Essential Resources for a Voice Teachers Studio
GENERAL
Guide to Operatic Roles and Arias, Boldrey
The Art of the Song recital, Emmons and Sontag
Researching the Song, Emmons and Lewis
Song, a Guide to Art Song, Style, and Literature, Carol Kimball
Word by Word Translations of Songs and Arias, Berton Coffin
An Interpretive Guide to Operatic Arias, Martial Singher
The Ring of Words, Miller
Over 300 art songs of Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Russia, Norway, and Sweden, with line-by-line English translations.
Diction, John Moriarty
Italian, Latin, French, German...the sounds and 81 exercises for singing them
GERMAN
The Fischer-Dieskau Book of Lieder, Fischer-Dieskau
Schubert Song Companion, Reed
Brahms Complete Song Texts (with IPA), Glass
Schubert Complete Song Texts (with IPA), Glass
Schumann Complete Song Texts (with IPA), Glass
Wolf Complete Song Texts (with IPA), Glass
FRENCH
The Interpretation of French Song, Pierre Bernac
The French Song Companion, Graham Johnson
ITALIAN
Italian Songs Texts from the 17th through 20th Centuries (with IPA), Marth Gerhart
Master of the Italian Art Song, Timothy Le Van
ONLINE
ART SONG CENTRAL: IPA for Songs in French, German, Italian and Latin
IPA Source
Translations, Translations, Translations
Florio's 1611 Italian/English Dictionary: For that old version of Italian language in early music
Diction: vocal diction resource for singers
MISCELLANEOUS
SIGHT READING FACTORY: Sight reading exercises online
6 Sources:
The Interpretation of French Song, Pierre Bernac
The Art of the Song recital, Emmons and Sontag
Researching the Song, Emmons and Lewis
The Fischer-Dieskau Book of Lieder, Fischer-Dieskau
RECMUSIC: Translations
http://www.recmusic.org
ART SONG CENTRAL: IPA for Songs in French, German, Italian and Latin
