Program/Schedule


The online program/schedule may be accessed at digital publishing platform ISSUU, or scroll down this page.

The conference was broadcasted online via a youtube channel. For video record please visit the following links:

1 day, 6 October, 2022 – https://youtu.be/hfytHVTvuLg

2 day, 7 October, 2022 – https://youtu.be/WeEGMbJGywQ 

3 day, 8 October, 2022 – https://youtu.be/lx88EPnRS5U

The conference was accompanied by 2 concerts dedicated to the centenary of ISCM (International Society for Contemporary Music). The concerts on 7 and 8 October presented contemporary music by Lithuanian and Japanese composers including traditional Japanese instruments shakuhachi and koto. See Concert booklet here

CONFRERENCE PROGRAM

5 October 2022 PRE-CONFERENCE EVENTS (no online broadcast)

14.00. Auditorium 303 at the 2nd Building, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Vilniaus g. 6-2, Vilnius
WORKSHOP with Zdravko Blažeković
Introduction to RILM and Writing Abstracts
18.00. Juozas Karosas Chamber Hall, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Gedimino pr. 42, Vilnius

PRE-CONFERENCE MEETING
Discussion-Round Table “Music and Musicology in the Time of Historical Turns”

Antonio Baldassarre Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Zdravko Blažeković City University of New York, The Graduate Center
Beata BolesławskaLewandowska Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Jānis Kudiņš Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music
Tatjana Marković Austrian Academy of Sciences, ACDH – Department of Musicology
Rūta Stanevičiūtė Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
Nana Sharikadze V. Saradjishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire

6 October 2022 (video record https://youtu.be/hfytHVTvuLg)

9.15. CONFERENCE OPENING
9.30. KEYNOTE LECTURE 1
Zdravko Blažeković. Theater Curtains and Their Decorations: Their Role in Starting a Performance
SESSION 1
11:00 Daniela Castaldo. The Look of the Early Modern European Travelers on the West African Music (17th and 18th Centuries)
11:30 Kamilė Rupeikaitė. Musical Instruments in Psalm 150: Problems of Their Iconography in Jewish Tradition
12:00 Beata Baublinskienė. Some Features of Gregorian Manuscripts from Vilnius
SESSION 2
14:00 Sascia Pellegrini. Sound Unheard: the Visual Phantasmata
14:30 Rebecca Pericleous. Childhood, Community and Memory: Benjamin Britten’s Moonrise Kingdom
15:00 Lauma Mellēna-Bartkeviča.Baņuta Resurrected: From National Romanticism to Contemporary Performativity
15:30 Leon Stefanija. Notes on Visuality in Slovenian Music: Structural Archetypes, Universals, and Imageries in Music
SESSION 3
16:30 Ketevan Chitadze. The Language of Graphic Symbols in Mikheil Shugliashvili’s Music
17:00 Olena Berehova. Instrumental Theater as a New Concept of Musical Communication in Ukrainian Women Composers’ Creativity
17:30 Heli Reimann. Making Visuals Talk: The Case of Tallinn ’67 Jazz Festival & documentary screening

7 October 2022 (video record https://youtu.be/WeEGMbJGywQ)

SESSION 4
9:30 Ayşegül Begüm Kuntman. Music and Color in Cinema: A Possible Collaboration
10:00 Kaarina Kilpiö. Music making and music professionals in Finnish short films, 1930s to 1950s
10:30 Francesco Finocchiaro. Silent Film Music between Interdisciplinarity and Multidisciplinarity
 
11.30. KEYNOTE LECTURE 2
Antonio Baldassarre. Staging the Nation: The 19th-century Swiss Federal Singing Festivals
 
SESSION 5
14:00 Lina Navickaitė-Martinelli. Capturing the ‘Romantic Hero’: Musicians’ Promotion and Gestural Topoi
14:30 Samuel Murray. Layers of Virtuosity: Guitar Performance in Walter Hill’s Crossroads (1986)
15:00 Neringa Valuntonytė. Creating an Academic Musician’s Stage Persona: a Visual Representation of the Performer’s Identity
 
SESSION 6
16:00 Bud Roach. Historical Performance Practice and the Rhetorical Application of Digital Media
16:30 Rúben Carvalho. The Affect of the Details: The Effects of Soundtracks’ Modified Intonation on Audience’s Emotional Reaction to Films
17:00 George Kennaway. Art-Words-Music Relationships in Settings of Dante Rossetti’s The Blessed Damozel: How Analytically Useful is Ekphrasis?
17:30 Olha Lihus. The Phenomenon of Musical Ekphrasis in Lesia Dychko’s Piano Frescoes The Châteaux of the Loire Valley and The Bell of Aragon

8 October 2022 (video record https://youtu.be/lx88EPnRS5U)

STUDY SESSION
Lithuanian History on Opera Stage: Ideologies and Representation
9:30 Rūta Stanevičiūtė. Lithuanian Historical Narrative in Opera: a Transnational Perspective
10:00 Helmutas Šabasevičius. Illustration vs Interpretation. Strategies of Representing Lithuania on the Opera Stage
10:30 Jūratė Katinaitė. Lithuanian Opera Under Soviet Rule: Were There Any Success Stories?
 
11:30 KEYNOTE LECTURE 3
Tatjana Marković. From Historical Verisimilitude via Avant-Garde Fairytale to Digital Archeology: Concepts and Technologies of Opera Set Design
 
SESSION 7
14:00 Agnė Mažulienė. Musical Time in the Score: Obscurity or Obviousness?
14:30 Yusuke Ishii. The Aspect of Timbre in the Graphic Notation of Vytautas Bacevičius Graphique, Op. 68 (1964) for Orchestra
15:00 Baiba Jaunslaviete. Manifestations of a Composerʼs Stylistic Individuality through Multimedia Compositions: The Case of Gundega Šmite
15:30 John Dante Prevedini. Augenmusik as a Digital-Age Art Form