Polish Music since Szymanowski
- Author: Thomas, Adrian
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Contents
- List of musical examples
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Part I . The Captive Muse:
- 1. Szymanowski and his legacy
- 2. The Second World War
- 3. Post-war reconstruction
- 4. Socialist realism I: its onset and genres
- 5. Socialist realism II: concert music
- Part II . Facing West:
- 6. The 'Warsaw Autumn'
- 7. Engaging with the avant-garde
- Part III . The Search for Individual Identity:
- 8. The pull of tradition
- 9. Sonorism and experimentalism
- 10. A significant hinterland
- Part IV . Modernisms and National Iconographies:
- 11. Pursuing the abstract
- 12. Music and symbolism I: sacred and patriotic sentiment
- 13. Music and symbolism II: vernacular and classical icons
- 14. Emigre composers
- 15. Young Poland
- Part V . Postscript:
- 16. After Lutoslawski
- Appendices
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index.
