Translating song : lyrics and text
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Translating song : lyrics and text
（Translation practices explained）
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017
- pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Song in human culture. Songs have words and sometimes the words really matter.
- Looking closely at the source text, what features can make songs hard to translate?
- Translations to read
- The need to convey the verbal dimension of songs performed in the source language.
- Downstream difficultieS: problems of devising the target text. What is lost in transit?
- Singable translations (a) ø like a Pentathlon. The five main criteria for tts to be sung to existing tunes.
- Singable translations (b) ø rhythm and rhyme
- two troublesome considerations
- The place of adaptations
- The option of deviating from fidelity
