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Selected Resources for Singers The First Place to Look for Information...The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (Sadie, Stanley, ed.). ML 102 .O6 N5 1992 – located on tables in the Reading Room Biographical Information about Composers and Performers...A Concise Biographical Dictionary of Singers.Reference: ML 400 .K97 U6 E5 1969 International Who's Who in Music and Musicians' Directory. Reference: ML 105 .I54 1998/99 Women in Music. Reference: ML 105 .H6 1993 (2 vols.) Baker's Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Classical Musicians. Reference: ML 105 .S612 1997 Repertoire Guides...Coffin, Berton: Singer's Repertoire. Reference: ML 128 .V7 C67 S6 1960 (5 vols.) Espina, Noni: Repertoire for the Solo Voice. Reference: ML 128 .S3 E8 (2 vols.) Kagen, Sergius: Music for the Voice. Reference: ML 128 .V7 K11 M9 1968 Kimball, Carol: Song: A Guide to Style and Literature. Reference: MT 120 .K56 2000 Manning, Jane: New Vocal Repertory. Reference: ML 128 .V7 M3 1994 (2 vols.) Audio/Sound and Video Resources...Marston, Nimbus, and Club 99 labels have recordings of historic performances CDs and videos (both DVDs and Laser Discs) of complete operas as well as recitals Naxos Music Library (digital listening service) Don't forget to check our Classical and Popular LP databases! Websites...Lied and Art Song Texts Page at www.recmusic.org/lieder – many texts and translations Karen Mercedes' Page at http://artfuljesus.0catch.com/Repertoire/rep.html – repertoire suggestions, etc. Diction and Translation: French...Singer's Debussy: IPA, poetic translations. ML 54.6 .D42 R62 1987 Poetic Debussy. Poetic translations. ML 54.6 .D42 C62 1994 French Song Companion. represents several composers with information about songs and literal translations. ML 54.6 .J76 F74 2000 The Interpretation of French Song. Famous work by Bernac, contemporary of Poulenc, etc. MT 892 B51 I6 Interpreting the Songs of Maurice Ravel. Includes IPA, word-for-word translations, and interpretive ideas. MT 121 .R38* (awaiting reclass) Masters of the French Art Song. Translations, complete texts used by several composers. Word-for-word and poetic translations. ML 54.6 .M33 1991 Interpreting the Songs of Gabriel Fauré. Includes IPA, word-for-word translations, and interpretive ideas. ML 410 .F27 G37 1996* (awaiting reclass) Diction and Translation: German...Fischer-Dieskau Book of Lieder: Translations. ML 54.6 .F5 1977 Lieder Line by Line: Word-for-word and poetic translations. ML 54.6 .P55 L5 1996 Penguin Book of Lieder: Poetic translations. ML 54.6 .P91 P3 Schubert Complete Song Texts: Poetic translations. ML 54.6 .S38 W5 1988 Phonetic Readings of Schubert Lieder:IPA readings. MT 883 .M25 1994 Diction and Translation: Italian, Russian, Spanish, Various Languages...Masters of the Italian Art Song: Word-for-word and poetic translations. ML 54.6 .M34 1990 Mussorgsky's Complete Song Texts: ML 54.6 .M9 R6 Russian Songs and Arias (Piatak/Avrashov): IPA and word-for-word translations. MT 883 .P52 1991 Singer's Rachmaninoff: Word-for-word and poetic translations and IPA. ML 54.6 .R18 S52 1989 Singer's Anthology of 20th Century Spanish Songs: Word-for-word and poetic translations and IPA. ML 54.6 .S56 1987 Singing Early Music. Pronunciation guides for early languages. MT 883 .S56 1996 The Ring of Words: An Anthology of Song Texts: Poetic translations in German, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and several Scandinavian languages. ML 54.6 .M64 Word by Word Translations: