The Department of Music Theory

Founded in January 2015, the Department of Music Theory succeeded the Section of Music Theory (1993–2014), formed and chaired by dr Janina Tatarska within the then Department of Composition and Music Theory. Now part of the Faculty of Composition, Conducting, Vocal Studies, Music Theory and Artistic Education, the Department integrates music theoreticians, musicologists, historians and music psychologists.

Its objectives include: 

  • initiating and performing research works related with the development of music theory
  • supervising the staff’s own research 
  • providing the staff with assistance in their promotion
  • organizing academic and methodological conferences, symposia, workshops and lectures
  • supervising and contributing to the faculty academic annual “De musica commentarii”
  • supervising our students’ academic activity, including approval and  opinions on subjects of master and bachelor theses, and assistance in organizing student academic sessions
  • solving current problems related with academic and teaching activity pursued by the staff. 

Academic activity

The staff demonstrate particular interest in music of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Research concerns mainly Polish music, with special focus on the musical culture of Poznań, including the history and present of the composing milieu and its output. Studies refer to issues related to history, philosophy, psychology, aesthetics, and music theory. 

The Department is currently involved in the following research programs:

  1. Operas written by Polish composers of the “X generation”
  2. Works by Franz Xaver Scharwenka in the perspective of Polish and German musical culture
  3. Documentation of Feliks Nowowiejski’s Life and Works
  4. Poznań Composers. Analysis of their creative and aesthetic approaches in the context of stylistic changes.
  5. Ballet and Ballet critics in Poland
  6. Song of the Polish Legions in Italy – genesis, history, patriotic message

Members:

dr Julia Gołębiowska – Head

prof. dr hab. Hanna Kostrzewska
dr hab. Maria Koszewska-Wajdzik, prof. AMP
prof. AMP dr hab. Mikołaj Rykowski
dr hab. Stefan Drajewski
dr hab. Małgorzata Okupnik
dr Krzysztof Bździel
dr Iwona Fokt
dr Małgorzata Pawłowska
dr Ewa Rzanna-Szczepaniak
mgr Maria Majewska-Mocek

Honorary Members:
dr Janina Tatarska
mgr Teresa Brodniewicz
mgr Janusz Kempiński