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EVENTS

2013-10-16 -- 2013-10-18

PRINCIPLES OF MUSIC COMPOSING 2013


13th International Music Theory Conference
PRINCIPLES OF MUSIC COMPOSING: The Phenomenon of Rhythm

16–18 October 2013
Vilnius

 

Dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre

 

Conference's website: http://pmc.lmta.lt/EN.html

 


 

CONFERENCE AGENDA

 

 

Wednesday 16 October

 

Headquarters of the Lithuanian Composers’ Union, Mickevičiaus str. 29

 

9.30 Registration of participants


9.45 Opening of the conference

 

FIRST SESSION: Theoretical Aspects of Musical Rhythm
Moderator  Antanas Kučinskas

 

10.00 Lecture–presentation: Rimantas Janeliauskas (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Vilnius, Lithuania). Theory and Practice of the Rhythm Archetypes in the Analysis of Lithuanian Ethnomusic and Compositions by M. K. Čiurlionis and the 20th-century Composers

 

11.00 Justyna Humięcka-Jakubowska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland). Theoretical Conception of Rhythmic Organization and its Practical Manifestation. Some Examples of 20th-century Avant-garde Composers

 

11.30 Damien Veron (University of Montreal, Canada / University of Saint-Etienne, France). "Rhythm inside, rhythm around …": Considering Rhythm as a Fundamental Concept for Improving the Anthropological Analysis of the Question of "musical taste"

 

12.00–12.30 Coffee break

 

12.30 Svetlana Chashchina (Vyatka State University, Kirov, Russia). Theory of Intonation of Rhythm: The Ways of Development

 

13.00 Markos Lekkas (Ionian University, Greece). Running in and out of Time

 

13.30 Pauxy-Gentil Nunes (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil). Partitional Analysis and Rhythmic Partitioning: Mediations between Rhythm and Texture



PIANO LT concert hall, Trakų st. 9 / Kėdainių st. 1

 

19.00  CONCERT: Premieres of works by Prof. Rimantas Janeliauskas, students and graduates of his composition class
Programme: Pieces of Amber by Rimantas Janeliauskas (premiere); new works by Aistė Vaitkevičiūtė, Artūras Mikoliūnas, Jonas Jurkūnas, Mykolas Natalevičius, Ramūnas Motiekaitis, Raimundas Martinkėnas, Mārtiņš Viļums

 

 

Thursday 17 October


Headquarters of the Lithuanian Composers’ Union, Mickevičiaus str. 29

 

SECOND SESSION: Rhythm in Comtemporary Music

Moderator  Mantautas Krukauskas

 

10.00 Katarzyna Bartos (Karol Lipiński Music Academy, Wrocław, Poland). The Two Extremes – Chosen Aspects of Rhythm in Grażyna Bacewicz's and Witold Lutosławski's Music

 

10.30 Mārtiņš Viļums (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Vilnius, Lithuania). Energy and Condition as Forms of Musical Timespace Articulation in Giacinto Scelsi's String Quartet No. 4

 

11.00 Francisco Monteiro (Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal). Jorge Peixinho: Rhythm as Freedom

 

11.30–12.00   Coffee break

 

12.00 Cibele Palopoli (University of São Paulo, Brazil). Comparative Rhythmic Study between Editions of Sequenza I for Solo Flute by Luciano Berio

 

12.30 Miguel Alvarez-Fernandez (University of Oviedo, Spain). Technological Impulses: Expanding the Experience and Definition of Rhythm across the 20th Century through the Use of Electroacoustic Media

 

13.00 Mykolas Natalevičius (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Vilnius, Lithuania). Time Aspects of Drone Music

 

 

PIANO.LT Concert Hall, Trakų str. 9 / Kėdainių str. 1

 

19.00 CONCERT: Unidentified piano cycles by M. K. Čiurlionis

Presented by musicologist prof. D. Kučinskas

 

Performed by:
Rimantas Janeliauskas, piano
Halina Radvilaitė, piano
Aleksandra Žvirblytė, piano

 

 

Friday 18 October

 

Headquarters of the Lithuanian Composers’ Union, Mickevičiaus str. 29

THIRD SESSION: The Relation of Rhythm with Text, Ritual, Drama
Moderator  Mykolas Natalevičius

 

10.00 Yelena Dyachkova (P.I. Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine, Kiev). The Semantics of Rhythmical Musical Elements in the Operatic and Symphonic Works of P. Tchaikovsky 

 

10.30 Stephanie Conner (University of York, UK). From Early Words to Late Music: Generating Musical Material from the Rhythms of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

 

11.00 Gabija Rimkutė (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Vilnius, Lithuania). Rhythm as a Sacred Means of Expression in Alvidas Remesa’s Piano Works

 

11.30–12.00 Coffee break

 

FOURTH SESSION: Ethnical and Historical Aspects of Musical Rhythm
Moderator  Mykolas Natalevičius

 

12.00 Carlos Almada (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil). The Hierarchical and Combinatorial Nature of the Rhythm Structure of Brazilian Choro

 

12.30 Heidi Chan (York University, Toronto, Canada). Exploring Nadai – The Concept of Beat Subdivision in South Indian (Karnatic) Music


13.00 Final discussion. Closing of the conference

 

 

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

 

Ali Naggar (Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt). Innovative Studies of Rhythmic Concepts for Meter to Improve the Performance for Piano Students

 

Kalliopi Stiga (College of Kea, Cyclades, Greece). Rhythm and Greekness in the Cities of Mikis Theodorakis

 


Organised by:

Lithuanian Composers' Union

Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre

 

Contact:

Marius Baranauskas, Conference coordinator

E-mail: pmc@lmta.lt

 

 

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