A Study Day
Friday 16 October 2015
9:30am – 5:30pm
Okinaga Room,
Wadham College, Oxford
In association with the Open University Literature and Music Research Group, the Faculties of Modern Languages and of Music at Oxford University, and Wadham College
To introduce the theme of this year’s Festival, we are delighted to welcome an array of renowned scholars and speakers for a one-day symposium exploring the relationship between words and music. The day will comprise eight 20-minute papers around a lunchtime concert. The tone of the day will be scholarly but very much accessible, and all are warmly invited.
A schedule follows here. Scroll to the bottom of the page to download a full schedule that includes abstracts for all the talks.
Tickets: £20 (incl. lunchtime concert). Lunchtime concert only: £10. Click here to book tickets.
Schedule
09.30am – 10.00am: Coffee and Welcome
10.00am – 12.15pm: Papers
Chair: Helen Abbott
Singing Words
Angela Leighton
Sappho’s Russian Voices
Philip Ross Bullock
Pushing the boundaries of the French mélodie: 20 years of Debussy (1882–1902)
Richard Langham Smith
Music in love with poetry
Peter Dayan
12.15pm – 1.pm: Lunch break
1.10pm – 2.10pm: Recital, Holywell Music Room
Music by Debussy and Schumann
Benjamin Appl baritone
Sholto Kynoch piano
Richard Wigmore speaker
2.30pm – 4.30pm: Papers
Chair: Laura Tunbridge
Singing Mignon: Goethe versus Beethoven’s view of Lyric Song
Amanda Glauert
Song-Cycles for Mignon
Terence Cave
The Poetic Muse: Goethe, Schubert and the Art of Song
Lorraine Byrne Bodley
Words into Music into Words: Singing Tones and Musical Poetry
Robert Samuels
4.30pm: Tea
4.40pm Final Round Table and Audience Discussion
Chair: Delia da Sousa Correa
The Symposium Speakers and Timothy Coombes
5.30pm: Close