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From:  Edna Huelsenbeck <huelsen@b...>
Edna Huelsenbeck <huelsen@b...>
Date:  Tue Mar 27, 2001  2:14 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] Latin translation


>I'm working on Ave Maria and need a translation of the
>text. I tried a Latin-English dictionary, but it had
>very few of the words. I tried some translation
>engines on the Web, as well as a downloadable program,
>but they weren't much better. Does anyone know of
>somewhere I can go to get translations of common Latin
>song texts? I had the same problem a few months ago
>when I was working on Panis Angelicus, and I'm sure
>it'll come up again.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jennifer
>

Translations and Annotations of Choral Repertoire
Volume I: Sacred Latin Texts

Compiled and Annotated by Ron Jeffers
Earthsongs, 1988


This has most of the commonly set Latin texts, with both word-by-word
and prose translations, plus some history of each text.

Edna Huelsenbeck
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