langMUSIC

Some of the aspects we propose for contributions include:

The relation between Natural Language and Opera.
The musical origin of Natural Language (1) (6) (8).
Ethnomusicology.
The use of phonemes as simple musical material in composition (7).
Tonal languages and melody.
Rhythm in natural language and in music.
Gesture in natural language and in music.

1. Darwin, Charles 1871 The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (2 vols.) London. Murray.
2. Ferneyhough, Brian 1995 Collected Writings Ed. By James Boros and Richard Toop. Amsterdam. Harwood Academic Pub.
3. Gell-mann, Murray 1994 The Quark and the Jaguar. Adventures in the Simple and the Complex. New York Freeman and Co.
4. Holland, John Henry 1975 Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems. The MIT Press,1992.
5. Holland, John Henry 1998 Emergence: From Chaos to Order. Addison-Wesley; (also Oxford Press.)
6. Mithen, Steven 2006 The singing Neanderthal. Harvard Univ. Press. Cambridge. MA.
7. Schaeffer, Pierre 1966 Traité des Objects Musicaux. Ed. du Seuil.
8. Wallin, Nils, Björn Merker and Steven Brown 2000 The Origin of Music. The MIT Press. Cambridge. MA.