Paweł Szymański’s Self-Analyses Reread

• Authors: Katarzyna Naliwajek-Mazurek
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article is an attempt to present important categories of composer Paweł Szymański’s musical language, based on his self-analytical statements, which were in major part answers to musicologists’ questions. Luciano Berio pointed out why the situation of a composer who would like to address questions about his or her music is difficult - a lack of necessary detachment would be one of the reasons. A musicologist, on the other hand, is tempted to construct their own supposedly objective analytical view of a composer’s musical language. The dialogistic approach proposed by anthropological musicology may be a solution to these dilemmas. Other main topics mentioned in the article are related to the role of meta-concepts in Szymański’s musical language.

Keywords

EN

Luciano Berio; Paweł Szymański; music; visual arts; intertextual

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Musicology Today
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 90-98

Dates

published

2015-12-01

online

2015-12-31

Contributors

author

Katarzyna Naliwajek-Mazurek

• University of Warsaw

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/muso-2015-0010