Will you please post the following notice on the mlist? Many thanks.
Subject line: Scholarly Operatic Competition 2002
John Harrison
National Opera Association
Jnoajoin@aol.com
Dear Reader:
Please notice that this year's competition by the National Opera
Association offers a travel stipend to a winner and requires no entrance fee.
If it does not rouse your interest, could you please give it to a colleague
or doctoral student?
Thank you, John Harrison, Chair, Scholarly Papers Committee
NOA's Eighteenth Annual Scholarly Paper Competition
The scholarly paper for the National Opera Association competition should
explore an operatic subject, present significant research and conclusions,
and include a bibliography citing at least ten different sources. The paper
should be typewritten, double-spaced, and no more than three thousand words
in length. The title of the paper and the name of the author should be given
on a detachable title page. The author's name must not appear on subsequent
pages.
The submission (one paper per person) must be accompanied by a statement
that the paper is not under copyright by any party other than the author and
that it has not been previously published. A paper that has been presented
orally is eligible as long as it has not been printed in any proceedings.
Authors wishing a paper returned should included a stamped,
self-addressed envelope with each submission. Submit a paper (only one per
person) and any inquiries about the competition to Dr. Robert Hansen,
National Opera Association, PO Box 60869, Canyon, TX 79016-0869.
email--rhansen@mail.wtamu.edu
Submission may be by U.S. mail or email attachment.
Awards: The winning author or authors will be invited to read each paper
at the annual convention during January, 2003, at Washington, DC. The Leland
Fox Scholarly Travel Stipend of $500 will be awarded to the reader of a
winning paper at the annual convention. The paper or papers also will be
published in "The Opera Journal." Copies of the best papers not selected,
accompanied by the committee's critiques, will be forwarded to the editor of
the journal for possible consideration for publication.
Deadline for the submission of scholarly papers: June 1, 2002. Author
notification: after September 1, 2002.
Guidelines
The judges look particularly for significant research and conclusions
that shed new light on an operatic topic dealing with music drama, the
libretto, the history of the genre, etc. The topics are as wide as opera
which includes music, singing, acting, costuming, stagecraft, theater, etc.
The judges also consider the clarity and quality of the writing. Any paper
should comply with the guidelines like double-spacing, a length of three
thousand words or less, documentation, appropriate scholarly sources, etc.
They make a judgment about the acceptability of the paper for publication
in "The Opera Journal." They also rate the paper on its overall suitability
to be read "aloud" in a shortened version of no more than twenty minutes at
the NOA convention.
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