Early Music in Poland 3106-EarM-OG

1. Music in Medieval Poland: from Bogurodzica to Mikołaj of Radom.
2. Music of the Golden Age in Cracow: from Jerzy Liban to Mikołaj Gomółka.
3. Music in Gdańsk 1560–1660: from Franciscus de Rivulo to Kaspar Förster.
4. Italian Influences on Polish Music in the 17th-Century (Court Music, Sacred Music).
5. Common Songs of the Commonwealth: Devotional and Secular Music Crossing Ethnic, Linguistic, Confessional, and Geographical Boundaries.
6. Polish Style in the 18th-Century Music: Johann Sebastian Bach as a Composer of Polish Kings.
7. Wanda Landowska and the Beginnings of the Historically Informed Performance Movement.
8. Early Music in 20th-Century Polish Music.
9. The Surconventionalism of Paweł Szymański.
10. Middle and younger generations of Polish composers and early music: Paweł Mykietyn, Adam Falkiewicz, Andrzej Kwieciński, Rafał Ryterski.
11. Bastarda and Petrus de Grudencz: Polish early music reimagined.
12. Popular Polish early music songs as pop/rock (Anna Maria Jopek, Lao Che).
13. Polish spiritual jazz? Bogurodzica’s case.

Type of course

general courses
elective courses

Course coordinators

Term 2024Z:

Anastasiya Niakrasava
Katarzyna Spurgjasz

Term 2023Z:

Tomasz Górny
Mariusz Gradowski

Learning outcomes

Student has general knowledge of Polish early music as well as the references and reinterpretations of that musical tradition in 20th- and 21st-century culture. They can also recognise selected pieces from that period by the ear.

Assessment criteria

Class attendance and passing the final test

Bibliography

– The history of music in Poland,
Vol. 1/2: Katarzyna Morawska, The Middle Ages 1320–1500, Warsaw 2001.
Vol. 2: Katarzyna Morawska, The Renaissance 1500–1600, Warsaw 2002.
Vol. 3/1: Barbara Przybyszewska-Jarmińska, The Baroque 1595–1696, Warsaw 2002.
Vol. 3/2: Alina Mądry, The Baroque 1697–1795: Religious Music and its Baroque Modus Operandi, Warsaw 2015.
– Szymon Paczkowski, Polish Style in the Music of Johann Sebastian Bach, Lanham 2017.
– Landowska on Music, ed. Denise Restout, Robert Hawkins, New York 1964.
– Katarzyna Naliwajek, Paweł Szymański’s Self-Analyses Reread, “Musicology Today” 2015, pp. 91–98.
– Katarzyna Naliwajek, Paweł Szymański and the multiple narrative in music, in: Polish Music since 1945, ed. Eva Mantzourani, Kraków 2013, pp. 129–139.

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