Session schedules

Presentation schedule and titles for the ICMS 16: Music as a Meaningful Art congress 2 to 6 June 2026

Published 14.4.2026 | Updated 24.4.2026

Sessions A

13:00 – 13:30

A1 (Theme 1: Semiotic theory, Concert hall): Dániel Nagy: The entanglement of meaning and meaninglessness in music: Vladimir Karbusický’s theory of mimesis versus musical irony.
A5 (Theme 9: Topics I, Small hall): Izabela Jutrzenka-Trzebiatowska The tragic waltz: On the way to discovering hidden meaning in Waltz in E-flat minor by Stanisław Moniuszko
A9 (Theme 16: Semiotic translation, Chamber music hall) Sebastián Nabón Hernández: The Semiotics of Musical Translation: A Case Study of James Tenney’s Interpretation of Jaybird Coleman’s Blues
A13 (Theme 23. Culture, cultural experience, and cultural identity, R-510) Cleisson Melo: Musical Signification as Cultural Experience

13:30 – 14:00

A2 (Theme 1: Semiotic theory, Concert Hall) Ben Curry: Millikan’s Post-Peircean Sign System and Music Semiotics
A6 (Theme 9: Topics I, Small Hall) Janne Kivistö: The military topics of Sibelius and the Finnish narratives of history at the turn of the 20th century
A10 (Theme 16: Semiotic translation, Chamber Music Hall) Valentín Benavides: Paisajes del placer y de la culpa(2003) by José María Sánchez-Verdú: A Sonic Palimpsest between Poliphilo and Mahler
A14 (Theme 23: Culture, cultural experience, and cultural identity, R-510) Kinga Krzymowska-Szacoń: When the Signs Become Unmoored: Folklore in Semantic Strategies of Selected 20th-Century Polish Émigré Composers

14:00 – 14:30

A3 (Theme 1: Semiotic theory, Concert hall) Matthias Vogel & Oliver Schütze: What Music Maps to: Teleosemantics and the Role of Re-enactment in Musical Practices
A7 (Theme 9: Topics I, Small hall) David Heinsen: The Pasodoble Topic and Cubist Aesthetics in Rosa García Ascot’s Preludio (1938)
A11 (Theme 16: Semiotic translation, Chamber music hall) Małgorzata Grajter: The Topical World of João Domingos Bomtempo’s Piano Sonatas: Concordance and Sequence
A15 (Theme 23: Culture, cultural experience, and cultural identity, R-510) Joanna Szymańska: The Myth of America and mythicization in Ch. E. Ives’Holidays Symphony

14:30 – 15:00

A4 (Theme: 1: Semiotic theory, Concert hall) Karl Joosep Pihel: Schema and diagram in music: from Kant through Peirce to Deleuze
A8 (Theme 9: Topics I, Small hall) Carlos Villar-Taboada: From Epinicio(1979) to Églogas(1982): Pastoral Meanings in Rodolfo Halffter’s Late ’Naked Music)
A12 (Theme 16: Semiotic translation, Chamber music hall), Agnieszka Kuczyńska: Music: The Beginning of All Things”: Intersemiotic Translation in the Work of Zbigniew Makowski
A16 (Theme 23: Culture, cultural experience, and cultural identity, R-510) Anna Granat-Janki: Semiotics in the Study of Cultural Identity of Polish émigré composer Alexander Tansman

Sessions B

09:00-09:30

B17 (Theme 2: Existential semiotics, analysis, and performance, Concert hall) Galateia Daskalaki: Existential Potentials in Late Brahms: Interfaces and Convergences between Existential Semiotics, Autoethnography, and Performance
B21 (Theme 10: Topics II, Small hall) Frangel López Ceseña A passacaglia for an angel
B25 (Theme 17: Intermediality and intertextuality I: cinema, television and radio)
Uri Golomb: From intellectual abstraction to continuous narrative: On three approaches to the presentation and performance of Bach’s Die Kunst der Fuge
Chamber music hall
B29 (Theme 24: Glocality: local-global, R-510) Tarcisio Gomes Filho: Potiguar Identity and Musical Nationalism in the Prelúdios Potiguares by Oriano de Almeida

09:30-10:00

B18 (Theme 2: Existential semiotics, analysis, and performance, Concert hall): Grisell Macdonel: Improvisation in Romantic Virtuosity as Moi and Soi, Power and Temporality in the Case of the Italian Double bass Virtuoso Performer-composer Giovanni Bottesini (1821–1889)
B22 (Theme 10: Topics II, Small hall)
Marie Antunes Serra: ‘Figures’ of the sacred in Arvo Pärt’s and John Tavener’s vocal music
B26 (Theme 17: Intermediality and intertextuality I: cinema, television and radio, Chamber music hall)
Lóránt Péteri: Mahler’s First Symphony and István Szabó’s Father: A Case of Musico-Cinematic Intertextuality
B30 (Theme 24: Glocality: local – global, R-510)
Magdalena Chmiel: Recontextualizing the Hardanger Fiddle: Local Tradition, National Identity, and Global Media

10:00-10:30

B19 (Theme 2: Existential semiotics, analysis, and performance)
Ricardo de Castro Monteiro: Performative tradition of Reisado as a laboratory for investigating how musical meaning persists under conditions of historical and socio-economic transformation
Concert hall
B23 (Theme 10: Topics II, Small hall)
Laine Gruver: Dual Topical Signification in Game of Thrones Leitmotifs
B27 (Theme 17: Intermediality and intertextuality I: cinema, television and radio, Chamber music hall)
Helder Gonçalves: Music as a Mediating Structures of Meaning in Sandro Aguilar’s Cinema of Narrative Opacity: Marco Franco’s Score for First Person Plural
B31 (Theme 24: Glocality: local – global, R-510)
Peter Salvucci: Towards a Greimassian Semantic Hierarchy of Musical Signification: A Comparative Study in European Tonal and Ottoman Makam Music

10:30-11:00

B20 (Theme 2: Existential semiotics, analysis, and performance) Panu Heimonen: Towards a normative definition of the Mozartian concerto form: An existential semiotic reconstruction of the concepts of space and semantic change
Concert hall
B24 (Theme 10: Topics II) Olga Sánchez-Kisielewska: Style as Telos? Interactions Between Topics and Form in Two Expositions by Boccherini
Small hall
B28 (Theme 17: Intermediality and intertextuality I: cinema, television and radio)
Ewa Czachorowska-Zygor: Beethoven and his “Symphony No. 5 in C minor” in Andrzej Wajda’s “The Conductor”: On the meanings and hidden relations in the film’s imagery and music
Chamber music hall
B32 (Theme 24: Glocality: local-global)
Rahilya Geybullayeva: From Local Epic to Global Signification: The Azerbaijani Dastan “Aşıq Qərib” in the Context of Authorship and Cross-Cultural Adaptation
R-510

Sessions C

18:00-18:30

C33 (Theme 3: Embodied mind and meaning I, Concert hall) Violetta Kostka: Cognitive Science and Meaning of Music
C37 (Theme 11: Sound, pitch, texture, structure, and tonality, Small hall) Ludovic Teysseire: Modality as Process: Sémiogenèse and the Emergence of Pitch Coherence
C41 (Theme 18: **Intermediality and intertextuality II: literature, text, gesture, notation, performance)
Paola Livorsi & Jin Hyun Kim: From Linguistic to Musical Meaning: A Performative Transformation of Arendt’s Philosophical Fragments
Chamber music hall
C44 (Theme 25: Ecology, soundscapes, and environments, R-510)
Ana Judite de Oliveira Medeiros: Scenes and meanings of Northeast Brazil in Bachiana nº 4 by Heitor Villa-Lobos

18:30-19:00

C34 (Theme 3: Embodied mind and meaning I, Concert hall) Piotr Podlipiniak & Mihailo Antović: The evolutionary foundations of cognitive mechanisms underlying the multilevel grounding model of musical meaning
C38 (Theme 11: Sound, pitch, texture, structure, and tonality, Small hall) Manuel Salas: Meaning and Relation: Micropolyphony and the Emergent Ontology of Sound Masses
C45 (Theme 25: Ecology, soundscapes, and environments, R-510) Jūratė Landsbergytė: Limitless soundscapes: new lines of intermediality in Lithuanian music

19:00-19:30

C35 (Theme 3: Embodied mind and meaning I, Concert hall) Christian Vassilev: Beyond Virtuality: Musical Identification and the Limits of Persona-Theory
C39 (Theme 11: Sound, pitch, texture, structure, and tonality, Small hall)
Yannis Rammos: A Tonal Allegory in the Well-Tempered Clavier
C42 (Theme 18: **Intermediality and intertextuality II: literature, text, gesture, notation, performance, Chamber music hall) Július Fujak: The Intermedial Quality of Milan Adamčiak’s Graphic Scores and the Spectacular Existentiality of his conceptual performances
C46 (Theme 25: Ecology, soundscapes, and environments, R-510)
Leonardo Mezzalira: Ecological meanings in new music. Hypotheses about a new semiotic-musical framework

