Polish Music Journal

Los Angeles. ISSN 1521 – 6039

1 no. 1 (1998) | 1 no. 2 (1998) | 2 no. 1-2 (1999) | 3 no. 1 (2000) |  3 no. 2 (2000) | 4 no. 1 (2001) | 4 no. 2 (2001) | 5 no. 1 (2002) |  5 no. 2 (2002) | 6 no. 1 (2003) | 6 no. 2 (2003)

The Polish Music Journal is an academic, peer-reviewed publication devoted to musicological studies of Polish music and music in Poland. The term “Polish music” refers to music by Polish composers created in Poland and abroad, as well as to music by members of any of the ethnic minorities living within the historically-changeable borders of Poland.

The Journal‘s purpose is to provide a convenient, modern forum for publication of studies of the music that is not well known in the West. The editors wish to fill in the gap between the Polish researchers, publishing in their native language, and the English-speaking world. In order to make use of the capabilities of the electronic media, the Journal includes scanned musical examples (score excerpts), illustrations, abstracts, bibliographies, hypertext notes, reprints of historical documents and source material, and other features.

The Journal was published electronically by the Polish Music Center at the University of Southern California from 1998-2003, with articles evaluated by an international group of experts in Polish music and prepared by the editorial offices at the Polish Music Center. The creation of the Journal in 1998 was motivated by a necessity to expand the number and quality of publication venues for research on Polish music and creating a presentation forum for papers awarded prizes in the annual research competition, Stefan and Wanda Wilk Prizes for Research in Polish Music (organized by the PMC since 1985). The Journal is listed in over 200 library catalogs, including WorldCat, various OCLC listings, the catalogue of the Library of Congress, etc. Abstracts for the articles are included in the online database, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature. 

Vol. 1, No. 1, Summer 1998:
WILK ESSAY PRIZES 1997

Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter 1998:
FROM THE 10TH TO THE 20TH CENTURY

Vol. 2, No. 1-2, Summer-Winter 1999:
THE CHOPIN YEAR (I) AND WILK PRIZES 1998

Vol. 3, No. 1, Summer 2000:
THE CHOPIN YEAR (II): TRANSFORMATIONS OF CHOPIN’S STYLE

Vol. 3, No. 2, Winter 2000:
CHOPIN AND LUTOSŁAWSKI

Vol. 4, No. 1, Summer 2001:
PADEREWSKI AND POLISH ÉMIGRÉS TO AMERICA

Vol. 4, No. 2, Winter 2001:
THE UNKNOWN PADEREWSKI

Vol. 5, No. 1, Summer 2002:
BACEWICZ AND WILK PRIZES 2001

Vol. 5, No. 2, Winter 2002:
ZYGMUNT STOJOWSKI AND HIS TIMES

Vol. 6, No. 1, Summer 2003:
POLISH JEWISH MUSIC — SOURCES AND STUDIES

Vol. 6, No. 2, Summer 2003:
HENRYK MIKOŁAJ GÓRECKI

1998-2000 (vols. 1-3)

Editor:

Dr. Maria Anna Harley, Los Angeles. U.S.A. Assistant Professor of Music History and Literature, Thornton School of Music, and S. & W. Wilk Director of the Polish Music Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Specialist in the music of the 20th-century, music aesthetics, Polish music, women composers. Author of over thirty scholarly articles (on Andriessen, Bacewicz, Bartók, Brant, Chopin, Górecki, Lutosławski, Ptaszyńska, Xenakis, musical space, etc.), editor of two books (After Chopin: Essays in Polish Music, The Music of Louis Andriessen.

Editorial Board:

Prof. Maciej Gołąb, Warsaw, Poland. Associate Professor of musicology, Institute of Musicology, University of Warsaw, Poland; professor of musicology, University of Wrocław, Poland. Specialist in Polish music of the 19th and the 20th centuries, especially Chopin, Koffler, also Webern and 12-tone music. Author of four books and numerous articles, book chapters. General Editor, Polish Musicological Quarterly, Muzyka, Institute of Fine Arts, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.

