Edited by Marek Podhajski
Assistant Editor: Barbara Gogol-Drożniakiewicz, Mirosław Kalinowski
ISBN: 978-83-7702-567-3
Pages: 1344
Format: 28 x 21 cm (hard cover)
Year: 2013
Language: English


CONTENTS

Marek Podhajski: Foreword

History

Norman Davies: Pages on the History of Poland 1918-1990

Jan Nowak-Jeziorański: At the Turn of the Centuries

Mirosław Filipowicz: Reflections on Poland during the First Decade of the New Century

Culture

Janusz Żarnowski: Polish Culture 1918-2000

Music

Mieczysława Demska-Trębacz: Musical Culture

Witold Lutosławski: On the Situation of Music Today

Marek Podhajski: Division into periods

Danuta Gwizdalanka: What Is Polish Music?

Marek Podhajski: Neoclassicism

Marek Podhajski: Socialist Realism - its genesis and peculiarities

Izabela Pacewicz: Socialist Realism in Polish Music

Iwona Lindstedt: Dodecaphony and Serialism in the Works of 20-Century Polish Composers

Włodzimierz Kotoński: Rudiments of Electronic Music in Poland

Izabela Pacewicz: Sonorism

Krzysztof Droba: Polish Sonorism

Anna Rutkowska: Postmodernism

Joanna Miklaszewska: Minimalism in Polish Music

Marek Chołoniewski: Multimedia Art

Andrzej Chłopecki: The New Wave of Polish Composers: the Beginning of the 21st Century

Explanations and the list of abbreviations
The list of Polish composers active in the years 1918-2010

Biographies of polish composers

About the Stanisław Moniuszko Music Academy in Gdańsk
About the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin