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CALL FOR PAPERS
Conference on Music and Literature in German Romanticism
University College Dublin, Friday 8 - Sunday 10 December 2000
The relationship between music and literature reached its zenith in
the German Romantic era. Music was for German Romantic writers
the highest art form, and it furnished a model of Romantic
aesthetics. These writers were among the first to be sceptical
about language as an adequate means of communication, and
Novalis pleaded for its musical rejuvenation: "Unsere Sprache [...]
muss wieder Gesang werden". E.T.A. Hoffmann famously saw non-
referential instrumental music as the most romantic of all the arts,
and
various types of programme music and other ways of blending
literature and
music also blossomed during German Romanticism.
This interdisciplinary conference aims to explore the mutually
beneficial relationship between music and literature during German
Romanticism. It appeals to musicologists, Germanists and
comparative scholars. The intent is to discuss the mutual
influences between both art forms.
Papers may be offered on any aspect and on any genre, but the
following topics are particularly welcome:
- Aesthetics of music
- Verbal music and verbalisation of music
- Compositions centred on German Romantic texts
- German Romantic Opera
- Lieder
- Music criticism and reviews
- Musical narrative structures and patterns in literary texts
- Musical settings of music-referential literary texts
Abstracts for papers (ca. 200 words, in English) lasting 20 or 45
minutes (please state your preference and we will try to oblige)
should be sent to the conference organisers to arrive at the latest
by 18 September.
The conference will run from mid-afternoon on Friday 8 December
until lunchtime on Sunday 10 December. One of the key-note
speakers is Prof Dr Werner Keil from Detmold/Paderborn.
Abstracts (by e-mail, fax, hard or soft copy) and any queries
should be addressed to the conference organisers:
Dr Siobhán Donovan
Department of German
University College Dublin
Belfield
Dublin 4
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Fax: + 353 1 706 1175
Dr Robin Elliott
Department of Music
University College Dublin
Belfield
Dublin 4
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Fax: + 353 1 269 4409
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