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Author Thomas, Adrian, 1947-

Title Polish music since Szymanowski / Adrian Thomas
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 384 pages) : music
Series Music in the 20th century ; [19]
Music in the twentieth century ; 19.
Contents pt. I. The captive muse. Szymanowski and his legacy -- The Second World War -- Post-war reconstruction -- Socialist realism I : its onset and genres -- Socialist realism II : concert music. Group '49. Panufnik. Bacewicz. Lutosławski -- pt. II. Facing west. The 'Warsaw Autumn' -- Engaging with the avant-garde -- pt. III. The search for individual identity. The pull of tradition. Bacewicz and Szabelski. Baird. Lutosławski. Serocki -- Sonorism and experimentalism. The 'Polish School', sonorism, and electronic music. Penderecki. Górecki. Szalonek. Schaeffer -- A significant hinterland. Seven composers. Krauze and Sikorski -- pt. IV. Modernisms and national iconographies. Pursuing the abstract. Lutosławski. Penderecki -- Music and symbolism I : sacred and patriotic sentiment. Church and State. Penderecki. Górecki. Kilar -- Music and symbolism II : vernacular and classical icons. Kilar. Krauze. Górecki -- Emigré composers -- Young Poland. The 'StalowaWola' generation. Warsaw. Experimental and electronic music -- pt. V. Postscript. After Lutosławski -- Appendices
Summary Since 1937, Poland's music has been influenced by violent political upheavals - World War Two, Stalinism, the 'thaw', the election of the Polish Pope and the rise and fall of Solidarity. Issues of how artistic freedom was exercised and how composers reacted to these upheavals form the core of this study
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-365) and index
Notes English
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Subject Music -- Poland -- 20th century -- History and criticism
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- International.
Music
Poland
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2003055134
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