I've just taken on a german speaking adult piano student who will be returning home in 8 months. She speaks good English but we have a lot of basic stuff to cover and I thought it might be useful to have an instant reference list of words so that we are both quite sure we are talking about the same things. Does anyone know of a website with a list of words like bar line, time signature etc in german? I've got note names from the Dolmetsch theory site and I think I've worked out the business with H and B etc but it's the other bits and pieces I need. Thanks.

Saunders recorders website has a little glossary of some terms, though I have quibbles about accuracy of translation of two of them.The site is here, and you have to click on info in the menu at the side, and then on German terms.

I taught a German student last year. I can't help directly with a dictionary, but one thing we found useful was if I referred to the note lengths by their American names (half note, quarter note etc.) as this was a fairly direct translation of the German names.

I found it a very rewarding experience - I hope you do too.

I can't find a specifically music lexicon, but this online dictionary is pretty good;

http://dict.leo.org/

Go to Deutsch-Englisches Woerterbuch and type in the term you're looking for.

... or ask me ...

The ABRSM theory book (the pink one) has a glossary in the back with some equivalent German, English, Italian and French terms.

I still get confused when my teacher asks me to play "H" though!

Thanks everyone for your useful suggestions

I taught in Norway for a long time and was very taken aback when I first learned about the note H. No-one seemed to know how it originated, except that it came from German and there was even a suggestion that it came about by mistake, which I found hard to believe. I'm sure someone here will know!
By the way, when I talked to my Norwegian students about it, they always said "but of course - ABC makes so much more sense!"....

....it does mean you can compose music on the theme B-A-C-H...