Guides: MUS Voice Seminar: Text Translation Sources

Specialized Resources

The resources listed on this page have been selected to help voice students with text translations for studio and recital work.

Text Translation Sources in Preus Library

Brahms' Complete Song Texts
Translations of Brahms song texts.
Reference ML54.6 .B82G52 1999
Complete Church and Secular Cantatas
Translation of Bach cantata texts.
Reference ML54 .B15C328 2000
Complete Puccini libretti
Ref ML49.P83 N53 1993 2 vols.
Complete Verdi Libretti
Translation of Verdi texts in four volumes.
Reference ML49.V45 C372 1994
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v. 1. Aïda ; Alzira ; Aroldo ; Attila ; Un ballo in maschera ; La battaglia di Legnano ; Il corsaro -- v. 2. Don Carlo ; I due Foscari ; Ernani ; Falstaff ; La forza del destino ; Un giorno di regno ; Giovanna d'Arco -- v. 3. I lombardi ; Luisa Miller ; Macbeth ; I masnadieri ; Nabucco ; Oberto ; Otello -- v. 4. Rigoletto ; Simon Boccanegra ; Stiffelio ; La traviata ; Il trovatore ; I vespri siciliani.
Forty-five songs of Edvard Grieg
Translation of Grieg songs.
Reference ML54.7 .G8E5 1988
French Opera Libretti
Translations of opera texts.
Reference ML48 .F74 1999
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v. 1. Werther ; Carmen ; Samson et Dalila ; Lakḿe ; Pelléas et Mélisande ; Chérubin ; Don Carlos ; Les contes d'Hoffmann -- v. 2. Faust ; Roméo et Juliette ; La juive ; Mignon ; Hamlet ; Thaïs ; Les pêcheurs de perles ; Manon -- v. 3. Le prophète ; Cendrillon ; Louise ; Don Quichotte ; Les Huguenots ; Les Troyens.
French Song Companion
Translations of French songs.
Reference ML54.6 .J76F74
Handbook to Bach's Sacred Cantata Texts: An Interlinear Translation with Reference Guide to Biblical Quotations and Allusions
Translations of Bach cantata texts.
Reference ML54 .B15C329 1996
Handel Opera Libretti
Translation of Handel texts in two volumes.
Reference ML49.H13 O62 2005
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v. 1. Rodelinda ; Alcina ; Agrippina ; Giulio Cesare ; Rinaldo ; Ottone -- v. 2. Ariodante ; Serse ; Orlando ; Partenope ; Tamerlano ; Radamisto ; Lotario.
Hugo Wolf's Complete Song Texts
Translation of Wolf songs.
Reference ML54.6 .W6G52 2000
Interpreting the songs of Gabriel Fauré
Translation of Fauré texts.
Reference ML54.7 .F3G37 1996
Interpreting the songs of Maurice Ravel
Tranlation of Ravel songs.
Reference ML54.7 .R38G37 1992
Italian Belcanto Opera Libretti
Translation of Italian and French opera texts.
Reference ML48 .I83 2000
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v. 1. Il barbiere di Siviglia / Rossini. Il Turco in Italia / Rossini. Lucia di Lammermoor / Donizetti. L'elisir d'amore / Donizetti. Lucrezia Borgia / Donizetti. Norma / Bellini. I Capuleti e i Montecchi / Bellini -- v. 2. La Cenerentola / Rossini. L'Italiana in Algeri / Rossini. La sonnambula / Bellini. Anna Bolena / Donezetti. Maria Stuarda / Donizetti. Roberto Devereux / Donizetti. Don Pasquale / Donizetti. I puritani / Bellini -- v. 3. Guillaume Tell / Rossini. Le comte Ory / Rossini. Otello / Rossini. Semiramide / Rossini. Il viaggio a Reims / Rossini. La fille du régiment / Donizetti. La favorite / Donizetti. Beatrice di Tenda / Bellini.
Italian Song Texts from the 17th through the 20th Centuries
Translations for song texts.
Reference ML54.6 .I83 2002
Libretti of Mozart's completed operas
Ref ML49.M83 C315 1997 2 vols.
Libretti of Russian Operas
Translation of Pushkin texts used by Glinka, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Rimsky-Korsakov.
Reference ML48 .L35 2004
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Russlan and Ludmila / Nikolai Glinka -- Boris Godunov / Modest Mussorgsky -- Eugene Onegin ; The queen of spades / Piotr Tchaikovsky -- Aleko / Sergey Rachmaninoff -- The golden cockerel / Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
Lieder Line by Line, and Word for Word
Translation of German lieder.
Reference ML54.6 .P55L5 1996
Lyrics of the Afro-American Spiritual: A Documentary Collection
Spiritual texts.
Reference ML54.6 .L96 1993
Ring of Words, An Anthology of Song Texts
English translations of songs in German, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Norwegian, and Swedish.
Reference ML54.6 .M5R5 1973
Schubert's Complete Song Texts
Translation of Schubert songs.
Reference ML54.6 .S39G5
Schumann's Complete Song Texts
Translation of Schumann songs.
Reference ML54.6 .S4G52 2002
Singer's Rachmaninoff
Text translations, including IPA, of Rachmaninoff songs.
Reference ML 54.6 .R18 S52 1989
Singing in Czech: A Guide to Czech Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire
Resource for Czech texts.
Reference MT883 .C44
Spanish Song Companion
Translations of Spanish texts.
Reference ML54.6 .S76 1992
Tchaikovsky's Complete Songs: A Companion with Texts and Translations
Translations of Tchaikovsky texts.
Reference ML54.6 .T4S9 2002
Word-by-Word Translations of Songs and Arias
Translations of German, French, and Italian song texts.
Reference ML54.6 .W65

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