The Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in

Preparing students for leading music and movement classes
in schools and amateur centres. Practical learning of Emile
Jaques-Dalcroze’s method and Polish folk dances.
CHORAL LITERATURE WITH PRACTICE
(CC, ME, CM)
1 year, 2 hours a week
TYPE: group
TEACHERS: professor Krystyna Domańska-Maćkowiak
ASSESSMENT: semester VII – pass/fail, semester VIII – exam
Learning and analysis of the most representative forms and
genres of choral as well as vocal and instrumental music for
different kinds of choirs with the special emphasis on Polish
music.
INSTRUMENTATION (CC, ME, CM)
1 year, 1 hour a week
TYPE: group and individual (lectures and classes)
TEACHERS: senior lecturer Mariusz Matuszewski
ASSESSMENT: semesters VII-VIII – pass/fail
Extending knowledge of musical instruments and their usage
during one’s own work in different ensembles (also nontypical).
Arranging piano pieces for different sets of instruments,
and transposition.
PROPEDEUTICS OF COMPOSITION
AND ARRANGEMENT (CC, ME, CM)
1 year, 1 hour a week (lectures and classes)
TYPE: group and individual
TEACHERS: professor Marek Jasiński, senior lecturer Mariusz
Matuszewski, Artur Kroschel M.A.
ASSESSMENT: semesters V-VI – pass/fail
Learning the basic composition rules of vocal, vocal and instrumental,
and instrumental pieces. Arranging vocal pieces
for instrumental ensembles, and vice versa.
CRITICISM AND LECTURE SEMINAR (CC, ME, CM)
1 year, 2 hours a week
TYPE: group
TEACHERS: assistant professor Halina Lorkowska Ph.D. (“Lecture
seminar”), senior lecturer Teresa Brodniewicz (“Criticism seminar”)
ASSESSMENT: semesters IX-X – exam
Preparing students for writing reviews of concerts, musical
theatres performances, records and professional books.
Acquiring skills of writing musical commentaries in different
forms and of different contents. Hosting concerts, recitals,
radio programmes, etc.
ORGAN (CM)
5 years, 1 hour a week
TYPE: individual
TEACHERS: associate professor Sławomir Kamiński, professor
Elżbieta Karolak, Waldemar Gawiejnowicz M.A.
ASSESSMENT: semesters I, III, V, VII, IX – pass/fail, semesters II,
IV, VI, VIII, X – exam
Playing European and Polish musical literature from the Renaissance
to the present day. Developing the playing technique,
knowledge of performance styles, independence of
thinking in interpretation of a work.
ORGAN SCIENCE (CM)
1 year, 1 hour a week
TYPE: group
TEACHERS: Waldemar Gawiejnowicz M.A.
ASSESSMENT: semester IX – pass/fail, semester X – exam
Introducing students to the construction and function of the
elements of pipe organ. Presenting sound mechanism,
tracker action, air system and casing. Musical functions of
the instrument are presented in connection with the fundamentals
of acoustics, mechanics, chemistry and materials
science.
COUNTERPOINT (CC, ME, CM)
1 year, 2 hours a week
TYPE: group
TEACHERS: Artur Kroschel M.A.
ASSESSMENT: semester V – pass/fail, semester VI – exam
Learning practical skills of creating different kinds of polyphonic
structures, using both independently composed musical
themes and known themes of classical, religious and
popular music.
LITURGY AND CHURCH LAW (CM)
1 year, 2 hours a week
TYPE: group
TEACHERS: senior lecturer Rev. Kazimierz Szachowicz
ASSESSMENT: semesters V-VI – pass/fail
History of the Catholic Church liturgics and presentation of
the adjustment changes of the priesthood in the historical
aspect. Church documents concerning liturgical music: discussion
and practical implementation in liturgical and paraliturgical
services.
SCHOOL INSTRUMENTS (CC, ME, CM)
1 year, 1 hour a week
TYPE: group
TEACHERS: senior lecturer Teresa Śnitko Ph.D.
ASSESSMENT: semesters V-VI – pass/fail
Developing skills of playing school instruments, possibilities
of using them during lessons and extra classes; and equipping
students with the selection of works for realization in
school education.
LITERARY TEXT INTERPRETATION WITH DICTION
(CC, ME, CM)
1 year, 1 hour a week
TYPE: group
TEACHERS: senior lecturer Zbigniew Grochal
ASSESSMENT: semesters III-IV – pass/fail
Sensitizing students to language values of the vocal work
and possibilities of using the text in creating artistic and
educational programmes. The role of technique, expression,
rhetoric in the interpretation of vocal texts (solo and choral).
Microphone practice.
PIANO IMPROVISATION (CC, ME)
1 year, 1 hour a week
TYPE: individual
TEACHERS: Rafał Renz M.A.
ASSESSMENT: semesters VII-VIII – pass/fail
Learning improvisation skills: developing and processing
short musical themes. Harmonizing melodic line and working
out the rhythmic and functional schemes characteristic
of a given musical style.
ORGAN IMPROVISATION
WITH LITURGICAL PLAYING (CM)
2,5 years, 1 hour a week
TYPE: individual
TEACHERS: Robert Hauptmann M.A., Waldemar Gawiejnowicz
M.A., Rajmund Pietrzak M.A.
ASSESSMENT: semester V-VIII – pass/fail, semester IX – exam
Developing skills of improvising to a given theme and to
one’s own melodies in different conventions and with the
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