guide to Biblical quotations and allusions / by Melvin Unger. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, c1996. ML54 B15C3 Reference

Brahms 

A guide to the solo songs of Johannes Brahms / Lucien Stark. Bloomington [Ind.] : Indiana University Press, c1995. MT115.B74 S72 Reference

Phonetic readings of Brahms Lieder / by Candace A. Magner.  Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1987.  MT883 M23 P3 Reference

The songs of Johannes Brahms / Eric Sams. New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2000. MT121.B72 S25

Debussy 

The poetic Debussy : a collection of his song texts and selected letters /collected and annotated by Margaret G. Cobb ; translations by Richard Miller. Rev. 2nd ed. Rochester, N.Y. : University of Rochester Press, 1994. ML54.6 D42C61994

The singer's Debussy / edited, with introductions and translations, by Marie-Claire Rohinsky. 1st ed. New York : Pelion Press, 1987. ML54.6D42S5 Reference

Faure

Interpreting the songs of Gabriel Fauré / by Robert Gartside. Geneseo, N.Y. : Leyerle Publicatons, c1996. ML410.F28 G27

Mussorgsky

English texts for the songs of Modeste Moussorgsky (1835-1881) by Henry S. Drinker. Merion, Pa., 1950?  784.3 M97S

Rachmaninoff 

The singer's Rachmaninoff / edited, with introductions and translations by Natalia Challis. 1st ed. New York : Pelion Press, 1989. ML54.6R18S5 Reference

Ravel

Interpreting the songs of Maurice Ravel / Robert Gartside. Geneseo, N.Y. : Leverle, c1992. ML410.R23 G27

Schubert

The complete song texts : texts of the lieder and Italian songs /  Schubert; with English translations by Richard Wigmore ; foreword by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. 1st American ed. New York : Schirmer Books,  1988.  ML54.6S39W53 Reference

Phonetic readings of Schubert Lieder / by Candace A. Magner.  Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1994. MT883 M23 P4 Reference

Schubert in English : the songs usually included in Volume 1 of standard editions, translated into singable English verse / by Leslie Minchin. London :Thames, 1982.  PR1187 S37 S613 

The Schubert song companion / John Reed. Manchester : Manchester University Press, c1985. 780.923 SCH7REE

Texts of the solo songs of Franz Schubert in English translation / Henry Drinker. ML54.6.S37 D74 2 vols Reference

Schumann

The singer's Schumann / edited, with introductions and translations by Thilo Reinhard. 1st ed. New York, NY : Pelion Press, 1989. ML54.6S38S5  Reference

Schumann in English : four famous song-cycles in singable English verse /by Leslie Minchin. London : Thames, 1982?:  PR1187 S38 S613  

Language of origin

 

French 

A French song companion. Johnson, Graham, and Richard Stokes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. ML54.6 J64 F7 

The interpretation of French song by Pierre Bernac. New York : Norton, 1978, c1976 MT892 B47I51978 Reference

Masters of the French art song : translations of the complete songs of Chausson, Debussy, Duparc, Faure & Ravel / by Timothy LeVan.  Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, c1991.  ML54.6 M26  Reference

Italian 

Masters of the Italian art song : word-word and poetic translations of the complete songs for voice and piano / by Timothy LeVan. Metuchen, N.J. :Scarecrow Press, 1990.  ML54.6M27 Reference 

Spanish

The Spanish song companion / devised and translated by Jacqueline Cockburn & Richard Stokes, with an introduction and notes by Graham  Johnson. London :Victor Gollancz, 1992. ML54.6S68 Reference

The Singer's anthology of 20th century Spanish songs / edited, with introductions and translations by Josep Miquel Sobrer and Edmon Colomer.  1st ed. New York : Pelion Press, 1987.  ML54.6S56  Reference

 

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