Music and the Spoken Word

Albright, Daniel (University of Rochester, Rochester, NY)
      "Belletristic Music"

Benson, Stephen (Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK)
      "Beckett, Feldman, Joe and Bob: Speaking of Music in Words and Music"

Dougherty, William P. (Drake University, Des Moines, IA)
      "'Wer du auch seist': The Harper in Speech and/or Song"

Kelly, Fr. Columba, OSB (St. Meinrad Archabbey, St. Meinrad, IN)
      "The Influence of Rhetoric on the Rhythmic/Melodic Settings for the Same
      Word As These Settings Are Found in the Core Repertory of Gregorian
      Chant"

King, Margaret (University of Adelaide, Adelaide, AUS)
      "Unnatural Relations? Contemporary Views on the Difficult Marriage of
      Words and Music in the 18th-Century German Singspiel"

Kostakeva, Maria (Bochum, Germany)
      "Disappearance of Sense or a New Semantics? ?he Relation of the Spoken Word and Music in the New Music (Ligeti - Hölzsky - Lachenmann)"

Kramer, Lawrence (Fordham University, New York, NY)
      "Speaking Melody / Melodic Speech"

Lagerroth, Ulla-Britta (Lund University, Lund, Sweden)
      "Music and the Spoken Word in Theatrical Performance: The Case of Ingmar Bergman Staging Shakespeare"

Patnaik, Priyadarshi, Manas K. Mandal and Chandrima Paul (Indian Institute of
Technology, Kharagpur, India)
      "The Impact of Music on the Perception of Texts and Animations"

Wolf, Werner (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Graz, Austria)
      "Language and/or Music as Man's 'Comfort'? Beckett's Metamedial Allegory Words and Music"

Surveying the Field

Halliwell, Michael (University of Sydney, Sydney, AUS)
      "Opera About Opera: Self-referentiality in Opera with Particular Reference to Dominck Argento's The Aspern Papers"

Lodato, Suzanne (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New York, NY)
      "Richard Strauss's Lieder and Text/Music Analysis: A Case Study in False
      Assumptions"

McCombie, Elizabeth (St John's College, Oxford, UK)
      "Mallarmé and Debussy: The Musico-Poetics of Hesitation"

Mosley, David (Goshen College, Goshen, IN)
      "Having Their Way With Words: Nietzsche's Hammer, Heidegger's Deafness, and       Derrida's Trace"

Shaymukhametova, Ljudmila (Ufa State University of Arts, Moscow, Russia)
      "Semantic Analysis of Musical Text"

Thym, Jürgen (Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY)
      "Schubert's Free Verse Setting"

Vaget, Hans (Smith College, Northampton, MA)
      "Blödsinnig schön': The Notion of 'French' Music in Mann's
      Doctor Faustus"

Word and Music Studies: Forum

Bendrups, Dan (Macquarie University, Sydney, AUS)
      "From Patautau to Rapanui Rap: the Reconstruction of Spoken-Song Styles on Easter       Island"

Bottenberg, Joanna (Concordia University, Montreal, Canada)
      "Relations of Word and Music in the Later Films of Ingmar Bergman"

Dayan, Peter (University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK)
      "On Articulation and Truth in Music"

Diaz, Roberto Ignacio (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA)
      "Cherubino's Comrades: Mozart's 'Non più andrai' and the Cuban National
      Anthem"

Lund, Tobias (Lund University, Lund, Sweden)
      "The Importance of the Word-Music Relationship to the Reception History of
      Schubert's Lieder in Cantata Form"

Spies, Bertha (Potchefstroom University, Potchefstroom, South Africa)
      "Rhetoric as a Manner of Speaking in a Musical Miniature by George Crumb"

Stenström, Johan (Lund University, Lund, Sweden)
      "The Spoken Word in Relation to Music in Ingmar Bergman´s Television
      Adaptation of Mozart´s 'Singspiel' The Magic Flute"

Stougaard, Birgitte (University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark)
      "Gesture and Musicality of Language"

Weagel, Deborah (Albuquerque, NM)
      "Musical and Verbal Counterpoint in Thirty-Two Short Films about Glenn
      Gould"