NATIONAL OPERA ASSOCIATION SCHOLARLY PAPER COMPETITION
Annual Scholarly Paper Competition
Scholarly review is essential to a margin of opera, generally as a basement for prolongation as well as performance.
The National Opera Association is gratified to make known a Twenty-fifth Scholarly Papers Competition, 2011, for superb erudite writings upon operatic subjects.
Eligibility
The foe is open to any meddlesome author. Membership in NOA is not required.
No registration price is required. Deadline for submission: May 30, 2010.
Author notification: after Sep 1, 2010.
Previous winners of this foe might not re-apply, though have been strongly speedy to contention articles for care to The Opera Journal, an NOA publication.
Guidelines
The erudite paper should try an operatic subject, benefaction poignant investigate as well as conclusions, as well as embody an endless bibliography citing primary, delegate and, if applicable, tertiary sources. Authors should follow these guidelines:
- The paper contingency be typewritten, double-spaced, no some-more than 3000 difference in length.
- The paper’s title, a name of a author, address, telephone, as well as email report should be supposing upon a detachable pretension page. The author’s name should not crop up upon successive pages.
- Only a single acquiescence per chairman is accessible as well as contingency be accompanied by a matter confirming that a paper is not underneath copyright by any celebration alternative than a writer as well as that it has not been formerly published.
- Papers formerly presented orally have been authorised as prolonged as they have not or will not be published in any proceedings.
- Papers will be judged quite for poignant advances in investigate as well as conclusions that strew brand new light upon an operatic subject traffic with song drama, a libretto, a story of a genre, etc.
- Topics might be as extended as a margin of show itself, that includes chronological as well as fanciful research of a song as well as words (along lines of stream as well as past vicious speculation as well as interpretation thereof), singing, acting, costuming, stagecraft, theater, etc.
- The jury will cruise a distinctness as well as peculiarity of a writing, decider a acceptability of a paper for announcement in The Opera Journal, as well as will additionally rate writings upon their altogether bearing to be review in an abridged chronicle of no some-more than twenty mins length during a convention’s Scholarly Papers Session.
Awards
The leader will be invited to review her/his paper during a Scholarly Papers Session during a annual gathering in January, 2011, in San Antonio, TX. The Leland Fox Scholarly Paper Stipend of $500 will be awarded to a reader of a winning paper during a annual convention.
The winning paper will be published in The Opera Journal.
Copies of writings not selected, accompanied by a committee’s critiques, will be forwarded to a editor of a biography for probable care for publication.
Submission Procedure
There is no focus price for a competition. Submission might be by mail or email attachment. Be certain to yield finish hit report (mailing address, email address, phone) with all submissions.
Papers will not be returned. Submit a finished focus form (available as a Word document or PDF form) along with a paper, as well as any inquiries about a foe to:
National Opera Association
Robert Hansen, Executive Director
PO Box 60869
Canyon, TX 79016-0869
(phone) 806.651.2857
(fax) 806.651.2958
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