Research Guides: MUS 155A: Kosowski: From the Library's Collections

IPA Transcription in Tarver

You can access the Library of Congress Call number guidelines for Music at this link:

The Complete Verdi Libretti by Leyerle Publications
Call Number: Tarver Reference: ML49.V45 C372 1994
Italian Belcanto Opera Libretti by Leyerle Publications
Call Number: Tarver Reference ML48 .I83 2000
Volume III also includes some French libretti.
Gluck & Monteverdi Opera Libretti by Leyerle Publications
Call Number: Tarver Reference: ML48 .G57 2008
Includes some French libretti, as well.

French Opera Libretti by Leyerle Publications
Call Number: Tarver Reference: ML48 .F74 1999

The libretti of Mozart's completed operas by Leyerle Publications
Call Number: Tarver Stacks: ML49.M83 C315 1997
Includes Mozart's Italian libretti, too.
Four Strauss opera libretti by Leyerle Publications
Call Number: Tarver Reference: ML49.S76 O62 2002

Exploring Art Song Lyrics by Jonathan Retzlaff; Cheri Montgomery
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9780199775323
Publication Date: 2012-05-11
This volume features the original poem, a concise English translation, and an IPA transcription from a large selection of arriette, lieder, and mélodies.

Masters of the Italian Art Song by Timothy LeVan
Call Number: Tarver Stacks: ML54.6 .M34 1990
ISBN: 9780810823631
Publication Date: 1993-04-01
Masters of the French Art Song by Timothy LeVan
Call Number: Tarver Stacks: ML54.6 .M33 1991
ISBN: 0810842122
Publication Date: 1991-01-01
The Fischer-Dieskau Book of Lieder by George Bird (Translator); Richard Stokes (Translator); Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Call Number: Tarver Stacks: PT1160.E6 F5 1977
ISBN: 9780879100049
Publication Date: 2004-08-01

You can find physical CDs on the 2nd floor of Tarver Library. The cabinet is behind DVDs and next to the Honors Student Lounge.

You can find a large number of digital audio recordings (and some libretti) in the database below:

NAXOS Music Library This link opens in a new window
Naxos Music Library is a vast online classical music library, offering streaming access to tens of thousands of CDs. The library offers the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues plus the complete catalogues or selected titles from over 378 classical, jazz and world music labels with more labels joining every month. Classic pop and rock music as well as Chinese orchestral music are also represented.

You can find film recordings of select operas in these databases:

Kanopy Video Streaming This link opens in a new window
Kanopy has a few filmed performances of operas: The Mikado, La Bohème, Aida, Satyagraha, Moses and Aaron, Fidelio, and Die Liebe Der Danae. They also have an vignette-sort-of-recording called Aria.
Films On Demand This link opens in a new window
Films-on-Demand has Don Giovanni, Othello, Carmen (two versions, actually!), Lohengrin, Faust, Madame Butterfly, Die Zauberflöte, La Traviata, Tristan and Isolde, Le Nozze di Figaro, Pagliacci, Cavalleria Rusticana, Tannhäuser, Gianni Schicchi, Elektra, Fierrabras, Rigoletto, Lear, Un Ballo in Maschera, Falstaff, La Sonnambula, Die Zarenbraut, La Fanciulla del West, Pelléas et Mélisande, Stiffelio, Don Carlos, Rienzi, L'incoronazione di Poppea, and Katya Kabanova.