The Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in

ASSESSMENT: semester IX – pass/fail, semester X – M.A. Thesis
exam
Preparation and edition of M.A. Thesis paper.
Basic training
HISTORY OF MUSIC WITH LITERATURE
(C, Cn, E)
2 years, 3 hours a week
TYPE: group
TEACHERS: senior lecturer Jarosław Mianowski Ph.D., senior lecturer
Janina Tatarska Ph.D.
ASSESSMENT: semesters I-IV – exam
Apart from the chronological systematization of the music
creation, the class takes into consideration problematic systematization
and the history of musical notation, the history
of musical forms and genres, the history of instruments,
musical performance, the history of musical institutions, as
well as problems of music perception.
HISTORY OF THE 20 TH CENTURY MUSIC (C, Cn)
1 year, 3 hours a week
TYPE: group
TEACHERS: assistant professor Halina Lorkowska Ph.D.
ASSESSMENT: semester V – pass/fail, semester VI – exam
Development of music through the 20 th century. Broadening
the historical and musical knowledge by the music connections
with other artistic areas and social life. Presentation of
selected works – canon of the 20 th century musical literature
HISTORY OF THEORY OF MUSIC (C, Cn)
1 year, 1 hour a week
TYPE: group
TEACHERS: senior lecturer Teresa Brodniewicz
ASSESSMENT: semester VII – pass/fail, semester VIII – exam
History of notation – from the notation in the antique Greece
– through the notation of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
(alphabetical, neume, mensural, tablature) – to the score
printing (from the 16 th century) and attempts to reform the
system of notation in the 19 th and 20 th century. Development
of musical systems: Greek, modal, solmisation and tonal
(functional).
MUSIC AESTHETICS (C, Cn, T)
1 year (every second year), 2 hours a week
TYPE: group – 3 rd and 4 th year together
TEACHERS: assistant professor Hanna Kostrzewska Ph.D.
ASSESSMENT: semester V or VII – pass/fail, semester VI or VIII –
exam
Aesthetic and musical concepts in the historical perspective,
a value in musical work, the concept of expression, semiological
aspect of music, metamusical culture, postmodernism,
poetics of the open work.
DIPLOMA THESIS PROSEMINAR (C, Cn)
1 year, 1 hour a week
TYPE: group
TEACHERS: senior lecturer Janina Tatarska Ph.D.
ASSESSMENT: semester I – pass/fail, semester II – exam
General issues of the scholar methodology. Technique of writing
scholarly papers.
DIPLOMA THESIS SEMINAR (C, Cn)
1 year, 1 hour a week
TYPE: group
TEACHERS: senior lecturer Janina Tatarska Ph.D.
ASSESSMENT: semester VII – pass/fail, semester VIII – exam
Methods of historical, phenomenological, structural, systematic,
integral and sociological interpretation.
M.A. THESIS SEMINAR (E)
1 year, 1 hour a week
TYPE: group
TEACHERS: professor Małgorzata Berent-Kupsik
ASSESSMENT: semester VII – pass/fail, semester VIII – exam
General issues of scholarly methodology. Technique of writing
scholarly papers.
M.A. THESIS CONSULTATION (E)
1 year, 0,5 hour a week
TYPE: individual
TEACHERS: M.A. Thesis tutors
ASSESSMENT: semester IX – pass/fail, semester X – M.A. Thesis
exam
Preparation and edition of M.A. Thesis.
COMPUTER EDITION OF TEXTS AND SCORES
(C, Cn, T)
1 year, 1 hour a week
TYPE: group
TEACHERS: lecturer Jerzy Zieleniak
ASSESSMENT: semester VII-VIII – pass/fail
Rules of computer software mechanisms from the edition of
scores and texts to practical exercises.
PROPEDEUTICS OF COMPUTER MUSIC (Cn, T, E)
1 year, 1 hour a week (Cn, T); 1 semester, 1 hour a week (E)
TYPE: group
TEACHERS: lecturer Jerzy Zieleniak
ASSESSMENT: semester III-IV – pass/fail (Cn, T); semester VII –
pass/fail (E)
Basic knowledge of acoustics and electroacoustics. Core of
the digital recording and sound processing. Discussing the
categories of equipment and computer software existing in
the computer music studio.
STUDIO OF THE ELECTRONIC MUSIC (Cn, T)
1 year, 1 hour a week
TYPE: group
TEACHERS: associate professor Lidia Zielińska
ASSESSMENT: semester V – pass/fail, semester VI – exam
Musical and sound experiments in the 20 th century. Technology
of the electroacoustic music from the sine tone generators
to bio-feedback, notation of the electroacoustic music,
experiments with human voice and its electronic transformations.
New trends – soundscape, audio-art and other extramusical
genres.
JAZZ AND POPULAR MUSIC SEMINAR (C, Cn, T)
1 year, 1 hour a week
TYPE: group
TEACHERS: lecturer Zbigniew Łowżył
ASSESSMENT: semester VII – pass/fail, semester VIII – exam
Introduction to the issues of popular, jazz and improvised
music: differences of the music language in different styles,
harmonic, articulatory, arrangement and rhythmic specifics.
Methods of notation, genesis of the genres.
PERCUSSION (C, Cn)
1 year, 0,5 hour a week
TYPE: group
TEACHERS: professor Marian Rapczewski
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