Beginnings of Polish Musicology

Dr Małgorzata Sieradz focuses her research on the Polish musical culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, along with the history of music journals.

• Introduction I Socio-institutional contexts of the establishment of KwartalnikMuzyczny1. Panorama of Polish musicological journalism until1910 – Roman Chojnacki’s Młoda Muzyka and PrzeglądMuzyczny – WTM and Henryk Opieński’s KwartalnikMuzyczny (1911–14) – collaboration with Adolf Chybiński –clarification of the concept of a musicological quarterly –university series 2. Societies, associations, institutes of the interwarperiod: ‘Club of professional music press’ – Polish Societyfor Contemporary Music – Polish Musicological Society –Frederic Chopin Institute – Association of Early MusicLovers and Publishing Society of Polish Music as aninstitutional background to Kwartalnik Muzyczny 3. Music magazines of the interwar period: LwowskieWiadomości Muzyczne i Literackie, Poznań’s PrzeglądMuzyczny, Mateusz Gliński’s Muzyka – other environmentaland local musical magazines – controversies over the modelof an expert journal of the milieu II Hopes of Polish musicology – Kwartalnik Muzyczny in theyears 1928–19331. 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,Poznań, Warsaw) as addresses of the Kwartalnik –socio-scientific contexts: ideas about the functioningof the musicological environment – main topics ofinterest – other possibilities of publishing musicologicalstudies: academic publishing 3. Musicology among academic disciplines in the interwarperiod – systematics, discussions 4. Authors and subjects: historical-musical work – ‘technicalhistory’ (Chybiński) versus ‘live history’ (Jachimecki);contemporary music as a subject for research; musictheory and acoustics; philosophy, aesthetics, sociology;psychology, pedagogy; ethnography and musical folklore;themed editions 5. Muzyka Polska (1934–39) – Polski RocznikMuzykologiczny (1935, 1936) III Difficult years – Kwartalnik Muzyczny in the years1948–19501. New context of the functioning of the academic milieu andtheir publications – ‘bourgeoisie musicology’ Contents 72. Ideologisation of learning about music – conferences,conventions, congresses – Marxist musicology – PaństwowyInstytut Sztuki – gradual radicalisation in academia 3. An attempt to continue the formula of the magazine – AdolfChybiński and his collaborators (Zofia Lissa, TadeuszOchlewski, Józef M. Chomiński – scope of cooperationand organisation of editorial work) – new organisation ofpublishing work (PWM, PIS) 4. Authors and subjects as well as concepts, problems and workmethods – continuation of the pre-war work – around thecurrent issues of musical socialist realism – thematicprojects ConclusionPremises of the publishing crisis – change of generation –new publishing initiatives in the field of musicologicalperiodicals: Muzyka, Studia Muzykologiczne, RocznikChopinowski Afterword Abbreviations Bibliography Secondary literature