Word and Music Studies

The nine interdisciplinary essays in this volume were presented in 2003 in Berlin at the Fourth International Conference on Word and Music Studies, which was sponsored by The International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA). The nine articles in this volume cover two areas: Surveying the Field and Music and the Spoken Word. Topics include postmodernism, philosophy, German literary modernism, opera, film, the Lied , radio plays, and verbal counterpoint. They cover the works of such phil