19:30-20:00

C36 (Theme 3: Embodied mind and meaning I, Concert hall) Jin Hyun Kim: Beyond Language: Understanding the Musical Form of Enactment Through a Participatory Mode of Re-enactment
C40 (Theme 11: Sound, pitch, texture, structure, and tonality, Small hall) Gianluca Dai Prà: Extending Tonal Functions: Is It Possible to Have Functional Meanings Outside Tonality?
C43 (Theme 18: **Intermediality and intertextuality II: literature, text, gesture, notation, performance, Chamber Music Hall) Małgorzata Gamrat: Music, ideas and meaning: music in literature as a meaningful art and a communicative tool
C47 (Theme 25: Ecology, soundscapes, and environments, R-510)
Oleksandra Nenko & Alejandro Montes de Oca: Making Sense of Sonic Engagements with the City

Sessions D

09:00-09:30

D48 (Theme 4: Embodied mind and meaning II, Concert hall) Jeremy Wong: Collaborative Improvisation as Musical Sense-Making: Enacting Music-Theoretical Understanding
D52 (Theme 12: Narratives and rhetorics, Small hall)
Martin Čurda: A Theory of Rhetorical Functions for Eighteenth-Century Instrumental Music: Rethinking Caplin’s Formal Functions in Rhetorical Terms
D55 (Theme 5: Education, Chamber music hall)
Asja Zakhareva: E-P-IC topical analysis pilot course: failed hopes, measured successes, and lessons learned internationally
D59 (Theme 19: Intermediality and intertextuality III: theatre, literature, visual arts and architecture, R-510) Rūta Brūzgienė: The Musicality of M. K. Čiurlionis’s Pictorial Sonatas and Literary “Žodžio kūryba” [The Creation of the Word]

09:30-10:00

D49 (Theme 4: Embodied mind and meaning II, Concert hall)
Matteo Catalano: Retrospective Musical Syntax: On How Later Events Shape Earlier Meaning
D53 (Theme 12: Narrative and rhetorics, Small hall)
Giulia Roveta: Comic rhetoric and theatrical references in Benedetto Marcello’s Sonatas
D56 (Theme 5: Education, Chamber music hall)
Christina Tsigka: Musical representations as a means for musical understanding by violin students at a Greek music school: a pilot semiotic and educational research
D60 (Theme 19: Intermediality and intertextuality III: theatre, literature, visual arts and architecture, R-510) Elisa Bracher, Rodrigo Felicissimo & Mário Videira: Poems, Photographs, Paintings, and Graphics as Matrices for Musical Themes on South Americans Landscapes: The Aesthetics of Beauty Towards Musical Semiotics

10:00-10:30

D50 (Theme 4: Embodied mind and meaning II, Concert hall)
Marta Goluch: Emotions and Musical Meanings Through the Lens of Cognitive Theories: The Case of The Eyes of That Little One (lyrics by A. Osiecka, music by Z. Konieczny)
D54 (Theme 12: Narrative and rhetorics, Small hall)
Ilona Kovács: The Narrative of Exoticism in Alexander Glazunov’s Raymonda: Musical Meaning, Stereotype, and Cultural Signification
D57 (Theme 5: Education, Chamber music hall)
Michael Baker: Inciting Interdisciplinary Insights with The Glass Bead Game
D61 (Theme 19: Intermediality and intertextuality III: theatre, literature, visual arts and architecture)
Gerard Guerra López: Crumbling Time, Building Space: Transcending Disciplinary Boundaries in Musical Signification

10:30-11:00

D51 (Theme 4: Embodied mind and meaning II, Concert hall) Amanda Ferraresi & Felipe Botelho: Villa-Lobos on Stage: Musical Meaning and Ritual Performance in Macumba Antropófaga
D67 (Theme 13: Opera, Small hall) Zsuzsanna Könyves-Tóth: Péter Eötvös’s Transformation of the Leitmotiv Tradition in his Operatic Practice
D58 (Theme 5: Education, Chamber music hall) László Stachó: Rethinking Meaning and Attention in Musical Performance
D62 (Theme 19: Intermediality and intertextuality III: theatre, literature, visual arts and architecture, R-510) Angelika Chȩć: Music in the Service of Court Ceremonial: Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel’s Serenata “Seid willkommen, schöne Stunden” as an Example of Symbolic Communication

