I find the music in the words. There’s the written story and its shadowy subtexts - the characters, actions, setting, thoughts, decisions. There’s the inherent music of speech: rhythm, accents, inflections, pace, pauses. And then, at the most primal level, beyond the words are the sounds themselves, each vowel and consonant contains emotion. Lastly the dictates of music to convey beauty means finding and bringing out the most beautiful sounds in the words, for the singers to sing and the audiences to hear.