Diction Resources for Singers

Web pronunciation sound files

• "The Big List of Names" composers, titles, conductors, performers; phonetic spellings, no IPA, multi-language
  http://www.pronunciationguide.info/thebiglist.html
• OnMusic Dictionary (Successor to Virginia Tech Music Dictionary): comprehensive list of terms with written phonetics, plus links
• IPA chart (full chart, fonts, sounds)
• http://www.dictiondomain.com/
  (language sounds, diction resource lists, tutorials)
• http://www.antimoon.com/how/pronunc-soundsipa.htm
  (sounds of English and IPA, with key words; Amer and Brit)

Web phonetic spellings, IPA, and/or translations

• Pronouncing Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Iowa St. U.)
  Preface
• The Lied, Art Song, and Choral Texts Page
  over 50,000 texts, over 10,000 translations
  http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/
• The Aria Database
  information on each aria, translations for many, some sound files http://www.aria-database.com/
• http://artsongcentral.com/
  http://artsongcentral.com/2009/ipa-files-for-the-entire-collection/
  (downloadable IPA for German, French, Latin, and Italian songs)
• http://www.dictiondomain.com/
  (diction resources, tutorials)
• Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, 3rd edition
  over 225,000 pronunciations in both British and American English, IPA http://www.pearsonlongman.com/dictionaries/LPD/

More web resources

• Leyerle song anthologies usually have texts, IPA, translations
  http://www.leyerlepublications.com/?v=song_texts
• "Diction Coach" series includes recitation of texts, IPA, translations
  http://www.halleonard.com
• IPA Source (not free)
  IPA transcriptions and literal translations of arias and art songs
  http://www.ipasource.com/
• PhoneticSoft (not free)
  software to create IPA on your PC for Latin, Italian, German, French texts
  http://www.ipanow.com
• The official website for Cheri Montgomery, the author of our texts for undergraduate diction including free IPA charts. www.cherimontgomery.com and www.stmpublishers.com.
• A free download of the IPA Palatte to produce documents with IPA fonts.http://www.blugs.com/IPAPalette/

Books on pronouncing names and terms

• The Well-Tempered Announcer/ Robert A.Fradkin
  Good general reference, lots of information, index.
  ML109 .F731996
• Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names / John K. Bollard includes over 23,000 proper names, phonetics and IPA
  PE1137 .P822 1998
• Pronouncing Dictionary of Musical Terms
  includes works & composers,phonetic readings, no IPA
  ML109 .C59
• Oxford Dictionary of Pronunciation (both Amer and Brit)
  PE1137.U66 2001
• Longman Pronunciation Dictionary / J.C. Wells
  IPA for both Amer and Brit
  PE1137 .W44 1990
  Book is 1st ed.; for 3rd ed., see http://www.pearsonlongman.com/dictionaries/LPD/
• Singing Early Music / T.J. McGee., A.G. Rigg, D.N. Klausner IPA for Late Middle Ages and Renaissance song texts
  MT883 .S56 1996+LPCD 72561
• The Goliard Poets / George F.Whicher
  medieval Latin songs with translations
  ML54.6 G64 1949

Books with Phonetic readings and/or IPA, and translations by language
(for Latin, see Conductors tab)

Multiple Languages

• The Ring of Words: an Anthology of Song Texts / Philip Lieson Miller
  ML54.6 .M5 R5 1973
• Word-by-Word Translations of Songs and Arias, part 1, German and French / Berton Coffin and Pierre Delattre
  ML54.6 .W65 v.1
• Word-by-Word Translations of Songs and Arias, part 2, Italian /
  Arthur Schoep and Daniel Harris
  ML54.6 .W65 v.2

Opera Libretti (IPA and translations)

• French Opera Libretti / Nico Castel
  ML48 .F875 1999 (3 volumes)
• German Miscellaneous Opera Libretti / Nico Castel
  ML48 .G47 2005
• Italian Belcanto Opera Libretti / Nico Castel
  ML48 .I82 2000 (3 volumes)
• Italian Verismo Opera Libretti / Nico Castel
  ML48 .I88 2000 (2 volumes)
• Opera Choruses Pronunciation Guide
  LPCD 129,799 - 129,800
• Carmen: A Performance Guide/ M. Dibbern
  MT883 .D502 2000
• Handel Opera Libretti
  ML49 .H13 K4 2005
• The Janacek Opera Libretti / Timothy Cheek
  ML49 .J36 J37 2003
• The Libretti of Mozart's Completed Operas
  ML49 .M83 C37 1997 (2 volumes)
• The Complete Puccini Libretti / Nico Castel
  ML49 .P75 C37 1994 (2 volumes)
• Four Strauss Opera Libretti / Nico Castel
  ML49 .S87 C3 2002
• The Complete Verdi Libretti
  ML49 .V45 C372 1994 (3 volumes)
• Three Wagner Opera Libretti
  ML49 .W14 R57 2006
• [Wagner] Der Ring des Nibelungen
  ML50 .W14 R32 2003

