In this article, I discuss music to performance media transfers and transformations, a lesser-known form of media transposition that has been largely overlooked by scholars in intermedial studies. Through a performance analysis of my own work Mwana Wanga, a theatrical performance derived from a recorded song, I locate the creative process of the theatre project as a critical site for media transposition. I argue that there is a complex process of transfer and transformation of media from Dearest Child to Mwana Wanga and that a systematic reflection of the creative process uncovers the mechanisms of these transfers and transformations from music to theatrical performance. The article intends to situate music-to-performance transpositions in the intermedial discourse and also clarify the methodological design that enables the study of transfers and transformations in the creative process.

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Catherine Makhumula 的 Mwana Wanga 从音乐到戏剧的转移和转变

在这篇文章中，我讨论了音乐到表演媒体的转移和转换，这是一种鲜为人知的媒体转换形式，在中间研究中被学者们很大程度上忽视了。通过对我自己的作品 Mwana Wanga（一种源自录制歌曲的戏剧表演）的表演分析，我将戏剧项目的创作过程定位为媒体转换的关键场所。我认为有一个从最亲爱的孩子到 Mwana Wanga 的媒体转移和转换的复杂过程，对创作过程的系统反映揭示了这些从音乐到戏剧表演的转移和转换的机制。