Music and Visual Culture: Score, Stage & Screen

Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre In collaboration with the RIdIM (Répertoire International d’Iconographie Musicale) The biennial Baltic musicological conference

Music and Visual Culture: Score, Stage & Screen
October 6–8, 2022, Vilnius, LITHUANIA

The theme of the conference – “Music and Visual Culture: Score, Stage & Screen” – is aimed to advance interdisciplinary investigations in and between music and visual arts. We intend to tackle both new and longstanding debates around these topics and to encompass a wide range of subjects relating to how the intersections between music and visual arts are evoked and reimagined in score, on stage and screen. We are interested in contributions that approach the issues from diverse perspectives by exploring the historical and theoretical connections between these areas. The program committee encourages submissions within the following areas, although other topics are welcome: •	Music in the Expanded Field: New Approaches to Interdisciplinarity •	Visualizing Music and Identity on Stage and Screen •	Scoring Music: From Augenmusik to Musical Graphics •	Iconography of Musical Instruments in Sociocultural Context •	Sound & Sight of Place and Space •	Music, Visual Culture and Gender Constructions •	Seeing Unseeable: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives •	Music Performance in Traditional and New Media •	Composing and Listening to Audio/visual

Hybrid conference. The conference language is English.

Keynote speakers: Dr. TATJANA MARKOVIC, Austrian Academy of Sciences, IMS Study Group “Music and Cultural Studies” Prof. Dr. ANTONIO BALDASSARRE, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, RIdIM Dr. ZDRAVKO BLAŽEKOVIC, Research Center for Music Iconography, CUNY Graduate Center, ICTM Study Group on Iconography of the Performing Arts

Selected papers of the conference will be published in the international peer-reviewed scientific journal ‘Lithuanian Musicology’ indexed in SCOPUS, ERIH+, EBSCO, etc.

Organizers
Academic committee: Antonio Baldassarre, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, RIdIM (Répertoire International d’Iconographie Musicale) Zdravko Blažekovic, Research Center for Music Iconography, CUNY Graduate Center, ICTM Study Group on Iconography of the Performing Arts Tatjana Markovic, Austrian Academy of Sciences, IMS Study Group “Music and Cultural Studies” Lina Navickaitė-Martinelli, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre Rima Povilionienė, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre Rūta Stanevičiūtė, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre

Local arrangements committee: Vita Česnulevičiūtė, Ingrida Jasonienė, Lina Navickaitė-Martinelli, Rima Povilionienė, Rūta Stanevičiūtė

Program, abstracts
The conference will be broadcasted online via youtube channel. You are welcome to join and watch the conference: 1 day, 6 October - https://youtu.be/oZg3_Lw2AsU 2 day, 7 October - https://youtu.be/4aGI0hWhgMw 3 day, 8 October - https://youtu.be/KW789AyF1ds

Below you may find the schedule for 3-day conference and a pre-conference discussion on 5 October:

Lithuanian Time Zone | GMT+3

Vilnius 9 AM (London 7 AM | New York 2 AM)

5 October 2022

PRE-CONFERENCE DAY

18.00. Discussion-Round Table “Music and Musicology in the Time of Historical Turns”. Participants: Antonio Baldassarre, Zdravko Blažeković, Beata Bolesławska-Lewandowska, Jānis Kudiņš, Tatjana Marković, Rūta Stanevičiūtė, Nana Sharikadze

6 October 2022

9.15–9.30. CONFERENCE OPENING

9.30–10.30. 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

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

11.30–12.30. KEYNOTE LECTURE 2

Antonio Baldassarre. Staging the Nation: The 19th-century Swiss Federal Singing Festivals

SESSION 6

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 5

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

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?

11.30–12.30. 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

Conference abstracts, schedule & other info are available at: http://musvis2022.lmta.lt/ Contact e-mail: Prof. dr. Rima Povilionienė, rima.povilioniene@lmta.lt