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Polska muzyka współczesna. Kierunki - idee - postawy

Związek Kompozytorów Polskich - Oddział w Katowicach Uniwersytet Śląski Filia w Cieszynie, Katowice 2001, 176 pages.

Proceedings of a conference held in Cieszyn on 17-18 November. The presented papers are divided into three groups, corresponding to the three elements appearing in the conference title (editor’s preface). The brief reports include profiles of three little-known Polish composers. The following music theorists and composers gave presentations during the conference:

Papers:

Jolanta Bauman-Szulakowska The aesthetic evolution of 20th-century Silesian music
Anna Granat-Janki The work of Wrocław composers 1945-1999
Teresa Dorożała-Brodniewicz Poznań Music Spring - metamorphoses of the festival
Leon Markiewicz The 5th Symphony - Bolesław Szabelski’s opus summum
Anna Nowak Contemporary Polish piano concerto. Back to tradition?
Andrzej Wójcik, Łukasz Tofilski The antiquity in the ideas and views of 20th-century composers
Walentyna Węgrzyn-Klisowska The idea of colourism in 20th-century Polish music
Ewa Kowalska-Zając The meeting-point of cultures - serialism in the works of Roman Haubenstock-Ramati
Andrzej Dziadek The contemporary idiom of symphonic music
Wiesław Cienciała Number as an inspiration for constructing the elements of musical language
Halina Lorkowska Mirosław Bukowski’s vocal lyrical works
Bogumiła Mika Music and “Generation X” - the image of a young artist

Reports:

Ewa Bocek-Orzyszek Jan Gawlas (1901-1965) - on the centenary of his birthday
Henryk Orzyszek Henryk Tondera (1903-1986) - musician and folklorist
Dorota Susuł Kazimierz Jurdziński’s (1894-1960) works for organ - an outline