Czech

• Singing in Czech: A Guide to Czech Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire / Timothy Cheek
  MT883 .C44 2001 + LPCD 84852

French

• The Interpretation of French song / Pierre Bernac
  MT892 .B4 1978
• Masters of the French Art Song: Translations of the complete Songs of Chausson, Debussy, Duparc, Fauré & Ravel / Timothy Le Van
  ML54.6 .M33 1991

German

• Ten Cycles of Lieder (Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler, Schubert, Schumann) / Marie-Therese Paquin
  ML54.6 .D59
• The Fischer-Dieskau Book of Lieder / D. Fischer-Dieskau
  ML54.6 .F572 1977
• German Lieder / P.L. Miller, ed.
  ML54.6 .G275 1990
• Lieder Line by Line: and Word for Word / Lois Phillips
  ML54.6 .P55 L5 1996
• The Penguin Book of Lieder / S. Prawer
  ML54.6 .P75 P5

Italian

• Italian Song Texts from the 17th through the 20th Centuries/ Martha Gerhart
  ML54.6 .I82 2002 (2 volumes)
• Arie Antiche / Dorothy Richardson and Tina Ruta
  ML54.6 .A75 1990 (LIB USE ONLY)

Russian

• Russian Songs & Arias: Phonetic Readings, Word-by-Word Translations, and a Concise Guide to Russian Diction /Jean Piatak and Regina Avrashov
  ML54.6 .P58 1991

Spanish

• The Singer's Anthology of 20th Century Spanish Songs / Josep Miquel Sobrer & Edmon Colomer
  ML54.6 .S57 1987
• The Spanish Song Companion / Jaqueline Cockburn & Richard Stokes
  ML54.6 .S595 2006

Books with Phonetic readings and/or IPA, and translations by composer

Bizet

• Carmen: A Performance Guide/ M. Dibbern
  MT883 .D502 2000

Brahms

• Texts of the vocal Works of Johannes Brahms / Henry S. Drinker
  ML49 .B85
• Brahms's Vocal Duets and Quartets with piano / Lucien Stark
  MT115 .B73 S7 1998
• A Guide to the Solo Songs of Johannes Brahms / Lucien Stark
  MT115 .B73 S73 1995
• Brahms' Complete Song Texts / Beaumont Glass
  ML54.6 .B72 G62 1999
• Phonetic Readings of Brahms Lieder/ Candace A. Magner
  MT883 .M23 1987

Debussy

• The Singer's Debussy / Marie-Claire Rohinsky
  ML54.6 .D42 R62 1987
• The Poetic Debussy / M. Cobb; transl. R. Miller
  ML54.6 .D42 C62 1982

Monteverdi

• Monteverdi Songs & Madrigals /Denis Stevens
  ML54.7 .C54 2000

Moussorgsky

• English Texts for the Songs of Modeste Moussorgsky /
  Henry S. Drinker
  ML54.6 .M9 D7 1950

Rachmaninoff

• Rachmaninov's Complete Song Texts / Laurence Richter
  ML54.6 .R18 R5 2000
• The Singer's Rachmaninoff / Natalia Challis
  ML54.6 R18 S52 1989

Rodrigo

• A Singer's guide to the Songs of Joaquin Rodrigo / Suzanne Rhodes Draayer
  ML410 .R632 D73 1999

Schubert

• The Schubert Song Companion / John Reed
  (see music library reserves)
• Texts of the Solo Songs of Franz Schubert in English Translation / Henry S. Drinker
  ML54.6 .S39 D7 1951
• Schubert: the Complete Song Texts / Richard Wigmore
  ML54.6 .S39 W53 1988 (LIB USE ONLY)
• Schubert's Complete Song Texts / Beaumont Glass
  ML54.6 .S39 G5 (2 volumes)
• Schubert and Schumann: Songs and Translations / Robert R. Garran
  ML54.6 .S39 G3 1946

Schumann

• Texts of the vocal Works or Robert Schumann/ Henry S. Drinker
  ML49 .S38 1947
• The Singer's Schumann / Thilo Reinhard 1989
• Schubert and Schumann: Songs and Translations / Robert R. Garran
  ML54.6 .S39 G3 1946

Tchaikovsky

• Tchaikovsky's Complete Song Texts / L.R. Richter
  L54.6 .T24 R52 1999 (LIB USE ONLY)
• Tchaikovsky's Complete Songs: A Companion with Texts and Translations / R.D. Sylvester
  ML54.6 .T24 S9 2002 + LPCD 87502

