Wort und Musik: Liedtexte und Libretti als Übersetzungsphänomen

Kittel, Harald; Frank, Armin Paul; Greiner, Norbert; Hermans, Théo; Koller, Werner; Lambert, José; Paul, Fritz

doi:10.1515/9783110137088.1.15.1036

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“…Many researchers examined the translation of songs/lyrics and outlined its difficulties, principles, aspects, and issues (see M. J. Apter, 1989;D€ urr, 2008;Franzon, 2015;Low, 2005). M. J.…”

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“…Therefore, pursuing a sober translation of the lyrics requires achieving most of the musical features, such as melody, rhyme, rhythm, and sense, to ensure the molding of musical harmony. Numerous scholars agreed upon a principle to achieve a good translation of the lyrics, which is singability (see D€ urr, 2008;Franzon, 2015;Low, 2003). Singability is explained as ''a striving for unity in a musical/textual diction (note/word relations), minding the intentions of the source some composer'' (Franzon, 2015, p. 334).…”

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Options for Translating English Movie Lyrics Into Arabic: A Case study of Netflix Arabic Subtitles of 60 Lyrics

Abu-Rayyash

Haider

2023

SAGE Open

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This study investigates Netflix translation of English movie lyrics into Arabic. It examines and categorizes the subtitles of the movie lyrics based on the translation options proposed by Franzon. Translation options refer to the different methods or approaches a translator can use when translating a song. A parallel corpus of 60 lyrics extracted from 10 musical movies was compiled by aligning the English script and Arabic subtitles. The researchers found that Netflix’s subtitlers employed four options for rendering English lyrics into Arabic. These are neglecting the music in translating the lyric (literal subtitling), which was used in rendering 60% of the investigated lyrics, not translating the lyrics (deletion), which was observed in 17% of the cases, and adapting the music to the translation (esthetic subtitling) was followed in rendering only five lyrics (8%). Finally, incorporating the three previous options (blended subtitling), which was adopted in subtitling 15% of the investigated data. This study recommends further research on the audience reception of the different subtitling options of lyrics. The findings of the current study can be useful for subtitlers and translation students, especially those interested in literary translation and musical movie translation.

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Options for Translating English Movie Lyrics Into Arabic: A Case study of Netflix Arabic Subtitles of 60 Lyrics

Abu-Rayyash

Haider

2023

SAGE Open

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“…Aus musikwissenschaftlicher Perspektive vgl. Dürr (2004) und Baron (1967); Impulse gehen von der Librettoforschung aus, zuletzt Agnetta (2019). 7 Schneider (2008).…”

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Liedkultur des 17. Jahrhunderts als Übersetzungskultur

Dröse

Springfeld

2021

Übersetzungskulturen Der Frühen Neuzeit

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ZusammenfassungIn our paper we analyse translations of Italian and French songs into German from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century. The methods of translation employed range from a narrow focus on the words and music of the original song to free variation. Analysing the bimedial relationship of words and music is the principal focus of our study. We ask: What consequences does a translation have for the text-sound relationship? In the first part of the study, we develop a heuristic methodology that describes this phenomenon while taking into account the cultural context of each translation. In the second part, we put this model to the test by examining a prominent song collection: Heinrich Albert’s Arien oder Melodeyen (Königsberg, 1638–1650), which contains a large number of as yet unidentified French and Italian originals. Two case studies on the translation of an Air de Cour and an Italian aria, as well as reflections on the digital accessibility of song translation, conclude the paper.

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Song translation and AVT

Jiménez

2017

Babel

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There is no doubt that music plays an important role in people’s lives and, consequently, in different societies and cultures. Through music, the distinctive features of societies and cultures can be appreciated, while, at the same time, its condition of universal language acts as a means of communication among them. Translation Studies has recently started to pay attention to the relationship between translation and music. The study of the translation of songs, opera and other musical products is a subject that can enrich the field. In addition to this, owing to the peculiar nature of the musical text, the translation of music can be linked to other disciplines within Translation Studies, as is the case with AVT. In this work, we will analyse the similarities and differences between AVT and song translation. We will show that some of the translation strategies used in AVT can be applied to other types of multimodal translation, like song translation. We will also consider some cases in which song translation becomes part of AVT, as happens in the translation of TV series or films in which there are songs.

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Wort und Musik: Liedtexte und Libretti als Übersetzungsphänomen

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Options for Translating English Movie Lyrics Into Arabic: A Case study of Netflix Arabic Subtitles of 60 Lyrics

Options for Translating English Movie Lyrics Into Arabic: A Case study of Netflix Arabic Subtitles of 60 Lyrics

Liedkultur des 17. Jahrhunderts als Übersetzungskultur

Song translation and AVT

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