The texts in this collection have come from many different sources including musical scores, online poetry collections, books, CD booklets, and concert programs; and information about specific settings has often come from bibliographies and catalogs. Beginning in August 2009, icons will be shown to indicate the status of these texts.

The Legend of the Dots

Placement

When a dot is to the right of an author's name, it refers to the text as a stand-alone work, i.e., as one would see it in a poetry collection, play, or book.

When a dot comes at the end of the information about a given composer's setting, it refers to the text as sung.

Meaning

^* When possible we will provide bibliographic information. Some on-line sources regarded as reliable for poetry are websites such as Bartleby, Zeno.Org - Meine Bibliothek, Gutenberg, Wikisource. Many primary sources are also available online at Google Books (make sure to compare the plain text to the page image as typos creep in) and the Petrucci Music Library (formerly the International Music Score Library Project, IMSLP)

Help

Your help in verifying questionable texts is greatly appreciated! Please contact Emily Ezust via e-mail:
emily (AT) lieder (DOT) net
and if possible, indicate your source (book, score, CD booklet, concert program(me), internet poetry website, etc.).