Sessions E

13:30-14:00

E63 (Theme 6: **Language and music, Concert hall) Eveliina Sumelius-Lindblom & Matti Huttunen: Music meets the limits of language: showing as a method of music research
E68 (Theme 13: Opera, Small hall) Mikko Metsälampi: Listening to Wagner at high speed: a glimpse into deeper structures and their associative meanings in Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk
E72 (Theme 26: Politics, nationalism, and activism, Chamber music hall) Kara Koskinen: Victory Day Music as a Messenger of Russian Patriotism
E77 (Theme 20: Intertextuality IV: music, R-510) Sam Reenan: Coleridge-Taylor’s Classicized Spiritual Uptake

14:00-14:30

E69 (Theme 13: Opera, Small hall) Adrian Alvarez Gálvez: Between War and Desolation: Musical Sign-Metaphors of Violence and Its Internalization in Siempre es de noche ahora (2022)
E73 (Theme 26: Politics, nationalism, and activism, Chamber music hall)
Tarcisio Gomes Filho: Childhood Imagination and Nationalism in the Educational Piano Works of Heitor Villa-Lobos
E78 (Theme 20: Intertextuality IV: music, R-510)
Jeremy Grall: Structural Versus Rhetorical Musical Borrowing in “My Reverie” and “The Lamp is Low”

14:30-15:00

E64 (Theme 6: **Language and music, Concert hall) Susanne Kogler: Exploring Musical Signs and Meaning: Understanding New Music with Works by Clemens Gadenstätter
E70 (Theme 13: Opera, Small hall) Harai Golomb: Signifying the Contrast Between Yes And No Through Music: How Mozart Overcame a Semiotic Challenge and How Gardiner Interpreted It
E74 (Theme 26: Politics, nationalism, and activism, Chamber music hall) Kalliopi Stigka: The phenomenon Mikis Theodorakis’. Music- Poetry- Politics: When the ‘Voice of Greece’ becomes a ‘Diachronic Ecumenical Hymn to Life’!
E79 (Theme 20: Intertextualityt IV: music, R-510) Diana Cardoş: The Myth of Oedipus in Enescu’s First Piano Sonata

15:00-15:30

E65 (Theme 6: **Language and music, Concert hall)
Sylvain Breteche: Prosodic Intricacies: Musicalness, Vocalness, Gesturalness
E71 (Theme 13: Opera, Small hall)
Paulius Prasauskas: Voice in Opera: Negotiating Embodiment and Representation in Musical Meaning
E75 (Theme 26: Politics, nationalism, and activism, Ban
Chamber music hall) Alfonso Meave: Corridos Tumbados: A Mexican Musical Genre Circumscribed by Excesses, Activism, and Government
E80 (Theme 20: Intertextuality IV: music, R-510)
Oana Andreica: Archaic Layers under a Modern Veil: Mihai Moldovan’s Compositional Legacy

15:30-16:00

E66 (Theme 6: **Language and music, Concert hall)
Ulla Pohjannoro & Juha Ojala: Metaphors in feedback speech of music teachers
E86 (Theme 14: Vocal music, Small hall) Małgorzata Janicka-Słysz: Searching for (new) meanings. On Krzysztof Penderecki’s St Luke Passion (1966): Six decades after the work’s creation
E76 (Theme 26: Politics, nationalism, and activism, Chamber music hall)
Andrzej Gładysz: Can a hymn be a history lesson? Reflections based on the Polish example
E81 (Theme 20: Intertextuality IV: music, R-510) Rimantas Astrauskas: Communicative Functions of Music Instruments and Sound Tools Traced in Archaelogical Materials Found in Lithuanian Territory and Early Historical Writings

Sessions F

9:00-9:30

F82 (Theme 7: *Composition, interpretation and performance I, Concert hall)
Simone Gorete Machado: The public and the performance: the meaning of silence
F87 (Theme 14: Vocal music, Small hall) Uri Golomb: “The composer and pianist know better”: Musical autonomy and text-music interaction in the Lieder of Stella Lerner
F91 (Theme 21: *Hybridity, Chamber music hall) Robert Fleitz: Never Look Bach!: Musical hybridity as a tool to approaching the legacy of Glenn Gould in works by Jasna Veličković and James Layton
F95 (Theme 27: °Artificial intelligence, R-510) Paulo C. Chagas: Spectral Semiotics Revisited: Meaning, Modulation, and the Ontology of Sound in the Age of AI

9:30-10:00

F83 (Theme 7: *Composition, interpretation and performance I, Concert hall) Myra Pranajaya: Unwind and Rewind: Exploring Poulenc’s Solo Piano Works
F88 (Theme 14: Vocal music, Small hall) Gustavo Caum & Diósnio Machado Neto: Gesture as Temporal Morphology in José Maurício’s Missa Pastoril: Toward an Operational Phenomenological Criterion
F92 (Theme 21: *Hybridity, Chamber music hall) Kostas Chardas: Creating a hybrid performance space: The emergence of ‘Artistic Popular Song’ by Mikis Theodorakis and Manos Hadjidakis in the Greece of the 1950s and 1960s
F96 (Theme 27. °Artificial intelligence, R-510)
Marcin Strzelecki: Created versus Generated Music: A Meaningful Difference

