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Word and Music Studies: Thirteenth International Conference

"Repetition/Variation in Literature and Music"

June 28th – July 1st, 2023, Munich

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

Provisional programme

FIRST CIRCULAR

It is our pleasure to invite you to Munich for the Thirteenth International Conference of the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA). The local organizer is Frieder von Ammon of the Department of German Philology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU). The conference is hosted by this department. A total of 32 speakers from around the world will participate during the four days of the conference, and we are confident that the forthcoming conference, like its forerunners, will be a significant event in the field.

Conference Venue

The opening of the conference will take place in the ‘Philologicum’ (Ludwigstraße 25, 80539 München); it is just around the corner of the university’s main building (Geschwister Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 München). The rest of the conference will be held at the ‘Seidlvilla’ in Munich-Schwabing (Nikolaiplatz 1B, 80802 München, https://www.seidlvilla.de/), about 15 minutes of walking distance away from the university.
The university area is located near to the city centre and easily accessible by U-Bahn (stop: ‘Universität’) from the central station. The stop closest to Seidlvilla is ‘Giselastraße’.

We are looking forward to receiving your abstracts and hope to be able to welcome you in Munich in June 2023. For general information on the WMA, please consult our web page, www.wordmusicstudies.net.

Accommodation

There are plenty of hotels at all price levels in Munich, but they fill up quickly during the conference period, so participants will be wise to make reservations without undue delay. Here are some suggestions:

http://www.siegestor.de/

http://www.carlton-astoria.de/start.htm

https://www.antares-muenchen.de/

https://www.leonardo-hotels.de/munich/leonardo-boutique-hotel-munich

Conference Activities

The conference will open on Wednesday, June 28, with a welcoming reception at 18:30 h, followed by a performance of the Ursonate by Kurt Schwitters (illustrating the conference topic Repetition/Variation).
On Saturday, July 1, we are organizing an excursion to ‘Kloster Schäftlarn’, a Baroque monastery in the attractive ‘Isartal’ near Munich, which will provide occasion for informal discussions during the trip. The General Assembly, which is open to all members of the association, will take place in a separate room of the monastery’s inn (‘Klosterbräustüberl’), followed by a convivial lunch.
The conference will end no later than at 14:00 h.

During our conference, the ‘Münchner Opernfestspiele’ take place at the Bavarian State Opera. You might want to consult the program:

https://www.staatsoper.de/festspiele/

On Saturday, July 1, a performance will be given of Brett Dean’s opera Hamlet, which might be of a special interest for you since our president, Michael Halliwell, is going to give a paper on this work.

Travel to Munich

Munich is served by Franz Joseph Strauss Airport. The fastest way to get from there to the city is by taxi (≈ € 90). Another option is using public transport. From the airport to the city centre you can use the suburban train line S1 or S8 (≈ € 16).

Public Transport in Munich

For timetable enquiries the app "MVG" available from Google Play and App Store is highly recommendable. After entering the preferred final destination, the application provides the shortest/fastest connection at any time of the day.

Prices: An hourly ticket costs € 3,70 to 5,60, a twenty-four-hour ticket is up to € 16,00. These tickets are also valid for the train to the airport.
Buses and U-Bahn run between the Ludwig Maximilian University and the city centre every 5 to 10 minutes.

Conference Fee

There is no conference fee, but all speakers at the conference are required to become WMA members (and other participants are strongly encouraged to join the organization, too). As a member of the WMA, your annual membership subscription includes the volume of Word and Music Studies in which a selection of the conference papers will be published. For details, please see our website at www.wordmusicstudies.net.

