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ITAS/MUS 123: Poesia per Musica - Popular Italian Song: Find Poetry & Music

Texts and Translations

IPA Source
A full text database of opera aria and art song texts with translations and pronunciation guides.

For those on campus, additional texts and translations for songs and operas can be found at the Music Library, under call numbers ML48 - ML56.4.

Italian Women Writers
Texts by and about Italian women writers from the 13th century through 1945
Italian Dialect Poetry
Full-text of poems as well as bibliographies and biographies. Includes some sound recordings.
Italian Songwriters: Italian Cantautori in Translation
Archive of Italian Canzone d’autore with English translations and commentaries

Poets of the Italian Diaspora: A Bilingual Anthology
An international selection of works by more than 70 Italian-language poets writing in countries from Australia to Venezuela in the 20th and 21st centuries
A Selection of Modern Italian Poetry in Translation
A bilingual collection of 92 poems by 35 Italian poets

Music

Naxos Music Library
Audio streaming service for Western art music from the middle ages to the present.
Naxos allows a limited number of simultaneous users. Please select [?? Log Out at the top left of the screen when you are finished.
Opera in Video
A streaming service for opera performances, documentaries, and interviews.

Italian Songwriters: Italian Cantautori in Translation
Archive of Italian Canzone d’autore with English translations. Includes links to music performances