Listed below are the some of the previous years’ presentation topics by way of example.

• Signifyin(g) in Bebop: Charlie Parker’s intertextuality
• Meaning without Words: A semiological analysis of György Ligeti’s Aventures
• Roots of dub: Musical borrowing in dub music
• A phonetic analysis of Bobby McFerrin’s Invocation
• Musical Exoticism in Benjamin Britten’s Prince of the Pagodas
• A poetic analysis of E J Moeran’s To Daffodils
• Signifyin(g) and Duke Ellington
• A structural and formal analysis of Philip Glass’s Knee Play 5 (Einstein on the Beach)
• Semiology and the dehumanised voice in Radiohead’s Fitter, Happier
• A poetic analysis of The Doors’ A Little Game
• Music and Meaning in Purcell’s The Cares of Lovers
• The influence of classical music on rock, 1960-1980
• What’s Opera, Doc?: Quotation in early cartoon music
• Musical Borrowing in Disco
• A semiological analysis of Karl Jenkins’ Adiemus