Polish music since 1945
By: edited by Eva Mantzourani
Publisher: Musica Iagellonica
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Krakow
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9788370991852
Subjects: Music; Congresses; History and criticism; Composers
Description: "This volume is the result of research presented during the first international conference on Polish music organised by a British university (Canterbury Christ Church University), in 2009. The collection brings together many of the leading scholars in the field of post-war Polish music studies, and is divided into three parts."
Notes: "This volume has its origins in late spring 2009, when, from 30 April to 2 May, the Department of Music at Canterbury Christ Church University hosted an international conference on 'Polish music since 1945'"--Page 7.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Polish composers in context. The Polish musical psyche : from the Second Republic into the Third / Charles Bodman Rae ; Locating Polish music / Adrian Thomas ; Polish music, Polish composers 1918-2007 / Marek Podhajski ; The construction of a Polish School : self-perception and foreign perception of Polish contemporary music between 1956 and 1976 / Ruth Seehaber ; Between "a game with a listener" and a symbolic referral to tradition : musical quotation in Polish art music since 1945 / Bogumiła Mika ; The Stalinist state as patron : composers and commissioning in early Cold War Poland / David Tompkins ; 1968, Operation Danube, ISCM and Polish music / Maja Trochimczyk ; Polish music and the problem of the cultural Cold War / Alicja Jarzębska ; Panufnik and Polishness / Niall O'Loughlin ; Tadeusz Kassern : music from his American period / Violetta Kostka ; The "commissioned" works of Tadeusz Baird / Barbara Literska ; Paweł Szymánski and the multiple narrative in music / Katarzyna Naliwajek-Mazurek -; The music of Paweł Mykietyn : in between pastiche, deconstruction and the great narration / Marta Szoka ; Dutilleux and Lutosławski : Franco-Polish connections / Caroline Rae.; title: Part II. Analytical perspectives. Lutosławski's Second symphony (1967) and Górecki's Second symphony (1972) : two concepts of the bipartite late avant-garde symphony / Beata Bolesławska-Lewandowska ; Górecki's creative journey's between nature and culture : around the Copernican symphony / Teresa Malecka ; Wojciech Kilar's last symphonies : modification of a paradigm / Stanisław Będkowski ; Lutosławski at the crossroads : Three postludes : a reappraisal of their style and compositional technique / Zbigniew Skowron ; Lutosławski's tonal architecture as defined by a Schenkerian tonal mode / Suyun Tang ; Witold Lutoslawski's Portrait of woman 2000 : new aspects of his compositional technique / Aleksandra Bartos ; Interpreting indeterminacy : filming Lutosławski's String quartet / Amanda Bayley and Neil Heyde ; Back to the future ; the interaction of form and motive in Penderecki's middle symphonies / Cindy Bylander ; The St. Luke passion and the Eighth symphony Lieder der Vergänglichkeit : the key works in Penderecki's oeuvre / Regina Chłopicka ; Theological aspects to Penderecki's St. Luke passion / Tim Rutherford-Johnson ; Infernal and celestial circles in Paradise lost : Milton and Penderecki / Agnieszka Draus ; The musical language of Kazimierz Serocki : analytical aspects of his musical output / Tomasz Kienik ; Sonoristics and serial thinking : on the distinctive features of works from the Polish school / Iwona Lindstedt ; The sonoristic score : inside and outside / Anna Masłowiec.; title: Part III. Polish jazz, film music and the marketplace. Underground roads to new music : walls, tunnels, and the emergence of jazz avant-garde in 1960's Poland / Zbigniew Granat ; Experiencing agape : Preisner and Kieślowski's Three colours: Blue / Nicholas Reyland ; Sacropolo or Sacrum in the marketplace / Renata Pasternak-Mazur.