Translating Song: Lyrics and Texts
- Author: Low, Peter
Book
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Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction: Song in Human Culture.
- Songs have words and sometimes the words really matter.
- 2. Looking Closely at the Source Text
- What features can make songs hard to translate?
- 3. Translations to Read.
- The need to convey the verbal dimension of songs performed in the source language.
- 4. "Downstream" Difficulties
- Problems of devising the target text. What is lost in transit?
- 5. Singable Translations (A) - Like a Pentathlon
- The five main criteria for TTs to be sung to existing tunes.
- 6. Singable Translations (B) - Rhythm and Rhyme
- Two troublesome considerations
- 7. The Place of Adaptations
- The option of deviating from Fidelity