Language tools for music cataloging
Last content review: 2025-09-04
Music-specific
Common terms used in German publications and thematic indices
The names of numbers in French, German, Italian, and Spanish | other languages | Numerals in various languages: Indo-European languages (Wikipedia)
The names of keys in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish
The names of instruments and voices in English, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish
Cadenza glossary: a multi-lingual dictionary of musical terms English, French, German, and Serbian
See also General music cataloging resources
General
List of initial articles: by language | complete list in alphabetical order from LC
Foreign language equivalents for bibliographic information (Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish) (Internet Archive version)
Russian and other Cyrillic languages
ALA-LC transliteration tables: Russian (cursive Russian [Omniglot]) | Ukrainian (cursive Ukrainian [Wikipedia])
Cyrillic language alphabets and how they diverge from one another
Online transliterator note: may not follow the ALA-LC transliteration schemes
Woxikon translates words and word sequences in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish
Language identifier (This can also be done with the camera feature in Google Translate for non-Latin script print resources)