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Song translation and AVT

Babel. Revue internationale de la traduction / International Journal of Translation, 2017
AbstractThere 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.
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Singable translations of songs

Perspectives, 2003
Abstract The making of singable translations of songs is a complex task, chiefly because the target text must be compatible with the pre‐existing music. This article discusses strategies for doing this, and recommends what the author calls ‘the pentathlon principle’ ‐ a deliberate balancing of five different criteria, identified as singability, sense ...
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Translating Songs that Rhyme

Perspectives, 2008
Abstract This article concerns ‘singable translations’ intended for performance in the target language. Translators have often assumed that a song-translation must rhyme as much as the original, and equally well. This false assumption underlies their poor strategic thinking, and prevents them from doing justice to four other aspects of the complex task:
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Translating poetic songs

Target. International Journal of Translation Studies, 2003
Poems have often been turned into songs, notably as GermanLieder.Classical singers use translations of these in several different ways: as cribs for themselves, in printed programmes for their audiences, as singable versions, etc. Since no single target-text is ideal for all of these purposes, the Skopostheorie of Hans J.
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