The Beginnings of Polish Musicology

Contents

• Introduction
• I Socio-institutional contexts of the establishment of Kwartalnik
• Muzyczny
• 1. Panorama of Polish musicological journalism until
• 1910 - Roman Chojnacki's Mloda Muzyka and Przeglad
• Muzyczny - WTM and Henryk Opienski's Kwartalnik
• Muzyczny (1911-14) - collaboration with Adolf Chybinski -
• clarification of the concept of a musicological quarterly -
• university series
• 2. Societies, associations, institutes of the interwar
• period: 'Club of professional music press' - Polish Society
• for Contemporary Music - Polish Musicological Society -
• Frederic Chopin Institute - Association of Early Music
• Lovers and Publishing Society of Polish Music as an
• institutional background to Kwartalnik Muzyczny
• 3. Music magazines of the interwar period: Lwowskie
• Wiadomosci Muzyczne i Literackie, Poznan's Przeglad
• Muzyczny, Mateusz Glinski's Muzyka - other environmental
• and local musical magazines - controversies over the model
• of an expert journal of the milieu
• II Hopes of Polish musicology - Kwartalnik Muzyczny in the
• years 1928-1933
• 1. The idea of publishing a musicological quarterly -
• preparatory work - establishing Kwartalnik Muzyczny:
• the periodical's concept - programme assumptions:
• the first editorial - reactions of the milieu
• 2. Musicological circles in Poland (Lviv, Cracow,
• Poznan, Warsaw) as addresses of the Kwartalnik -
• socio-scientific contexts: ideas about the functioning
• of the musicological environment - main topics of
• interest - other possibilities of publishing musicological
• studies: academic publishing
• 3. Musicology among academic disciplines in the interwar
• period - systematics, discussions
• 4. Authors and subjects: historical-musical work - 'technical
• history' (Chybinski) versus 'live history' (Jachimecki);
• contemporary music as a subject for research; music
• theory and acoustics; philosophy, aesthetics, sociology;
• psychology, pedagogy; ethnography and musical folklore;
• themed editions
• 5. Muzyka Polska (1934-39) - Polski Rocznik
• Muzykologiczny (1935, 1936)
• III Difficult years - Kwartalnik Muzyczny in the years
• 1948-1950
• 1. New context of the functioning of the academic milieu and
• their publications - 'bourgeoisie musicology'
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• 2. Ideologisation of learning about music - conferences,
• conventions, congresses - Marxist musicology - Panstwowy
• Instytut Sztuki - gradual radicalisation in academia
• 3. An attempt to continue the formula of the magazine - Adolf
• Chybinski and his collaborators (Zofia Lissa, Tadeusz
• Ochlewski, Jozef M. Chominski - scope of cooperation
• and organisation of editorial work) - new organisation of
• publishing work (PWM, PIS)
• 4. Authors and subjects as well as concepts, problems and work
• methods - continuation of the pre-war work - around the
• current issues of musical socialist realism - thematic
• projects
• Conclusion
• Premises of the publishing crisis - change of generation -
• new publishing initiatives in the field of musicological
• periodicals: Muzyka, Studia Muzykologiczne, Rocznik
• Chopinowski
• Afterword
• Abbreviations
• Bibliography
• Secondary literature