Early Music in Poland
General data
Course ID: | 3106-EarM-OG |
Erasmus code / ISCED: |
03.2
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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 General university courses General university courses General university courses in the humanities |
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): |
2.00
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Language: | English |
Type of course: | elective 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
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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 |
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MO KON
TU W TH FR |
Type of class: |
Seminar, 30 hours, 20 places
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Coordinators: | Anastasiya Niakrasava, Katarzyna Spurgjasz | |
Group instructors: | Tomasz Górny, Mariusz Gradowski, Agnieszka Leszczyńska, Katarzyna Naliwajek, Katarzyna Spurgjasz | |
Students list: | (inaccessible to you) | |
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