Musicology TodayPub Date : 2024-05-08DOI: 10.2478/muso-2023-0004
Małgorzata Woźna-Stankiewicz
{"title":"Everyday Outdoor Music Life in Galician Cracow","authors":"Małgorzata Woźna-Stankiewicz","doi":"10.2478/muso-2023-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/muso-2023-0004","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The paper characterises music-involving cultural practices in Cracow’s urban parks, squares, streets, and ice rinks in the period of the so-called Galician Autonomy (1866–1918). Typologies of the spaces where music was performed and of open-air events involving music have been proposed. Music repertoires and performers have been discussed. The main sources for this text are press materials, memoirs, regulations, sheet music, and iconography.","PeriodicalId":40088,"journal":{"name":"Musicology Today","volume":"10 s2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141001408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Musicology TodayPub Date : 2024-04-19DOI: 10.2478/muso-2023-0003
Rafał Ciesielski
{"title":"Żary – The City","authors":"Rafał Ciesielski","doi":"10.2478/muso-2023-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/muso-2023-0003","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The paper discusses Georg Philipp Telemann’s presence in Sorau (now Żary in Poland) in 1704–1708, inspirations from Polish folk music in Telemann’s works, as well as projects undertaken by and in the present-day city of Żary with a view to incorporating and commemorating Telemann’s figure and oeuvre in the city’s contemporary culture.","PeriodicalId":40088,"journal":{"name":"Musicology Today","volume":" 29","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140683417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Musicology TodayPub Date : 2024-04-14DOI: 10.2478/muso-2023-0002
Ryszard Wieczorek
{"title":"‘Besolte Instrumentisten der Königlichen Stadt Breslaw’: The Hess Brothers’ Anthology (1555) and Its European Context*","authors":"Ryszard Wieczorek","doi":"10.2478/muso-2023-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/muso-2023-0002","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The paper focuses on a comprehensive dance collection compiled by two Wrocław/Breslau town musicians (Stadtpfeifer), the brothers Bartholomäus and Paul Hess. The anthology, partly preserved at Wrocław University Library, was published in 1555 at the Wrocław printing house of Crispin Scharffenberg and documents the transition of dance repertoire from the courtly realm to the private and public spheres, which was typical of the mid-sixteenth century. The Wrocław collection, scored for wind ensemble, contains 477 four- and five-part dances of German, Polish, French, and Italian provenance. The paper offers some new views on the repertoire from the collection. Particular attention has been given to the so-called Polish dances.","PeriodicalId":40088,"journal":{"name":"Musicology Today","volume":"52 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140704931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Musicology TodayPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.2478/muso-2022-0007
S. Żerańska-Kominek
{"title":"‘The Whiteness’ of Music Analysis. A Gloss on Philip Ewell's Lamentation over Schenker","authors":"S. Żerańska-Kominek","doi":"10.2478/muso-2022-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/muso-2022-0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The article is a polemic with the views formulated in 2020 by Philip A. Ewell in the Journal of the Society for Music Theory. His text is a critique of European music theory, mainly as represented in the writings by Heinrich Schenker. Ewell's main claim is that European music theory is based on racist concepts.","PeriodicalId":40088,"journal":{"name":"Musicology Today","volume":"104 1","pages":"96 - 103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78627555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Musicology TodayPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.2478/muso-2022-0003
C. Bylander
{"title":"The Mass Song Seminar at Nieborów, June 1950","authors":"C. Bylander","doi":"10.2478/muso-2022-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/muso-2022-0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The seminar on mass songs held in Nieborów, Poland in June 1950 is notable for what it did not accomplish: Amid a diversity of opinions voiced by poets, composers, and cultural officials, no firm guidelines for this seemingly new type of song emerged. What we can draw from examining the proceedings of this three-day session are an enhanced understanding of mass song as an evolving, not a static phenomenon and fresh insights into the political and logistical complexities that faced composers at this time.","PeriodicalId":40088,"journal":{"name":"Musicology Today","volume":"163 1","pages":"39 - 54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76155791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Musicology TodayPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.2478/muso-2022-0002
Agnieszka Jeż
