MUSY 255: Music of the Romantic Era (Spring 2025)

A French Song Companion by Graham Johnson; Richard Stokes The French Song Companion is the most comprehensive book of French melodie in any language. The great accompanist Graham Johnson, a noted authority of song, provides repertoire guides to the work of some 150 composers the majority of them from France, but including British, American,German, Spanish, and Italian musicians who have written French vocal music.

Italian Song Texts from the 18th Century by Gerhart, Martha This second volume of Italian song texts from the 18th century contains IPA Transliteration, Word-for-Word English Translation, and Idiomatic Translation by Martha Gerhart.

Masters of the French Art Song by Timothy LeVan A reference for singers, teachers and vocal and operatic coaches, this volume contains the complete song texts of the songs for voice and piano of Chausson, Debussy, Duparc, Faure and Ravel.

Masters of the Italian Art Song by Timothy LeVan An invaluable reference text for singers, teachers, and vocal and operatic coaches, this volume contains the complete song texts of the songs for voice and piano of Bellini, Donaudy, Donizetti, Puccini, Rossini, Tosti, and Verdi, with word-by-word and poetic translations.

Singers' Italian by Evelina Colorni This book deals with Italian phonetics as used in lyric diction and considers the changes that occur between the manner in which a language is spoken and the way it is sung. These changes are due to the inherent differences between speech and song. Since it is written for the singer whose native language is English and who wishes to sing Italian, it is based on a constant comparison between Italian and English.

Russian Songs and Arias by Jean Piatak; Regina Avrashov A solid resource of Russian diction with clear and concise text, precise word-by-word translations and phonetic readings of Russian literature.

Singer's Manual of German and French Diction by Richard G. Cox Introduction. I. German Vowels. II. German Consonants. III. Alphabetical Review of German Phonetics. IV. French Consonants. V. French Vowels. VI. Alphabetical Review of French Phontics. Appendices. I. Reference list of common German prefixes and prepositions used as Prefixes. II. Sample transcriptions of German texts. III. Exercises in "adjacent" vowel sounds in French. IV. Sample transcriptions of French texts. Bibliography.

German Poetry in Song by Lawrence D. Snyder This practical book inventories some 9,800 settings of German poetry, primarily for one voice and piano. Under the first line of each poet's work is a list of the composers who have set the poem to music, giving the composer's title for the song, date of composition or publication when available, opus number, and other significant data. Indexes by composer, first line, and title are also included.

Index to Poetry in Music by Carol June Bradley Encompassing both the art song and Lieder traditions, this book includes: comprehensive lists of the compositions of 125 major western composers; the identities of the poets who wrote the lyrics; titles used by respective composers with cross-references from variant titles used by other composers; cross-references from the first lines; the publishers of the individual songs; and the location of individual songs within the collected works of individual composers and the date of composition.

Musical Settings of American Poetry by Michael Hovland A listing of about 2,400 poems by ninety-nine authors, identifying about 5,800 published musical settings. Separate indexes cover the roughly 2,100 composers involved and the titles both of the original poems and the musical settings.