CFP: Music and the Written Word (University of California, Santa Barbara)

MUSIC AND THE WRITTEN WORD - A GRADUATE CONFERENCE

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA

16 - 17 JANUARY 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

The UCSB Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music (CISM) is seeking submissions for the 2010 “Music and the Written Word” Graduate Conference to be held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, on 16-17 January 2010. Run by and geared towards graduate students, this interdisciplinary conference will focus on music, the written word, and their convergence. We welcome submissions covering the full spectrum of methodologies, disciplinary approaches, and all genres of music.

Possible topics could include, but are not limited to:

--Relationship between music and text
--Text setting
--Musical criticism
--Representations of music in literature and poetry
--Notation and transcription
--Music inspired by literature or poetry
--Music in print media
--Musical poetics
--Music as language/language as music
--Rhetoric and musical practice
--Musical analogy
--Music and grammar
--Music and worship/liturgy
--Language in performance practice
--Concrete words, “ineffable” music
--Music and political speech
--Music and code (C Sound, etc.)

Please send a 200-300-word abstract of your paper to no later than 9 October 2010. Include the abstract as both a file attachment and in the email text. Paper presentations will be allotted twenty minutes, with ten additional minutes for questions and answers.

Details regarding travel, accommodations, and the keynote address will be forthcoming. Updated information will be posted on our website:

http://www.music.ucsb.edu/projects/musicwrittenword/

For questions, suggestions, or other communication, please write to: musicandthewrittenword at gmail.com.

CFP: Music and the Written Word (UCal, Santa Barbara)

MUSIC AND THE WRITTEN WORD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA
16 - 17 JANUARY 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS

The UCSB Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music (CISM) is seeking submissions for the 2010 “Music and the Written Word” Graduate Conference to be held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, on 16-17 January 2010. Run by and geared towards graduate students, this interdisciplinary conference will focus on music, the written word, and their convergence. We welcome submissions covering the full spectrum of methodologies, disciplinary approaches, and all genres of music.

Possible topics could include, but are not limited to:
Relationship between music and text
Text setting
Musical criticism
Representations of music in literature and poetry
Notation and transcription
Music inspired by literature or poetry
Music in print media
Musical poetics
Music as language/language as music
Rhetoric and musical practice
Musical analogy
Music and grammar
Music and worship/liturgy
Language in performance practice
Concrete words, “ineffable” music
Music and political speech
Music and code (C Sound, etc.)

Please send a 200-300-word abstract of your paper to musicandthewrittenword at gmail.com no later than 9 October 2010. Include the abstract as both a file attachment and in the email text. Paper presentations will be allotted twenty minutes, with ten additional minutes for questions and answers.

Details regarding travel, accommodations, and the keynote address will be forthcoming. Updated information will be posted on our website:

http://www.music.ucsb.edu/projects/musicwrittenword/

For questions, suggestions, or other communication, please write to: musicandthewrittenword at gmail.com

Upcoming Conference: Setting Agendas - Text-Setting and the Libretto in Contemporary British Music (University of Southampton)

SETTING AGENDAS: TEXT-SETTING AND THE LIBRETTO IN CONTEMPORARY BRITISH MUSIC
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON
CHAWTON HOUSE LIBRARY, CHAWTON
18 SEPTEMBER 2009

Speakers include: Richard Baker, Stephen Benson, Michael Finnissy, Lavinia Greenlaw, Michael Zev Gordon, John Habron, Brian Inglis, Irene Morra, Julian Philips

For many modern writers and composers, music and literature make an ungainly combination. Stravinsky notoriously regarded his text-settings as a sin, whilst T.S. Eliot refused to demean himself by working as a librettist for Michael Tippett. Yet recent years have seen British composers enlist a series of high-profile literary collaborators for operatic works, from Ian McEwan and Simon Armitage to Seamus Heaney and Vikram Seth. How might this change the relationship between the libretto and the performed work? What questions does the raise about the way modern operatic music is being listened to and disseminated? What are the pragmatics of interdisciplinary collaboration?

This one-day conference will approach these questions in a variety of ways. A series of poets and composers who have worked together will offer their own perspectives on collaborative projects, academics whose work has focused on the British libretto will trace recent developments in the form, and leading British composers will explore how practical and aesthetic considerations inform their use of the written word. The conference will conclude with a short chamber performance.

A limited amount of delegate places are now available for what promises to be a unique event in a stunning location. The conference fee is £25 and includes full lunch, refreshments, and an evening wine reception. In addition, five postgraduate bursaries are available to subsidise the costs of conference registration and travel. To register or for conference enquires please email Will May (w.may at soton.ac.uk).

For more information about the conference and its location, please see chawtonhouse.org and the conference website http://www.soton.ac.uk/english/news/setting_agendas09.html.