Principles of Music Composing. Orchestra as a Phenomenon
MASTERCLASS OF ORCHESTRATION
April 20
Composers’ Union House, Mickevičiaus 29
Seminar I
10.00 – 13.00
Prof. Ertugrul Sevsay (University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, Austria)
Themes:
- Technical basics of instrumentation and orchestration
- Differences between instrumentation and orchestration
- Influence of the Viennese Classics on the other orchestration schools and styles
- Importance of sustained sound in orchestration
- Tutti (types, orchestration techniques, challenges)
- Dynamic balances in the orchestra
April 21
Composers’ Union House, Mickevičiaus 29
Seminar II
10.00 – 13.00
Prof. Ertugrul Sevsay (University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, Austria)
Themes:
- How to write multiple stops for the string instruments
- Problems in scoring for wind instruments
- Analysis of the 1st. movement of Mozart’s Symphony No.41 in C Major (Jupiter)
9th INTERNATIONAL MUSIC THEORY CONFERENCE
April 22
Composers’ Union House, Mickevičiaus 29
9.40 Registration of participants
10.00 Opening
10.15 First session: “Orchestral conceptions. Historical signs in the evolution of orchestra”
Pavel Puscas (Academy of Music, Cluj, Romania)
Defining Orchestra in the 2nd half of XX Century [the case of Chamber Symphony]
Svein Hundsnes (University of Stavanger, Norway)
Tchaikovsky’s Orchestral Style
Igor Vorobyev (St. Petersburg Conservatory, Russia)
The Symphonic Anti-utopia as a Conscious Necessity (A Few Traits of the Soviet Symphonic Style of the 1920s and Early 1930s, on the Example of Gavriil Popov’s First Symphony)
12.00-12.30 Break
Anton Rovner (Moscow conservatory, Russia)
The Orchestral Musical Style of Alexander Scriabin as Demonstrated by his Unfinished ‘Prefatory Action’
Violeta Tumasonienė (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre)
The Importance of an Orchestra in Modern Lithuanian Religious Music on Biblical Motifs
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15.30 Round table discussion
Composers’ Union House, Mickevičiaus 29
April 23
Composers’ Union House, Mickevičiaus 29
10.00 Second session: “Orchestra as a cultural tradition. Timbre possibilities of orchestra“
Ertugrul Sevsay (University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, Austria)
The Factors Defining the Orchestral Color
Mantautas Krukauskas (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre)
Electronic instruments and computer technologies in contemporary orchestra
Marius Baranauskas (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre)
Principles of Structural Organisation of Gamelan Orchestra as an Alternative to Orchestra in European Culture
11.30-12.00 Break
Kalliopi Stiga & Georges Karagiannis (University of Athens, Greece)
Eastern and Western Music meeting the Greek orchestra under the sound of ‘bouzouki’
Csilla Petho-Vernet (Paris IV-Sorbonne University, France)
Constancy and variability within 19th century Hungarian Gypsy orchestras: instruments, sounds and timbres
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16.00
M.K.Čiurlionis’ House, Savičiaus 11
Darius Kučinskas (Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania)
Čiurlionis’s orchestra
Rimantas Janeliauskas (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre)
M.K.Čiurlionis' Unrecognized Cycle. Sonata-form – Symphonic Potentials of the Cycle
M.K.Čiurlionis Unrecognized cycle (first performance)
Halina Radvilaitė (piano)
April 24
Composers’ Union House, Mickevičiaus 29
10.00 Third session: “Principles of orchestral thinking in contemporary music“
Svetlana Barkauskas (Lithuania)
Interaction of Orchestral Groups in Vytautas Barkauskas‘ Symphonic Music
Elvio Cipolone (University of Strasbourg, France)
Orchestrating nature
Linas Balčiūnas (Vilnius Jesuit Gymnasium, Lithuania)
Orchestral works of Lithuanian composers in 21st c.
11.30-12.00 Break
Gaël Navard (Nice Sophia Antipolis University, France)
Composing Open Forms for Orchestra : An Analysis of Morton Feldman’s Intersection #1 and Henri Pousseur’s Les fouilles de Jeruzona
Antanas Kučinskas (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre)
New Technology Orchestras: Between Innovations and Simulations
13.00 Discussions. Closing of the conference
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Posters:
Rimantas Janeliauskas (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre)
Compositional (harmonic, rhythmic, orchestral) Aspects of Osvaldas Balakauskas' Symphony No.2
Olga Sakhapova (Nizhnij Novgorod Conservatory, Russia)
Sounding space in Debussy’s Orchestra
