With assistance from the University of Iowa School of Music, Matthew Arndt presented a poster on musical sentences at the First Biennial Conference on Expression, Music, and Language, held at the University of Connecticut August 20–22, 2022.

This research is part of his book on musical poetry in progress, Vibrations Are Verbations. Below is an attempt at symbolizing the shades of meaning in different parts of musical sentences, clauses, and phrases. These shades are determined by the interplay of polarity, as theorized by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in his Theory of Color.