Translating Music #1 | The Idea of a Musical Work and Its Transformations
Schedule
Thu, 26 Mar, 2026 at 09:00 am to Fri, 27 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Akademia Muzyczna im. Grażyny i Kiejstuta Bacewiczów w Łodzi | Lodz, LD
26th–27th March 2026
The Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music
32 Gdańska Street, Łódź, Poland
The conference is addressed to musicologists, music theorists, musicians involved in the historically informed performance of early music, as well as scholars conducting interdisciplinary research, especially in literature.
Scope of the conference's topics:
🟩Arrangements, transcriptions, reductions and orchestrations in Western Classical music: music-analytical and historical perspectives;
🟩The mutual influence of composing and arranging music;
🟩Social aspects of arranging and translating music;
🟩From the score to the sound: musical performance as a reproductive, creative and transformative act;
🟩Cover versions and reinterpretations in popular music;
🟩Word-sound mediations in the context of translating music (singable translations, intabulations, contrafacta, etc.);
🟩Interdisciplinary negotiations between musicology and Translation Studies – methodological inquiries.
Details can be found here ⬇️⬇️⬇️
https://www.amuz.lodz.pl/index.php/pl/wydarzenia/translating-music-1-pl
Where is it happening?
Akademia Muzyczna im. Grażyny i Kiejstuta Bacewiczów w Łodzi, ulica Gdańska 32, 90-716 Łódź, Polska, Lodz, PolandEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
















