Translation of: Krzysztof Penderecki i jego muzyka. - Inhalt: Listening of Penderecki: - 1. The elementary force; - 2. Into the depth, to the top, to the brim; - 3. Between sacrum and profanum; - 4. The thick black line; - 5. Rhetorical gesture; - 6. Pure play; - 7. Clashing contrasts; - 8. Obsessions; - 9. Through word, through sound and beyond sound. - WORD AND TONE IN PENDERECKI'S MUSIC - 1. The ideas and the man - here and now; - 2. Structures and sounds; - 3. Expression and meaning; - 4. Genres and styles; - 5. Messages and senses of the oeuvre. - PENDERECKI: 'TO ABSORB ALL THAT HAS BEEN..' - A. The contemporary work in the perspective of music of the past; - 1. Cantus prius factus in cantum novum: music within music; - 2. Cantus secundum cantum: music according to music; - 3. Cantus novus de canti omnigenae: music beyond music; - B. The Composer in a symbolic world; 1. Music as speech; 2. The musical work and its envoi. - PENDERECKI'S DIALOGUES AND GAMES WITH TIME AND PLACE ON THE EARTH. - 1. Roots and 'the time before time'; - 2. The Effective entry, 1958-60: the phase of Psalms of David; - 3. Time of trials and experiments, 1960-66: the phase of Threnody; - 4. The Breakthrough and the first synthesis, 1965-71: the phase of the Passion; - 5. The Intermediate period: years of sublimation, 1971-75: the phase of Magnificat; - 6. Time of dialogue with the rediscovered past, 1976-85: the phase of Paradise Lost; - 7. At the threshold of a new synthesis, 1985-93: the phase of the Black Mask; - 8. Second wind, 1994-2003: the phase of Credo. - APPENDIX: SELECTED DOCUMENTATION - A. KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI'S WORKS LIST; I. Instrumental music; II. Vocal and vocal-instrumental music; III. Theatre and illustrative music. B. A SELECTION OF TEXTS BY POLISH AUTHORS ON KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI'S WORK I. Statements by the composer: interviews; - II. Synthetic and panoramic studies. Collections, general surveys; - III. Detailed aspects and relationships; - IV. Interpretation [u.a.]
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The text collected here - somewhat exaggeratedly described as assays - have been created for various purposes, in various circumstances and various times. This should account for their differences of character and perspective. The present edition of Krzysztof Penderecki and His Music. Four Essays. has been extended with information on works written between 1993 and 2003 and with studies by Polish authors of the same period. [Verlagsangabe]
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