10:00-10:30

F84 (Theme 7: *Composition, interpretation and performance I, Concert hall) Elena Rovenko: From Musical Sign to Phenomenological Meaning: Expression and Perceptual Synthesis in Vincent d’Indy’s Musical Thought
F89 (Theme 14: Vocal music, Small hall)
Michał Jędrzejski: Pseudo-Choral: The Musical Meaning of the Style Based on 17th- and 18th-Century Bernardine Sources from the Archives in Święta Anna and Kraków (Poland)
F93 (Theme 21: *Hybridity, Chamber music hall)
Jean-Marie Jacono: Musical Hybridity in French Orientalist Music of the 19th Century: from Existential Semiotics to the Comprehensive Analysis
F97 (Theme 27: °Artificial intelligence, R-510) Desy Macis: Posthumous Music as a Meaningful (Fan)art: A Semiotic Rethinking of AI Vocal Enunciation and Artistic Legacy

10:30-11:00

F85 (Theme 7. *Composition, interpretation and performance I, Concert hall)
Lina Navickaitė: Collective Memories and Cultural Meanings in Piano Repertoires
F90 (Theme 14: Vocal music, Small hall)
Josephine Papst: Schönberg’s unfulfilled claim to express the divine musically: „Seraphita“ and „Die Jakobsleiter“
F94 ( (Theme 21: *Hybridity, Chamber music hall)
Yusuke Felix Nakahara: Confrontation Between the Urban and Rural Spheres: Béla Bartók’s Second Piano Concerto (1930–1931) and its Allusion to Stravinsky’s The Firebird
F96 (Theme 27: °Artificial intelligence, R-510)
Lorenzo Incardona & Giuseppe Laricchia: “I’ve got blisters on my fingers!” Indexicality, Authenticity, Truthfulness, and the Semiotics of Micro-Resistance in the AI Age

Sessions G

14:00-14:30

G99 (Theme 8: **Composition, interpretation and performance II, Concert hall)
Lucy Abrams-Husso & Helga Karen: Ontology of creation – perspectives of new music specialists on interpreting a classic post-tonal work
G102 (Theme 15: Pärt and Feldman, Small hall)
Kristina Kõrver : Flower Motif and Possible Worlds in Arvo Pärt’s Für Alina
G106 (Theme 22: Holism, hermeneutics and interdisciplinarity, Chamber music hall)
Monika Karwaszewska & Mateusz Kawa: Boléro. The Meaning ‘in’ and ‘of’ Music
G110 (Theme 28: Culture and technology, R-510) Heloísa de A. Duarte Valente: “Feelings, Nothing more than feelings…” The “Glass Sound” and the Construction of a Cosmopolitan Imaginary in Brazil (1970-1980)

15:00-15:30

G100 (Theme 8: **Composition, interpretation and performance II, Concert hall)
Julian Hellaby: Chaminade and the Interpretative Tower
G104 (Theme 15: Pärt and Feldman, Small hall)
Ernests Circenis: Musical meaning-making and dissolving discursivity: a case study of Morton Feldman’s “Palais de Mari”
G108 (Theme 22: Holism, hermeneutics and interdisciplinarity, Chamber music hall)
Gabriele Marino: Zemiotics? Frank Zappa’s Project/Object as Object-Semiotics
G112 (Theme 28: Culture and technology, R-510)
Kalev Tiits: Listening to Algorithms as Cultural Codes in Digitally Produced Music Using Hofstadter’s Trichotomy of Digital Messages

15:30-16:00

G101 (Theme 8: **Composition, interpretation and performance II, Concert hall)
Sebastian Silén: Beyond Authorial Intent: How Contextual Awareness May Expand Musical Significance
G105 (Theme 15: Pärt and Feldman, Small hall)
Ivana Petković Lozo: Ornamentation and Suspended Teleology in Morton Feldman’s Late Works
G109 (Theme 22: Holism, hermeneutics and interdisciplinarity, Chamber music hall) Brian Inglis: Semiotic and hermeneutic approaches to Sandi Thom’s “I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair)”
G113 (Theme 28: Culture and technology, R-510)
Martin Knust: Music and News Framing: About Precarious Functions of Meaning-Making through Music