Provisional List (in alphabetical order) of Speakers and Topics

1 Abbott, Helen University of Birmingham Versions and Variations: Repetition in/of Art Song
2 Ammon, Frieder von LMU Munich Word and Music in Series:Reflections on Seriality in Literature and Music
3 Axtner-Borsutzky, Anna LMU Munich Gardens and Songs: Repetitions in and Variations of Goethe’s ‘Singspiel’ Erwin und Elmire (1775/88)
4 Benner, Annalina Justus-Liebig-University Gießen "When I Wake Up I Have Music in My Head": Repetition and Fragmentation in John Darnielle’s Master of Reality (2008)
5 Bergiel, Anna University of Bielsko-Biala, Poland Musical Contexts of Czesław Miłosz’s Poetry: Preliminary Research
6 Cai, Cecily Hamilton College New York State Variations on Exile: Stanisław Barańczak’s Musical Journey
7 Czarnecki, Jan University of Cologne Repetition in Music and in Literature: Some Philosophical Preliminaries
8 da Sousa Correa, Delia The Open University, UK Repetition, Memory and ‘All Sorts of Lives’: the Letters and Fiction of Katherine Mansfield
9 Dayan, Peter University of Edinburgh Where Next for Word and Music Studies?
10 Delazari, Ivan Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan "Beginning Bar 47": Beckett’s Fractured Repetitions of Beethoven’s "Ghost" Trio in the Eponymous TV Play
11 Dooley, Gillian Flinders University, South Australia "The Origins of Speech Lie in Song": Music as Language in J.M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron
12 Englund, Axel Stockholm University Insane or Just Plain Stupid? Music, Irrationality, and Repetition in Musil’s The Man Without Qualities
13 Fahy, Catherine University of York "Into Murphy’s heart it would not enter…": Tuning, Harmony and Musical Variation in Samuel Beckett’s Murphy
14 Falces-Sierra, Marta & Morillas-Arques, Javier University of Granada "My Story Still, Still My Music": Microstructural Analogies in Bernstein’s and Auden’s Age of Anxiety
15 Gamrat, Małgorzata John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin Repetitions and Variations: Rondeau Fantastique in Romantic French Music and Literature
16 Goebel, Rolf J. University of Alabama in Huntsville Sonic Fictionalizing: A New Paradigm For Word and Music Studies?
17 Halliwell, Michael Sydney Conservatorium of Music ‘….or not to be’: The Use of Verbal and Musical Repetition in Brett Dean’s Hamlet
18 Hoene, Christin Maastricht University Variations on a Theme in Words and Music: Kae Tempest’s Brand New Ancients
19 Ifan, Elen Cardiff University The Soundtrack to ‘llunyddiaeth’: Music and Sound in Gwyn Thomas’s Multimedia Poetry
20 Kuhn, Bernhard Bucknell University Pier Paolo Pasolini and Luigi Nono’s I Turcs tal Friûl (1976): Textual and Musical Repetition and Variation
21 Lasheras, Rodrigo Guijarro Universidad de Valladolid Musical Scores within Literary Fiction
22 Majer, Krzysztof University of Lódź, Poland “Distinctly Gouldish Goldbergs”: Variations in John Gould’s Short Fiction
23 Morillas-Arques, Javier University of Granada "Harold Seized his Harp and Tuned his Farewell": A Comparative Analysis of Lord Byron's Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (Canto I) and Berlioz’s Harold en Italie (1st movement)
24 Owen-Jones, Lisa Northern Ireland Writerly Games Writers Play: Patterns, Playlists, and Recurring Themes
25 Samuels, Robert The Open University, UK Schumann’s Repetition, Chopin’s Variations
26 Simmarano, Carmela University of Seville Translation in Music: New Challenges and Perspectives on the Italian-Spanish Singable Translation
27 Spangenberg, Johanna LMU Munich "tell me, ell me… / elm": Repetition and Change in Pierre Boulez’s Beethoven Text
28 Strohschneider, Moritz LMU Munich Martin Opitz’ Die Psalmen Davids (1637/38) as Variations of the ‘Genevan Psalter’
29 Urrows, David Francis Hong Kong Baptist University / Instituto Ricci de Macau Go Ask Guido: The Theoretical Beginnings of Variation and Variations in Western European Music
30 Vattano, Laura Turin / Edinburgh Repetition and Musical Self-Quotation in Alberto Savivio’s Radiodrama Agenzia Fix
31 Vanderbeke, Dirk Friedrich Schiller University Jena Music and Language: An Evolutionary Approach to Multimediality
32 Wolf, Werner University of Graz Repetition in Literature and Music: Similarities and Differences in Large-Scale, Form-Motivated Repetition

