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In The Songs of Clara Schumann, Stephen Rodgers presents analysis of this oeuvre of art songs. The author maintains that Clara's music must be studied independently from that of her husband, and that it, as well as works by other women composers, merits the same level of analysis afforded to works by male composers. The second section begins with a discussion of her twelve songs without opus numbers. Because these works span her compositional output, they serve to illustrate the development of her style. In addition to the resources for the languages mentioned above, she has written guidebooks to singing in Russian, Spanish, Latin, and Ukrainian, as well as practice journals, textbooks for diction study, and collections of song transcriptions and translations, including Exploring Art Song Lyrics: Translation and Pronunciation of the Italian, German, and French Repertoire (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012; reviewed in Journal of Singing 69, no. 2 (November/December 2012): 235).