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Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations
An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world
required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists
should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.
- Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (1920)
For other inquiries regarding general information, memberships, or subscriptions, please e-mail lyricasociety@aol.com.
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Welcome to the Internet site of the Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations, an
independent academic and artistic organization which investigates and promotes
the myriad of interactions between text and music. Lyrica was
founded by Dr. Louis Auld, Professor of French Literature at Central Connecticut
State University in 1981. Since then, it has grown to include nearly 500 members
in North America, Europe, Turkey and Japan. After serving as Editor of our
peer-reviewed journal, Ars Lyrica, and
as Secretary-Treasurer for seventeen years, Professor Auld retired from those
posts, but remains active as an advisor to the Society's Executive
Board. Lyrica welcomes literary, musicological and performance-practice
research into word-music issues crossing all historical periods, and enveloping
all musical and literary genres and cultural frameworks. Chronologically through
the academic calendar, the Society is present at the annual conventions of the
American Musicological Society, the Modern Language
Association, the National Opera Association (biennially), where our
focus is African-American culture, Renaissance Society of
America, and the American Comparative Literature Association, where
our seminar explores a special topic each year.
Lyrica holds a Scholarly Essay Competition every other year, which awards the Louis Auld and Isabelle Cazeaux Prizes for essays that enhance research in our field of study. Our Society also participates at selected conferences where our members’ contributions would be welcomed, specialized contributions; notably, we offered four lectures at Rider University’s April 2006 conference Music and the Asian Diaspora . Annually, we hold the Harvard-Lyrica Dialogues at Lehman Hall, Dudley House, in Harvard Yard, where distinguished scholars and affiliates of the University present and debate their research. The Lyrica Society publishes an annual Newsletter which includes news of our activities past and future, and feature articles on important events in the world of arts and letters. As of 2008, Ars Lyrica is published by the Brepols, in Belgium. Institutions may subscribe directly with our publisher. Individual members receive our journal and Newsletter, and may join the Society by completing our Membership Form. Lyrica welcomes missives to its Newsletter, articles and book reviews to Ars Lyrica, and invites one and all to its conference presentations and Dialogues. Cordially, Paul-André Bempéchat, President
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