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 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.
For more information see: WMA Events (wordmusicstudies.net)