Musics and Cultures Research Group

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Music and Literature in the 19th and 20th Centuries

A day conference organised by the Musics and Cultures Research Group,
The Open University

The Open University Conference Centre
344-354 Gray's Inn Road, London
5 May 2001

Session 1: Influences and Modellings (Chair: Delia da Sousa Correa)

Dostoyevsky and Wagner: The novel as Music Drama
Rosamund Bartlett Birkbeck College, University of London

Two languages, a single poetics: the music and writings of Berlioz
Guillaume Bordry University of Nancy

Literature as Déjà Vu? The Third Movement of Gustav Mahler's First Symphony
Federico Celestini Karl Franzens University, Graz

Janacek's Immortal Beloved and her Literary and Musical Intertexts
Geoffrey Chew Royal Holloway College, University of London

 

Session 2: Gender and the Nineteenth Century (Chair: Sophie Fuller)

Mapping the Moral "Musicienne"
Tili Boon Cuille Washington University in St Louis

Music in Kate Chopin's The Awakening
Tom Cooper The Open University

The Dear Dead Past: The piano in Victorian poetry
Regula Hohl Trillini University of Basel

Session 3: Aesthetic and Generic Issues (Chair: Robert Samuels)

Music and Scientific Discourse
Delia da Sousa Correa The Open University

Myth in the Crossroads: Music, Orality and Identity in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
Kristin C. Brunnemer University of California at Riverside

Music as a Language
Daniel Albright University of Rochester

Plenary round-table discussion