Wednesday, 6th March 2019
Chamber Hall, 4, 1 Maja Str.
free admission
10.15-10.30 am – OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE
Rector, Prof. Dr hab. Cezary Sanecki
Head of the Department of Music Theory, Dr hab. Ewa Kowalska-Zając, prof. AM10.30-12.00 pm – SESSION 1 | MODALITY AS A LANGUAGE OF MUSIC
Chair – Marta Szoka
Helmut Loos – The Modes of the Classical Vocal Polyphony in the Conflict of German Music Historiography
David Kozel – Modality as a Topos of Musical Narrativity
Michael Deakin – How Do We Know It Is Modal? Appealing to Structure and Temporality12.30-1.30 pm – SESSION 2 | ASPECTS OF MEDIEVAL MODALITY
Chair – Richard Parncutt
Ewa Bielińska-Galas – Between the Archaic and Evolved Modality: The Pentatonic Scale and the Frankish-Roman Hybridization of the 8th Century
Carlos C. Iafelice – „Polyphonic Marchetto”: a Proposal of Modal Analysis Based on Expansion of the „Interruptions” Concept1.30-3.00 pm – break
3.00-4.30 pm – SESSION 3 | REINTERPRETATIONS OF MODALITY IN RENAISSANCE
Chair – Marek Nahajowski
Richard Parncutt – The Prevalence/Consonance of Scale Degrees in Plainchant and the Rising Leading Tone in Renaissance Polyphony
Daniele Sabaino, Marco Mangani – Modal Intertextuality: or How Late-sixteenth-century Composers Re-interpreted and Re-expressed Older Modally-problematic Models
Julieta González-Springer – Modes and Affections in the Pedro Cerone’s Treatise „El Melopeo y el Maestro”4.30-5.00 pm – break
5.00-6.00 pm – SESSION 4 | VISIONS OF MODALITY IN THE AGE OF TONAL MUSIC
Chair – Helmut Loos
Marek Nahajowski – Modality in the Perspective of the 18th-Century Historiography and Music Theory
Małgorzata Grajter – From Authenticity to Stylization: Processing Modality in the Late Works of Ludwig van Beethoven7.00 pm – CONCERT ENSAMBLE ALTA
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Thursday, 7th March 2019
Chamber Hall, 4, 1 Maja Str.
free admission
10.30-11.30 am – SESSION 5 | BETWEEN ASIA AND EUROPE
Chair – Arleta Nawrocka-Wysocka
Bijan Zelli – Al-Farabi and Modal Rhythmic. Exploring Al-Farabi’s Contribution in Establishing the Modal Rhythmic in European and Middle Eastern Middle Ages
Tamar Chkheidze – “Old “and “New” Modality in the Georgian Professional Music11.30-12.00 am – break
12.00-1.30 pm – SESSION 6 | IN SEARCH OF NEW MODALITY
Chair – Ryszard Daniel Golianek
José Oliveira Martins – Polymodality, Scalar Dissonance and Multi-layered Harmony in Twentieth-Century Music
Rafael Barbosa – Whole-tone: Scale, Mode, or Pitch Space? New Insights on Berg’s Early Atonal Music
Teresa Malecka – Modality and its Expressive Function in the Music of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki1.30-3.30 pm – break
3.30-5.00 pm – SESSION 7 | ASPECTS OF MODALITY IN THE 20TH CENTURY MUSIC
Chair – Teresa Malecka
Michal Ščepán – Modality and the Slovak Musical Avant-garde
Robert Michael Weiß – „C is where F should be on the Piano Keyboard…” The Notion of Mode and Scale in George Russell’s Lydian Chromatic Concept compared to Josef Matthias Hauer’s System of the 44 Tropes.
Zbigniew Granat – Problematising Modal Jazz: On Stylistic Ambiguities of Two Tracks from Miles Davis’ album Kind of Blue5.00 pm – FINAL DISCUSSION
7.00 pm – CONCERT ENSEMBLE FILATURA DI MUSICA
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