Polish Music Since Szymanowski
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Polish Music Since Szymanowski
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Author : Adrian Thomas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Polish Music Since Szymanowski written by Adrian Thomas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Music categories.
This book looks at Polish music since 1937 and its interaction with political and cultural turmoil. In Part I musical developments are placed in the context of the socio-political upheavals of inter-war Poland, Nazi occupation, and the rise and fall of the Stalinist policy of socialist realism (1948–54). Part II investigates the nature of the 'thaw' between 1954 and 1959, focusing on the role of the 'Warsaw Autumn' Festival. Part III discusses how composers reacted to the onset of serialism by establishing increasingly individual voices in the 1960s. In addition to a discussion of 'sonorism' (from Penderecki to Szalonek), it considers how different generations responded to the modernist aesthetic (Bacewicz and Lutoslawski, Baird and Serocki, Górecki and Krauze). Part IV views Polish music since the 1970s, including the issue of national identity and the arrival of a talented generation and its ironic, postmodern slant on the past.
Polish Music Since Szymanowski
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Author : Adrian Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2008-02-01
Polish Music Since Szymanowski written by Adrian Thomas and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-01 with Music categories.
Issues of how artistic freedom was exercised and how well-known figures (Lutoslawski, Górecki, Penderecki) and unduly neglected composers (Baird, Serocki, Krauze) reacted to political upheavals form the core of this study of an incredibly rich musical history. Since the death of Szymanowski in 1937, Poland's music has been influenced by violent political upheavals--World War II, the Stalinism of the Cold War, the "thaw" of the late 1950s and 60s, the election of the Polish Pope and the rise and fall of the Solidarity Trade Union.
Szymanowski On Music
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Author : Karol Szymanowski
language : en
Publisher: Toccata Press
Release Date : 1999
Szymanowski On Music written by Karol Szymanowski and has been published by Toccata Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Music categories.
The first comprehensive selection of Szymanowski's writings to be published in English, containing all the most important of the composer's essays and interviews. Karol Szymanowski [1882-1937] is now widely acknowledged to be the most important Polish composer since Chopin. He was also a considerable thinker on musical topics: the role of music in society, the goal of musical education, thepurpose of criticism, the nature of Romanticism, the hallmarks of national identity - indeed, he was passionately concerned with the emergence of the Polish voice in music, and the role of Chopin in particular. Szymanowski on Music is the first comprehensive selection of his writings to be published in English. It contains all the most important of the composer's essays and interviews, throws light on the trying conditions under which he was obliged to work in the 1920s and '30s, especially in education, and gives perceptive assessments of the work of some of the major composers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - Wagner, Strauss, Stravinsky, Ravel, Satie and others - and the trends they embodied. A number of pieces of a more biographical nature are also included. Overall it provides, in the words of the translator Alistair Wightman, `abundant evidence of the breadth and depthof Szymanowski's personal culture, and at the same time a telling demonstration of his search for an all-embracing humanistic synthesis'. Dr Wightman faces his pioneering translations from Szymanowski's Polish originals with an extensive introductory essay that places his literary activities in the context of his life and career. This book will be a vital element in the rediscovery of the music of one of the twentieth century's most appealing composers.
Karol Szymanowski
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Author : Alistair Wightman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Karol Szymanowski written by Alistair Wightman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Music categories.
The music of the Polish composer Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) has enjoyed a resurgence of interest in recent years. Despite wide recognition in his own lifetime, Szymanowski?s works were somewhat overlooked in the decades following his death. Outside Poland, changing fashions militated against acceptance of his achievement, and subsequent generations of Polish composers regarded his music as too reactionary to provide a basis on which to found a national musical identity. In this full-scale study of Karol Szymanowski?s life and music, Alistair Wightman explores the composer?s position as a constant outsider in his own country, yet a ?good European? in the ways in which he responded positively to a diverse range of musical talents, in particular as Stravinsky, Strauss, Berg, Hindemith, Prokofiev and Ravel. The book throws light on Szymanowski?s relationship to the Polish musical establishment, the reception of his works at home and abroad, his work as an educationalist, and the essentially European dimension of his art, drawing on letters, polemical writings, verse, theatrical sketches and the memoirs of family, friends and contemporaries. All of Szymanowski?s significant works are discussed, illustrated with nearly 140 music examples. Evaluation is made of the close links existing between the composer?s musical and literary works from the earliest stages of his career, as well as the various ideological strands that went together to form the unique, humanistic synthesis, characteristic of his mature work.
Polish Music In The Twentieth Century
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Author : Jacek Rogala
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Polish Music In The Twentieth Century written by Jacek Rogala and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Music categories.
Szymanowski And His Legacy
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Author : Marcin Gmys
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Szymanowski And His Legacy written by Marcin Gmys and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
The Symphony And Symphonic Thinking In Polish Music Since 1956
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Author : Beata Bolesławska
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-05-22
The Symphony And Symphonic Thinking In Polish Music Since 1956 written by Beata Bolesławska and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-22 with Music categories.
1956 was a year of transition in Poland, and an important year for Polish music. This year saw the beginning of a political thaw – sometimes called the Polish October – in communist Poland. It was also the year of the establishment of the 'Warsaw Autumn' International Festival of Contemporary Music. This was a time of great artistic ferment in Polish music, which also deeply influenced symphonic thinking. The year 1956 is thus an appropriate starting point for Beata Bolesławska’s study of the contemporary Polish symphonic tradition. Bolesławska investigates the influential Polish avant-garde, illuminating the ways in which new musical means and ideas influenced symphonic music and the genre of the symphony in the music of such important composers as Witold Lutosławski (1913–1994), Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (1933–2010) and Krzysztof Penderecki (b. 1933). Referring to the main elements of the European tradition, as well as examining briefly the symphonic activity in Poland before 1956, the book concentrates on the symphonic writing in the context of avant-garde trends, represented by the so-called 'Polish school of composers', as well as on its later redefinitions proposed by Polish composers up to the present day.
Polish Music Literature 1515 1990
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Author : Kornel Michałowski
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Polish Music Literature 1515 1990 written by Kornel Michałowski and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Chamber music categories.
The Szymanowski Companion
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Author : Stephen Downes
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-09
The Szymanowski Companion written by Stephen Downes and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-09 with Music categories.
The Polish composer Karol Szymanowski is one of the most fascinating musical figures of the early twentieth century. His works included four symphonies, two violin concertos, the operas Hagith and King Roger, the ballet-pantomime Harnasie, the oratorio Stabat Mater, as well as numerous piano, violin, vocal and choral compositions. The profile and popularity of Szymanowski's music outside Poland has never been higher and continues to grow. The Szymanowski Companion constitutes the most significant and comprehensive reference source to the composer in English. Edited by two of the leading scholars in the field, Paul Cadrin and Stephen Downes, the collection consists of over 50 contributions from an international array of contributors, including recognized Polish experts. The Companion thus provides a systematic, authoritative and up-to-date compilation of information concerning the composer's life, thought and works.
After Chopin
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Author : Maja Trochimczyk
language : en
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Release Date : 2000
After Chopin written by Maja Trochimczyk and has been published by Pendragon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Music categories.