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Early Music in Poland

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Course ID: 3106-EarM-OG
Erasmus code / ISCED: 03.2 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0215) Music and performing arts The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title: Early Music in Poland
Name in Polish: Early Music in Poland
Organizational unit: Institute of Musicology
Course groups: (in Polish) Fakultety, Pracownie, OG
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General university courses
General university courses in the humanities
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): 2.00 Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles:
  • the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS;
  • the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h;
  • 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes;
  • weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS;
  • work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load.

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Language: English
Type of course:

elective courses
general courses

Short description:

The class will discuss early music in Poland in a wide spectrum – from selected medieval to Early Modern phenomena and pieces to echoes of early music in the works of 20th- and 21st-century composers. Classes will be held in English by researchers specialising both in early music and in contemporary culture, including popular music.

Full description:

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.

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.

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 methods and assessment criteria:

Class attendance and passing the final test

Classes in period "Winter semester 2023/24" (past)

Time span: 2023-10-01 - 2024-01-28
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Type of class:
Seminar, 30 hours, 20 places more information
Coordinators: Tomasz Górny, Mariusz Gradowski
Group instructors: Tomasz Górny, Mariusz Gradowski, Agnieszka Leszczyńska, Katarzyna Naliwajek, Katarzyna Spurgjasz
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Classes in period "Winter semester 2024/25" (future)

Time span: 2024-10-01 - 2025-01-26
Selected timetable range:
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Type of class:
Seminar, 30 hours, 20 places more information
Coordinators: Anastasiya Niakrasava, Katarzyna Spurgjasz
Group instructors: Tomasz Górny, Mariusz Gradowski, Agnieszka Leszczyńska, Katarzyna Naliwajek, Katarzyna Spurgjasz
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