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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 www.radix.net/~dalila – 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
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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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