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The book presents the history of the only strictly scientific Polish musicological periodical Kwartalnik Muzyczny. It shows how the editorial board of the periodi-cal met with true approval and harsh criticism. The subject allows the author to present the beginnings of Polish musicology and its evolution through three epochs: the late partitioning period, the interwar period of Poland's independ-ence, and the early years after the Second World War
List of 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, Józef 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
About the author
Dr Mägorzata Sieradz focuses her research on the Polish musical culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, along with the history of music journals.