Songs and arias – Italian, German, and French. ML 54.6 .W92 Diction: Multiple Languages...Phonetic Readings of Songs and Arias. IPA for texts in Italian, German, and French. MT 883 .C67 P5 The Singer's Manual of German and French Diction (Cox). MT 883 .C69 A Handbook of Diction for Singers: Italian, German, French (Adams). MT 883 .A32 1999 A Singer's Manual of Spanish Lyric Diction (Castel). MT 883 .C27 1994 Singers' Italian (Colorini). MT 883 .C71 S6 German for Singers (Odom/Schollum). Contains Companion CD. MT 883 .O35 1997 The Singer's Manual of English Diction (Marshall). MT 883 .M36 1953 General Opera Resources...Annals of Opera (Loewenberg, 1955) Reference: ML 102 .O6 L91 1955 v.1-2 Crowell's Handbook of World Opera (Moore, 1961) Reference: ML 102 .O6 M82 C9 Dictionary of Opera and Song Themes (Morgenstern, 1950) Reference: ML 128 .V7 B25 D5 1950a The Oxford Dictionary of Opera (Warrack/West, 1992) Reference: ML 102 .O6 W37 1992 An Interpretive Guide to Operatic Arias (Singher, 1983) MT 892 .S5 1983 Other Print Resources of Interest...Wedding Music: an index to collections (Goodfellow, 1992) Reference: ML 128 .W4 G6 1992 Catalogue of Vocal Solos and Duets Arranged in Biblical Order (Laster) Reference: ML 128 .S3 L38 1984 Catalogue of choral music arranged in Biblical order (Laster, 1996) Reference: ML 128 .C54 L4 1996 The Great Song Thesaurus (Lax/Smith, 1989) Reference: ML 128 .S3 L4 1989 Index to Children's Songs (Peterson and Fenton, 1979) Reference: ML 128 .S3 P48 To Find Scores for Arias or Songs in Collections, Do a Keyword Search or Use an Index...Songs in Collections (DeCharms, 1966) Reference: ML 128 .S3 D29 S6 The Song Index of the Enoch Pratt Free Library (Luchinsky, 1998) Reference: ML 128 .S3 L82 1998 Song Index (Sears, 1966) Reference: ML 128 .S3 S43 S6 1966 Art Song in the United States, 1759-1999. (Carman, etc., 2001)Reference: ML 128 .S3 C37 2001 Selected Vocal Pedagogy Resources (How the Voice Works)...Blades-Zeller: A Spectrum of Voices: Prominent American Voice Teachers Discuss the Teaching of Singing MT 820 .B63 2002 Doscher: The Functional Unity of the Singing Voice QP 306 .D67 1994 McCoy: Your Voice: An Inside View. Contains Companion DVD. Desk Reference: MT 821 .M34 2004 McKinney: The Diagnosis and Correction of Vocal Faults MT 821 .M34 D5 2004 Miller: The Structure of Singing MT 825 .M646 1986 Miller: Care of the Professional Voice MT 821 .D38 C3 2005 Miller: On the Art of Singing MT 820 .M599 1996 Miller: Solutions for Singers MT 820 .M5993 2004 Miller: Training Soprano Voices MT 820 .M5995 2000 Miller: Training Tenor Voices MT 820 .M6 1993 Sataloff: Vocal Health and Pedagogy RF 510 .S283 2006 v.1 Periodicals...Print periodicals, current and retrospective, as well as electronic periodical databases, are available. Titles of interest to singers include Opera News, Journal of Singing, Opera Quarterly, etc. Databases include International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP), International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA), JSTOR, etc. Other Resources...Libretti for most major operas (with translations) and some music theatre shows, found in stacks in ML48, ML49, and ML50. Includes Nico Castel opera libretti which have IPA and word-for-word as well as poetic translations. Translations found in CD and LP liner notes. Books about performance (MT 892), history (ML 2500-ML 2830), and technique (MT 833) Our Vocal Sheet Music collection is now in a searchable database. Please ask about it!
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