{"title":"General Music Education in a Multi-Ethnic Context, on the Example of State-Run Schools in Poland between the World Wars","authors":"Agnieszka Jeż","doi":"10.2478/muso-2022-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/muso-2022-0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The paper concerns the presence and ideological identity-building function of Polish folk music in Polish state-run schools between the World Wars, and the experiences of Jewish children and teenagers in this regard. The young Polish state brought together populations from the former three partitioned territories, which included numerous national minorities. The need for bond-forming, powerfully symbolic elements supporting a collectively developed national identity was soon strongly felt. Polish folk music, with particular emphasis on its regional varieties, perfectly fitted into the ideological current of patriotic and civic youth education in both state-run and private schools. Dances and songs which children learned at music and PE lessons familiarised them with the wealth of traditions, imbuing them with pride and the love of national culture. The paper quotes examples of young Jews’ experiences in this context, as they encountered Polish folksongs and dances in state-run schools: their responses to this issue and the impact of such contacts on their identities. The source material comes from pre-WWII press, in which we hear the voices of the children themselves, reporting their experiences.","PeriodicalId":40088,"journal":{"name":"Musicology Today","volume":"2 1","pages":"28 - 38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75182765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Musicology TodayPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.2478/muso-2022-0004
Beata Bolesławska-Lewandowska
{"title":"Three Psalms, Liturgia sacra, Fragments: the Last Works in Zygmunt Mycielski's Oeuvre","authors":"Beata Bolesławska-Lewandowska","doi":"10.2478/muso-2022-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/muso-2022-0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In his concept of a composer's creative work Mieczysław Tomaszewski distinguishes the late and final phases. Edward W. Said, on the other hand, devoted his last publication to reflections on the late style in music and literature, referring to the existing body of research on the subject. What is the position, in the context of both these perspectives, of three important works for voices and instruments by Zygmunt Mycielski: Three Psalms, Liturgia sacra, and Fragments to words by Juliusz Słowacki, written in the last few years of the composer's life? The author discusses these works and attempts to answer that question in her conclusion.","PeriodicalId":40088,"journal":{"name":"Musicology Today","volume":"48 1","pages":"55 - 72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75544020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Musicology TodayPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.2478/muso-2022-0005
Agnieszka Cieślak-Krupa
{"title":"A Kiss for Cinderella (1925) The Importance of Historical Accuracy in Reconstructing Scores to Silent Films Based on the Mirskey Collection","authors":"Agnieszka Cieślak-Krupa","doi":"10.2478/muso-2022-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/muso-2022-0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Collections of silent film music constitute valuable sources for historical research on the musical practice in the silent film era. The musical prints preserved in the Mirskey Collection were previously used by the author to reconstruct a score for the movie A Kiss for Cinderella (1925, dir. Herbert Brenon). This article describes the historical context considered during the reconstruction and discusses the workflow applied by Nek Mirskey (Bronisław Mirski) as a musical director of movie theatres. A comparative analysis of sheet music from the Mirskey Collection accompanied by handwritten notes, original cue sheet compiled by James Bradford for the Paramount Pictures, and a digitised copy of the film, have led to conclusions that are applicable not only to Mirskey's methods of compiling scores, but also to the more general rules for the development of musical accompaniments to silent films in the 1920s.","PeriodicalId":40088,"journal":{"name":"Musicology Today","volume":"47 1","pages":"73 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79789974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Musicology TodayPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.2478/muso-2022-0006
Sylwia Makomaska
{"title":"How to ‘Discover the Beauty of Life’ in / against the Disease? Musicology in the Therapy for the Elderly with Oncological Illnesses","authors":"Sylwia Makomaska","doi":"10.2478/muso-2022-0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/muso-2022-0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Cooperation between the Institute of Musicology of the University of Warsaw and ‘Jestem’ Foundation began in 2013. The Foundation aims to support adults (especially elderly people) with chronic or terminal illnesses. The so-called ‘hour on beauty’, the Foundation's innovation introduced as part of the schedule of activities for patients, takes the form of weekly meetings with interesting persons (journalists, actors, travellers, etc.), and in the last several years – also with students of musicology. Cooperation involves regular facultative classes at which teams of musicology students prepare educational-therapeutic projects subsequently implemented at the Foundation's seat as part of the ‘hour on beauty’. The paper presents the model of cooperation worked out over the years and examples of original projects implemented by musicology students. The diversity of topics has been discussed here along with effective methods of patient activation (such as task-oriented listening, joint singing, and improvisation using everyday objects). The Foundation's work fills a gap in the Polish health care system resulting from the National Health Fund (NFZ) only financing stationary and home-based hospices but not designating any resources for day-care hospices targeting those oncological patients who need not be permanently hospitalised. The Foundation strives to prevent their exclusion and to improve the quality of their lives as well as their well-being. The benefits of the cooperation are invaluable. There is no doubt that this project (innovative on the Polish scale) reveals a new and potentially surprising function of musicology in the contemporary world.","PeriodicalId":40088,"journal":{"name":"Musicology Today","volume":"35 1","pages":"86 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78392084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}