Taking stock of recent trends and preoccupations in the theory, methodology, and
interpretive practice of musicotextual relations is the express aim of this essay. It identifies …

The nineteen interdisciplinary essays assembled in WORD AND MUSIC STUDIES I were
first presented in 1997 at the founding conference of the International Association for Word …

As the field of word and music studies matures, its major exponents, led notably by Steven
Paul Scher and Lawrence Kramer, have become increasingly concerned with defining the …

Melopoetics, the study of the multifarious relations between music and literature, has
emerged in recent years as an increasingly popular field of interdisciplinary inquiry. Brought …

A distinct if diverse musical research area has begun to emerge in recent years. While there
is enough common ground to define it as a research field, its objects and themes are not yet …

The puzzle of what and how music communicates has been the focus of a number of
interdisciplinary approaches in the two decades since the publication by the Modern …

The culturally-oriented musicology of the 1990s set out to examine meanings that had
generally been omitted from most accounts of music. One of its means to that end has been …

Transdisciplinary and intermedial analysis of the experience of music Nowadays musical
semiotics no longer ignores the fundamental challenges raised by cognitive sciences …

This paper develops points arising from the papers presented by Peretz & Morais; Clarke;
Lerdahl; C. Deliège; Baroni, Dalmonte & Jacoboni; and Nattiez, and the discussions that …

The essay raises some basic theoretical issues of word and music studies with a view to
elucidating musicalized fiction as a special case of musicalized literature. It pleads for an …