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The Musical Language of Kazimierz Serocki in the Light of the Composer’s Self-Reflection

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Lindstedt I.

Musicology Today

2015

vol. 12

issue 1

63-73

The article is an attempt to reconstruct the fundamental elements of Kazimierz Serocki’s musical language on the basis of his own statements concerning his music. Those statements come first and foremost from his lectures prepared for the Meisterkurs für Komposition at the Musik-Akademie in Basel (1976), whose manuscripts are now held in the Polish Composers’ Archive of the University of Warsaw Library. The lecture texts (Notations- und Realisationsprobleme, Klangfarben als Kompositionsmaterial, Chance der offenen Form) present a whole set of problems which Serocki considered as the most important for his method of composition. The central place among these problems is occupied by the idea of “composing with sound colour” (“mit Klangfarben komponieren”). Sound colour plays a decisive role in the creative process, as it constitutes self-sufficient material for composition. Sound colour has a form-shaping role in the musical work, since it can build sequences of sound structures in various configurations, which perform various functions in the piece. The idea of composing with sound colour is presented by the composer in the context of an adequate way of notating sound phenomena and the possibility of performing music from such notation. This idea was also related in the lectures to the principles of constructing polyvalent open forms (mehrdeutige Form) out of small- and large-scale components. Pitch organisation, on the other hand, remains of secondary interest in the composer’s commentaries. Serocki’s self-reflection provides us with original and innovative answers to the most important problems that contemporary composers have had to face in their work. It also provides significant and hitherto frequently little-known insights into the components of the unique style of the author of Pianophonie, and these insights can be effectively utilised in the course of future research on Serocki’s work.

Iwona Lindstedt, „«Piszę tylko muzykę». Kazimierz Serocki”, Kraków: Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, 2020, ss. 651. ISBN 978-83-224-5142-7

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Draus A.

Muzyka

2022

vol. 67

issue 3

168-173

Book Reveiw of: Iwona Lindstedt, „Piszę tylko muzykę”. Kazimierz Serocki, Kraków 2020. Iwona Lindstedt's book about Serocki is one of the most valuable PWM Edition's offers, addressed to a wide audience. It is demanding and extensive reading, as it eludes the category of pocket editions that are popular today, which dangerously touch upon the accusation of “everything and nothing at the same time”. It also does not seduce the reader with the social engineering narrative of debunking myths or sensational threads - which are perhaps readily attractive, but sometimes far from the so-called the most objectified truth possible. On the other hand, it is a reliable, well-documented image of the composer and his work, from genesis to resonance, with all the seriousness due to him, but with the lightness of the language of the novel, which draws people into the history of characters absolutely unique to Polish culture.

Recenzja książki: Iwona Lindstedt, „Piszę tylko muzykę”. Kazimierz Serocki, Kraków 2020. Książka Iwony Lindstedt o Serockim to jedna z najbardziej wartościowych propozycji PWM-u, adresowana do szerokiego odbiorcy. Jest lekturą wymagającą i obszerną, gdyż wymyka się kategorii popularnych dziś wydań kieszonkowych, ocierających się niebezpiecznie o zarzut „wszystkiego i niczego jednocześnie“. Nie uwodzi również czytelnika socjotechniczną narracją odbrązawiania mitów czy sensacyjnych wątków - które są może i poczytnie atrakcyjne, lecz nieraz dalekie od tzw. prawdy możliwie najsilniej zobiektywizowanej. Stanowi za to rzetelny, porządnie udokumentowany obraz kompozytora i jego dzieła, od genezy do rezonansu, z całą mocą należnej mu powagi, ale z lekkością języka powieści, która wciąga w historię postaci absolutnie dla polskiej kultury wyjątkowej.

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The Musical Language of Kazimierz Serocki in the Light of the Composer’s Self-Reflection

Iwona Lindstedt, „«Piszę tylko muzykę». Kazimierz Serocki”, Kraków: Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, 2020, ss. 651. ISBN 978-83-224-5142-7