Research Guides: Music Research Guide: Sources for Song and Lieder Translations

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IPA Source: IPA Transcriptions and Literal Translations of Songs and Arias
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French:

Word-by-Word Translations of Songs and Arias
Call Number: ML54.6 .C7 W7 - MLR Reference, 1st floor

Part I: German and French.
Part II: Italian.
Masters of the French Art Song: Translations of the complete songs of Chausson, Debussy, Duparc, Faure & Ravel
Call Number: ML54.6 .M33 1991 - MLR Reference, 1st floor
The Poetic Debussy: A collection of his song texts and selected letters
Call Number: ML54.6 .D42 C62 1982 - Music Listening Room, 1st floor
The singer's Debussy
Call Number: ML54.6.D42 R62 1987 - Music Listening Room, 1st floor

Italian:

Masters of the Italian Art Song: Word-by-word and poetic translations of the complete songs for voice and piano
Call Number: ML54.6 .M34 1990 - Reference, 2nd floor

German:

English texts of thirty Beethoven solo songs
Call Number: ML54.6.B4D7 - Music Listening Room, 1st floor
[Johannes Brahms] Texts of the vocal works, in English translation
Call Number: ML54.6.B8D7 - Reference, 2nd floor
Schubert's Complete Song Texts
Call Number: ML54.6.S39 G5 V.1 & V.2 - MLR Reference, 1st floor
Phonetic Readings of Schubert Lieder
Call Number: MT883 .M25 1994 - Reference, 2nd floor
Lieder, Line by Line and Word for Word
Call Number: ML54.6.P55L5 1980 - Reference, 2nd floor

Spanish:

The Singer's anthology of 20th century Spanish songs
Call Number: ML54.6.A9 S56 1987 - Music Listening Room, 1st floor

Russian:

The Ring of Words: An anthology of song texts
Call Number: ML54.6 .M5 R5 1973 - Music Listening Room, 1st floor