The essay continues Steven Paul Scher‘s well-known and influential typological reflections on the field of word and music relations, which he has devised since the late 1960s, and tries to rechart this field in order to accommodate developments which have since occurred: the rise of intermedia studies in general and, in particular, of musico-literary perspectives that do not merely focus on” intracompositional ‘phenomena, which can be observed exclusively within given works, but also” extracompositional ‘relations, which occur between works transmitted in different media. Word and music relations are here seen as part of the wider field of intermediality, of which a general typology is proposed. It is a partial reconceptualization of a previous typology in the light of ongoing research. Former discussions of intermedia or interart relations have tended to focus on what I call” intracompositional intermediality ‘or” intermediality in the narrow sense ‘and on its subforms:” plurimediality ‘, and” intermedial reference ‘through” thematization ‘and” imitation ‘of other media. As distinct from this approach, my typological revisiting of intermediality starts from a broader sense of the term, which also includes” extracompositional ‘intermediality and its subforms” transmediality ‘and” intermedial transposition ‘. All forms discussed are shown to be of relevance for word and music studies. The essay concludes with some perspectives of research that go beyond typological concerns.