13th International Conference on Word and Music Studies

"Repetition/Variation in Literature and Music"

Ludwig Maximilians-University of Munich, June 28 – July 1st, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 13th Conference on Word and Music Studies, organized by the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA) and hosted by Ludwig Maximilians-University of Munich, is scheduled for June 28 to July 1st, 2023. The conveners hereby invite papers on the following topics:

1. Main topic: "Repetition/Variation in Literature and Music" (full-length papers)

The creation of meaningful and beautiful similarities as part of a pattern or structure is among the most important means humankind has developed in order to create, or respond to, order in various contexts and for various purposes. In the arts, similarity is among the most general aesthetic features which have informed all levels of works of art across cultures and times. It may range from all but zero difference between individual occurrences of a phenomenon (‘repetition’) to recognizable ‘variations’ of the same. The forthcoming conference will focus on the manifold forms and functions which repetition and variation can have in both literature and music. Possible tandem explorations of this phenomenon may range from the comparative discussion of macrostructural forms such as the refrain in poetry and the form of theme with variations in music to microstructural recurrences of motifs, themes and other devices, as well as to the creation of patterns as a general background for foregrounded deviations.

2. Further conference topic: "Surveying the Field" (full-length papers)

As at former conferences, a “Surveying the Field” section will feature papers airing general theoretical and methodological questions intrinsic to the scholarly field of Word and Music Studies. Overviews of recent developments and new directions are welcome; however, papers in this area should not address specialised topics.

3. "Research in Progress" (shorter papers)

For some time, the biannual WMA conferences have provided a platform for emerging researchers to present their work in progress in Word and Music Studies. This tradition will be continued in the forthcoming conference. We therefore also welcome shorter talks of 15 minutes dedicated to presenting current research by younger scholars in the field.

Please send abstracts of c. 300 – 400 words and a short bio-bibliographical note via email to the conference convener, Professor Dr Frieder von Ammon by January 1st, 2023 (frieder.vonammon@germanistik.uni-muenchen.de). You will be notified about whether your offer will be accepted as soon as possible. Accepted full papers will have a presentation length of 30 minutes (followed by 15 minutes’ discussion). Subsequent to a peer-review process they may be published in the conference proceedings, which will appear in the book series Word and Music Studies (WMS, published by Brill); shorter papers may be published on the WMA website.

We are confident that the papers emerging from this conference will form valuable contributions to the analysis of repetition/variation in literature and music as a major trend in cultural history as well as to Word and Music Studies in general.

We are looking forward to receiving your abstracts and hope to be able to welcome you in Munich in June 2023. For general information on the WMA, please consult our web page, www.wordmusicstudies.net.

Frieder von Ammon

chief conference convener,
on behalf of the conference team

Message from the WMA President

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

I hope everyone is well and that all have come through the last couple of very frustrating years in good shape and good heart. As you can see from the Call for Papers, the conference venue has changed from Leipzig to Munich. The main reason for this is that our Leipzig convenor, Professor Dr Frieder von Ammon, has moved universities and has agreed to host our conference in Munich, for which we are immensely grateful. I’m sure you will agree that Munich is a very worthy substitute for Leipzig!

The dates for the conference: 28 June - 1 July, 2023, have been chosen to coincide with the Munich Opera Festival, which opens on June 26 (Brett Dean’s Hamlet). More details concerning the conference and related activities will be contained in a circular at a later stage, but there is still the hope that we will open the conference with a concert, as in the past, in the evening of Wednesday, 28 June.

Michael Halliwell, 12 October, 2022


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Dr Frieder von Ammon, Secretary
Dr Axel Englund, President
Dr Gerold W. Gruber, Treasurer

Phone Numbers

(+49)89 2180 2376
(+46)86 747 326
(+43)1 711 55-3510/3533

EMAIL

frieder.vonammon@germanistik.uni-muenchen.de
axel.englund@littvet.su.se
gerold.gruber@exilarte.at