Wolf

• Hugo Wolf's Complete Song Texts / Beaumont Glass
  ML54.6 .W62 G6 2000
• Texts of the Solo Songs of Hugo Wolf / Henry S. Drinker
  ML54.6 .W62 D72 1949

Diction manuals by language

Multiple languages by author last name

• A Handbook of Diction for Singers: Italian, German, French / David Adams
  MT883 .A23 1999
• The Singer's Manual of German and French Diction /
  Richard G. Cox
  MT883 .C69
• Diction: Italian, Latin, French, German / John Moriarty
  MT872 .M67
• The Singer's Guide to Languages / Marcie Stapp
  includes verb charts and translation hints
  MT883 .S73 1996
• International Phonetic Alphabet for Singers: A Manual for English and Foreign Language Diction / Joan Wall
  MT883 .W35 1989
• Diction for Singers: A Concise Reference for English, Italian, Latin, German, French, and Spanish / Joan Wall et al.
  MT883 .D52 1990

Czech

• Singing in Czech / Timothy Cheek
  MT883 .C44 2001 + LPCD 84852

English

• Singing in english: A Manual of English Diction for Singers and Choral Directors / Richard Cox
  MT883 .C692 1990
• American Diction for Singers / Geoffrey G. Forward
  MT883 .F67 1994
• Singing and Communicating in English: A Singer's Guide to English Diction / Kathryn LaBouff
  MT883 .L12 2008

French

• French Lyric Diction / Thomas M. Donnan
  MT 883 .D66 1994
• Singing in French / Thomas Grubb
  MT883 .G88
• Dictionnaire de la prononciation française / Léon Warnant
  No definitions, just IPA for words; includes a section in the back with IPA for names of people and places.
  PC2137 .W3 1987 (on 4th fl. reserve shelf with books by author)

German

• Gateway to German Diction / Paton
  MT883 .P32 1999
• German for Singers / William Odom
  MT883 .O35

Italian

• Singers' Italian / Evelina Colorni
  MT883 .C64

Latin

• Singer's Manual of Latin Diction and Phonetics / Robert S. Hines
  MT883 .H55

Russian

• Russian Songs & Arias: Phonetic Readings, Word-by-Word Translations, and a Concise Guide to Russian Diction /Jean Piatak and Regina Avrashov
  ML54.6 .P58 1991

Spanish

• A Singer's Manual of Spanish Lyric Diction / Nico Castel
  (see music library reserves)

Books on interpretation of songs and arias

General

• Sensibility and English Song/ Stephen Banfield
  ML2831 .B35 1985 (2 volumes)
• Recent American Art Song / Keith E. Clifton
  ML128 .S3 C65 2008
• A Performer's Guide to Baroque Music / Robert Donington
  ML457 .D65 1974
• American Art Song and American Poetry (3 vol) /
  Ruth C. Friedberg
  ML2811 .F75
• Bringing Opera to Life / Boris Goldovsky
  ML1700 .G738 B7
• Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Vocal Style and Technique / Sally Allis Sanford
  MT823 .S25 1979a
• A History of Song / ed. Denis Stevens
  ML2800 .S8 1970
• Interpretive Guide to Operatic Arias / Martial Singher
  MT892 .S5 1983
• A French Song companion/ Graham Johnson and Richard Stokes
  ML54.6 .J76 F74 2000

Composers (by composer last name)

• The Poetic Debussy (song texts and letters)
  ML54.6 .D42 C62 1982
• On the Interpretation of the Melodies of Claude Debussy / Jane Bathori
  MT145 .D4 B413 1998
• Nineteenth-Century French Son: Fauré, Chausson, Duparc, and Debussy / Barbara Meister
  Interpreting the Songs of Gabriel Fauré / Robert Gartside
  ML410 .F27 G37 1996
• A Grieg Song Anthology / Ellingboe & Leyerle
  M1620 .G75 E54 1990
• Interpreting the Songs of Jacques Leguerney/Dibbern et al.
  MT121 .L44 D53 2001
• Francis Poulenc: The Man and His Songs / Pierre Bernac
  ML410 .P787 B53 1977
• The Unknown Puccini: A Historical Perspective on the Songs /
  Michael Kaye
  M3.1 .P85 V64 1987
• Interpreting the songs of Maurice Ravel / Robert Gartside
  ML410 .R23 G37 1992
• A Singer's Guide to the Songs of Joaquín Rodrigo / Suzanne Draayer
  ML410 .R632 D73 1999
• Schubert: A Biographical Study of His Songs / Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
  ML410 .S3 F573
• A Companion to the Schwanengesang / Martin Chusid
  ML410 .S3 C65 2000
• The Songs of Robert Schumann / Eric Sams 1993
  (see music library reserves)
• The Songs of Hugo Wolf / Eric Sams
  MT145 .W6 S3 1992