Aplogies for my first posting to this list being a plug for a conference. I hope it
will be of interest to some of you.
Susan Brock
Beyond the Lyric: a colloquium
For poets, composers and commissioners
CAPITAL Centre, University of Warwick,
11am to 5.30pm, 3 November 2008
Register at
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/capital/beyondthelyric/registration/
The practical connection between music and poetry is as old as song itself.
But what, if any, is the link between language and abstract musical form?
Musicians traditionally approach poems as texts for setting to music. Poets
tend to associate musicality with metre and strict form: qualities which they
assume make a poem “fit” with music. Is there any deeper, qualitative affinity
to be found between poetry and music, either in rhythmic temporal structures
such as line, or through more nebulous attributes including openness
of “meaning”? How might an interest in music influence a poet – and vice-
versa? How can such influences be best articulated in writing about and
teaching poetry or composition?
You are invited to participate in a colloquium on this under-explored topic.
Contrasted presentations will give structure to the event, and we would
greatly appreciate your expert participation, since this is not a conference but
a discussion day for committed, expert writers and musicians – as well as
those involved in composition, creative writing, musicology and English
studies.
Confirmed speakers/performers are, in alphabetical order:
• Sally Beamish and the Coull Quartet on their new commission for
voice and string quartet
• David Harsent on collaborating with Harrison Birtwistle on Gawain and
The Minotaur – and other libretti
• Stephen Goss on the influence of music on his own work
• Alan Jenkins on Philip Larkin’s music
• Don Paterson on music as poetics
The day will conclude with a concert by the Coull Quartet to mark the 30th
Anniversary of their residency at the University of Warwick.
No Charge.
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