Faculty of Music University of Arts in Belgrade

Faculty of Music University of Arts in Belgrade

Milena Medić received her master degree (1995), magister degree (2000) and doctorate (2010) from the Department of Musicology in the class of Dr. Mirjana Veselinović-Hofman. She was employed at the Department of Music Theory until 1998. Her field of scientific research includes vocal music from the Renaissance to the present day, contemporary Serbian music and opera, and the interdisciplinary approach includes the history of music theory, archetypal-mythical criticism, narratology, hermeneutics, and semiotics. She is the recipient of the Stana Đurić Klein Award of the Musicological Society of Serbia for 2020 for original scientific contribution to musicology with the scientific monograph Musica ante oculos: ekphrasis and its virtues enargeia and ekplexis in vocal music at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, published by the Faculty of Music, in which she presented a completely new perspective on madrigalisms based on primary sources and analytical insights. She gave a public lecture on the occasion of the award presentation (May 4, 2022). She is the recipient of three letters of appreciation for exceptional contributions and services to the Faculty of Music (2017, 2018, 2022). She published the scientific monograph Archetype of Anime and the Transformation of Creative Consciousness from Wagner’s Isolde to Berg’s Lulu (2012) and edited the collective monograph Musica movet: affectus, ludus, corpus (2019). She is the co-editor of the collective monograph Histories and Narratives of Music Analysis (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013). She has collaborated on scientific papers in publications of the Faculty of Music, the Institute of Musicology of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Matica srpska, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, and the journals Novi zvuk and Musicology. She has presented papers at international and domestic conferences. She participated in the organization of three international conferences of the Faculty of Music (Music and Narrative, 2011; Musica movet: affectus, ludus, corpus, 2017; Interdisciplinarity of Music Theory: Knowledge of Music between History, Poetics, Theories, and Criticism, 2022). She is a member of the Musicological Society of Serbia and the Serbian Society for Music Theory.