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Music Performance and Pedagogy: Voice: Texts & Translations

Library Databases for IPA & Word-by-Word Translation

Diction Police
Lyric diction resource providing access to phonetic transcriptions (IPA), translations, text readings, diction information, and video tutorials.
IPA Source
Searchable International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and translations of opera arias and art song texts. Includes searchable texts in Latin, Italian, German and French from many composers.

Don't see the song or aria you need in Diction Police or IPA Source? Take a look in the Bird Library reference section by browsing the PDF below.

Song & Aria Translation at SU Libraries
updated Feb. 2018

Libretti, Lyrics and Scripts at SU Library

The SU Libraries has many books with song lyrics by various pop and folk artists, as well as a collection of opera libretti and musical scripts.

Search the library catalog:

Opera libretti & Musical scripts

search for the title of the opera or musical and the subject keyword "librettos"
or, browse class ML50 by composer, or browse ML49 for collections
Musicals & operas are both considered stage shows and are alphabetized together

Song lyrics

search for the composer or artist name and the subject keyword "texts"
Browse class ML54.6 for some collections

Choral Text Translation

Translations and Annotations of Choral Repertoire, translated and annotated by Gordon Paine

Volume I, Sacred Latin texts
REF ML47 .J45 v.1
Volume II, German texts
REF ML47 .J45 v.2
Volume III, French and Italian texts
REF ML47 .T736 v.3 2007
Volume IV, Hebrew texts
REF ML47 .T736 v.4 2009

Art Song & Aria Texts -- Free on the Web

Lied, Art Song, and Choral Texts Archive
Aria Database
Russian Art Song
IPA transcriptions and word for word translations, Song lyrics read by a native speaker, Multimedia online diction manuals
Hampsong Foundation Resources
song texts, concert programs, and other resources