Dr. Martina Homma, Cologne, Germany. General Editor and Owner, Bela Verlag Music Publisher, Cologne, Germany. Specialist in Polish music after World War II, sketch studies and gender issues; Chair of ISCM Cologne section and of Frau Musica (nova). In 1998/99 Visiting Professor of musicology at the University of Siegen, Germany.

Prof. Adrian Thomas, Cardiff, U.K. Professor of Music, Cardiff University of Wales, U.K. Composer and musicologist, author of pioneering studies of Górecki and Polish music of the 20th century, one of the main contributors of “Polish music” entries to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 7th ed.

Dr. Elżbieta Witkowska Zaremba, Warsaw, Poland. Associate Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, Polish Academy of Sciences. With a background in classic philology and musicology, she is a specialist in the history of medieval music theory, music notation, and Johannes de Muris. Member of Editorial Board, Polish Musicological Quarterly, Muzyka.

Staff and Collaborators:

Wanda Wilk, PMRC Director Emerita, Translator.
Joanna Niżyńska, Translator (1999).
Marcin Depinski, USC student. Web design.
Blanka Sobus, USC student. Editorial Assistant (2000).
Magdalena Bedernik, USC student. Editorial Assistant (1999).
Anne Desler, USC doctoral student of musicology. Editorial Assistant (1998).
Brian Harlan, USC doctoral student of musicology. Editorial Assistant (1998).

2001-2002 (vols. 4-5)

Editor:

Dr. Maja Trochimczyk [formerly: Maria Anna Harley], Los Angeles. U.S.A. Assistant Professor of Music History and Literature, Thornton School of Music, and S. & W. Wilk Director of the Polish Music Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Specialist in the music of the 20th-century, music aesthetics, Polish music, women composers. Author of over thirty scholarly articles (on Andriessen, Bacewicz, Bartók, Brant, Chopin, Górecki, Lutosławski, Ptaszyńska, Xenakis, musical space, etc.), editor of two books (After Chopin: Essays in Polish Music, The Music of Louis Andriessen).

Editorial Board:

Prof. Maciej Gołąb, Warsaw, Poland. Associate Professor of musicology, Institute of Musicology, University of Warsaw, Poland; professor of musicology, University of Wrocław, Poland. Specialist in Polish music of the 19th and the 20th centuries, especially Chopin, Koffler, also Webern and 12-tone music. Author of four books and numerous articles, book chapters. General Editor, Polish Musicological Quarterly, Muzyka, Institute of Fine Arts, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.

Dr. Martina Homma, Cologne, Germany. General Editor and Owner, Bela Verlag Music Publisher, Cologne, Germany. Specialist in Polish music after World War II, sketch studies and gender issues; Chair of ISCM Cologne section and of Frau Musica (nova). In 1998/99 Visiting Professor of musicology at the University of Siegen, Germany.

Prof. Jeffrey Kallberg, Philadelphia, U.S. Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. Specialist in music of the 19th and 20th centuries, editorial theory, critical theory, and gender studies. Recipient of many awards, the leading American expert on Chopin, General Editor of New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism (Cambridge University Press).

Dr. Halina Goldberg is an Assistant Professor at University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa who previously taught at Indiana University, Bloomington. She studied musicology at the Graduate School of the City University of New York (disseration on Musical Life in Warsaw During Chopin’s Youth, 1810-1830 , of 1997, forthcoming as Music in Chopin’s Warsaw from Oxford University Press). Winner of the 1998 Wilk Prize for Research in Polish Music (professional category).

Prof. Adrian Thomas, Cardiff, U.K. Professor of Music, Cardiff University of Wales, U.K. Composer and musicologist, author of pioneering studies of Górecki and Polish music of the 20th century, one of the main contributors of “Polish music” entries to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 7th ed.

