Symposium: Word and Music Studies

Conference

Date: Saturday 9 March 2024

Time: 10.00 – 16.30

Location: Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Library (300)

Welcome to an international symposium that addresses the interplay between music and literature.

This day will give a snapshot of the current state of word-and-music studies, an expanding field which has been developing in exciting new directions in recent years.

The symposium is a collaboration between The International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA) and the Word and Music Association Forum (WMAF), and is financed by the Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation.

Please register to Professor Axel Englund no later than 6 March:

axel.englund@littvet.su.se

Programme

10:00–11:00	Session 1 Jessie Fillerup, “The Musician as Magical Machine: From ‘Blind Tom’ Wiggins to Ravel” Michael Halliwell, “Book to Film to Opera: The Hours (Kevin Puts)”
	Coffee
11:30–12:30	Session 2 Ivana Trajanoska, “Musicalization of Fiction as a Vehicle for Intercultural Understanding in the children’s novel The White Gipsy Boy by Vidoe Podgorec” Christin Höne, “Music in contemporary Scottish fiction”
	Lunch
14:00-15:00	Session 3 Walter Bernhart, “Piano Pieces with ‘Descriptive’ Titles: A Form of Literarised Music?” Alexandra Reznik, "Constructing Disputed Lands' Literatures: The Political Significance of Words and Music in Three Case Studies."
	Coffee
15:30–16:30	Session 4 Jan Czarnecki, "Settings (un-)faithful to explicit in-text musical directives" Concluding discussions

Theme

Culture and Media

Research subjects

Media, materiality and literature Modern and Contemporary literature Opera and musical

Last updated: March 4, 2024

Source: Department of Culture and Aesthetics