There are many aids to understanding, interpreting and pronouncing the foreign texts of vocal music. Some examples:
Lieder
- Lieder line by line: and word for word. Beethoven -- Schubert -- Schumann -- Wagner -- Brahms -- Wolf -- Mahler -- Strauss.
TR 784.8 PHI. Kept at the Circulation Desk.
- The Ring of words : an anthology of song texts. Original texts selected and translated. Over 300 art songs of Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Russia, Norway, and Sweden, with line-by-line English translations.
TR 784.3 RING Kept at the Circulation Desk.
- Word-by-word translations of songs and arias. A companion to the singer's repertoire. Pt. 1. German and French. Pt. 2. Italian.
TR 782.42 WORD
- Italian song texts from the 17th through the 20th centuries. With international phonetic alphabet transliteration, word-for-word literal translation, and idiomatic translation by Martha Gerhart.
TR 782.10268 ITAL
- The Fischer-Dieskau book of lieder. The original texts of over seven hundred and fifty songs / chosen and introduced by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau ; with English translations by George Bird and Richard Stokes.
TR 782.42168 FISC
- The book of Lieder.The original texts of over 1000 songs / chosen, translated, and introduced by Richard Stokes .
T 782.42168 BOOK
- The Penguin book of Lieder. Without the music. German and English words.
T 784.8 PRA
- Masters of the French art song. Translations of the complete songs of Chausson, Debussy, Duparc, Fauré & Ravel.
T 784.3 LEVA
Composers
- Brahms. Brahms' complete song texts.
TR 782.10268 BRAH
- Debussy. The singer's Debussy. Includes original French texts, with pronunciations in the International Phonetic Alphabet, and English translations.
T 784.3 DEBU
- Rachmaninoff. The singer's Rachmaninoff. Includes original Russian texts, with pronunciations in the International Phonetic Alphabet, and English translations.
T 784.3 RACH
- Schubert, Franz. The complete song texts. Texts of the lieder and Italian songs with English translations by Richard Wigmore.
T 784.3 SCHUB
Nico Castel Series
- French opera libretti. International Phonetic Alphabet transcriptions, word for word translations.
TR 782.10268 FREN
- Vol. 1: Werther / Massenet -- Carmen / Bizet -- Samson et Dalila / Saint-Saëns -- Lakâme / Delibes -- Pelléas et Mélisande/ Debussy -- Chérubin / Mannenet -- Don Carlos (French version) / Verdi -- Les contes d'Hoffmann / Offenbach.
- Vol. 2: Faust / Gounod -- Roméo et Juliette / Gounod -- La juive / Halévy -- Mignon / Thomas -- Hamlet / Thomas -- Thaïs / Massenet -- Les pêcheurs de perles / Bizet -- Manon / Massenet.
- Vol. 3: Le prophète / Meyerbeer -- Cendrillon / Massenet -- Louise / Charpentier -- Don Quichotte / Massenet -- Les Huguenots / Meyerbeer -- Les Troyens / Berlioz.
- German miscellaneous opera libretti. International phonetic alphabet transcriptions, word for word translations.
TR 782.10268 GERM
- Fliegende Holländer / Wagner -- Lohengrin / Wagner -- Tannhäuser / Wagner -- Lustigen Weiber von Windsor / Nicolai -- Fidelio / Beethoven -- Freischütz / Weber -- Hänsel und Gretel / Humperdinck.
- Gluck & Monteverdi opera libretti. International phonetic alphabet transcriptions, word for word translations.
TR 782.10268 GLUC
- Orfeo ed Euridice -- Alceste -- Iphigénie en Aulide -- Iphigénie en Tauride -- L'Orfeo -- Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria -- L'incoronazione di Poppea.
- Handel, George Frideric. International Phonetic Alphabet transcriptions, word for word translations.
TR 782.10268 HAND
- Vol. 1: Rodelinda -- Alcina -- Agrippina -- Giulio Cesare -- Rinaldo -- Ottone.
- Vol. 2: Ariodante -- Serse -- Orlando -- Partenope -- Tamerlano -- Radamisto -- Lotario.
- Italian belcanto opera libretti. International Phonetic Alphabet transcriptions and word for word translations.
TR 782.10268 ITAL
- Vol. 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.
- Vol. 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.
- Vol. 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 verismo opera libretti. International Phonetic Alphabet transcriptions and word for word translations.
TR 782.10268 ITAL
- Andrea Chénier / Giordano -- Fedora / Giordano -- Adriana Lecouvreur / Cilea -- La Bohème / Leoncavallo -- Mefistofele / Boito -- Cavalleria rusticana / Mascagni -- I pagliacci / Leoncavallo -- La Gioconda / Ponchielli -- L'amico Fritz / Mascagni.
- Libretti of Russian Operas. Operas based on the poetry of Alexander Pushkin. International phonetic alphabet transcriptions, word for word translations.
TR 782.10268 LIBR
- Vol. 1: Russlan and Ludmilla / Glinka -- Boris Godunov / Mussorgsky -- Eugene Onegin / Tchaikovsky -- The Queen of Spades / Tchaikovsky -- Aleko / Rachmaninoff -- The Golden Cockerel / Rimsky-Korsakov.
- The Libretti of Mozart's completed operas. International phonetic alphabet transcriptions, word for word translations.
TR 782.10268 MOZA
- Vol. 1: Bastien und Bastienne -- La Clemenza di Tito -- Così fan Tutte -- Don Giovanni -- Die Entführung aus dem Serail -- La finta giardiniera -- La finta semplice.
- Vol. 2: Idomeneo -- Lucio Silla -- Mitridate, Re di Ponto -- Le nozze di Figaro -- Il Re Pastore -- Die Schauspieldirektor -- Die Zauberflöte.
- The complete Puccini libretti. International phonetic alphabet transcriptions, word for word translations.
TR 782.10268 PUCC
- Vol. 1: La Bohème -- Edgar -- La Fanciulla del West -- Madama Butterfly -- Manon Lescaut.
- Vol. 2: La Rondine -- Tosca -- Il Tabarro -- Suor Anggelica -- Gianni Schicchi -- Le Villi.
- Strauss, Richard. Four Strauss opera libretti. International phonetic alphabet transcriptions, word for word translations.
TR 782.10268 STRA
- Der Rosenkavalier -- Elektra -- Salome -- Ariadne auf Naxos.
- The Complete Verdi libretti. International phonetic alphabet transcriptions, word for word translations.
TR 782.10268 VERD
- Vol. 1:Aïda -- Alzira -- Aroldo -- Attila -- Un ballo in maschera -- La battaglia di Legnano - Il Corsaro.
- Vol. 2:Don Carlo -- I due Foscari -- Ernani -- Falstaff -- La forza del destino -- Giovanna d'Arco -- Un giorno di Regno.
- Vol. 3:I Lombardi -- Luisa Miller -- Macbeth -- I Masnadieri -- Nabucco -- Oberto Conte di San Bonifacio -- Otello.
- Vol. 4:Rigoletto -- Simon Boccanegra -- Stiffelio -- La Traviata -- Il Trovatore -- I vespri Siciliani.
- Wagner, Richard. International phonetic alphabet transcriptions, word for word translations.
TR 782.10268 WAGN
- Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg -- Tristan und Isolde -- Parsifal -- Das Rheingold -- Die Walküre -- Siegfried -- Götterdämmerung.