Dr. Elżbieta Witkowska Zaremba; Warsaw, Poland. Associate Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, Polish Academy of Sciences. With a background in classic philology and musicology, she is a specialist in the history of medieval music theory, music notation, and Johannes de Muris. Member of Editorial Board, Polish Musicological Quarterly, Muzyka.

Staff and Collaborators:

Dr. Linda Schubert, Assistant Editor (1999-2002).
Marek Żebrowski, Translator (2002).
Michael Bedernik, USC student. Editorial Assistant (2002).

2003 (vol. 6)

Editor:

Dr. Maja Trochimczyk [formerly: Maria Anna Harley], Los Angeles. U.S.A. Assistant Professor of Music History and Literature, Thornton School of Music, and Stefan and Wanda Wilk Director of the Polish Music Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Specialist in the music of the 20th-century, music aesthetics, Polish music, women composers. Author of over thirty scholarly articles and book chapters (on Andriessen, Bacewicz, Bartók, Brant, Chopin, Górecki, Lutosławski, Ptaszyńska, Xenakis, musical space, etc.), editor of two books (After Chopin: Essays in Polish Music, The Music of Louis Andriessen), editor-in-chief of Polish Music History Series.

Editorial Board:

Dr. Halina Goldberg is an Assistant Professor at Indiana University She studied musicology at the Graduate School of the City University of New York (disseration on Musical Life in Warsaw During Chopin’s Youth, 1810-1830 , of 1997, forthcoming as Music in Chopin’s Warsaw from Oxford University Press). Winner of the 1998 Wilk Prize for Research in Polish Music (professional category). Editor of The Age of Chopin: Interdisciplinary Inquiries (Indiana University Press, forthcoming in 2004).

Prof. Maciej Gołąb, Warsaw, Poland. Associate Professor of musicology, Institute of Musicology, University of Warsaw, Poland; professor of musicology, University of Wrocław, Poland. Specialist in Polish music of the 19th and the 20th centuries, especially Chopin, Koffler, also Webern and 12-tone music. Author of four books and numerous articles, book chapters. General Editor, Polish Musicological Quarterly, Muzyka, Institute of Fine Arts, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.

Dr. Martina Homma, Cologne, Germany. General Editor and Owner, Bela Verlag Music Publisher, Cologne, Germany. Specialist in Polish music after World War II, sketch studies and gender issues; Chair of ISCM Cologne section and of Frau Musica (nova). In 1998/99 Visiting Professor of musicology at the University of Siegen, Germany.

Prof. Jeffrey Kallberg, Philadelphia, U.S. Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. Specialist in music of the 19th and 20th centuries, editorial theory, critical theory, and gender studies. Recipient of many awards, the leading American expert on Chopin, General Editor of New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism (Cambridge University Press).

Dr. Linda Schubert is a specialist in film music studies with a doctorate from the University of Michigan (1994). She is the author of Soundtracking the Past: Early Music and its Representations in Selected History Films(book based on her Ph.D. dissertation, forthcoming) and numerous studies of film music, including the oevre of Henryk Vars. She is Book Reviews Editor and a member of the Editorial Board of Film Music Journal, as well as active member of American Musicological Society, Society for American Music and Film Music Society.

Prof. Adrian Thomas, Cardiff, U.K. Professor of Music, Cardiff University of Wales, U.K. Composer and musicologist, author of pioneering studies of Górecki and Polish music of the 20th century, one of the main contributors of “Polish music” entries to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 7th ed. Wilk Essay Prize Winner (2001), Wilk Book Prize Winner (2002).

Dr. Elżbieta Witkowska Zaremba; Warsaw, Poland. Associate Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, Polish Academy of Sciences. With a background in classic philology and musicology, she is a specialist in the history of medieval music theory, music notation, and Johannes de Muris. Member of Editorial Board, Polish Musicological Quarterly, Muzyka.

Staff:

Krysta Close, Editorial Assistant and Translator.