Research

The University’s multi-directional research activ­ity is con­ducted both in the field of sci­ence (Inter­de­part­men­tal Chair of Music Psy­chol­ogy, Chair of Music Edu­ca­tion, Chair of The­ory of Music, Chair of Audi­ol­ogy and Pho­ni­atrics, Chair of Musi­cal Acoustics) and arts (instru­men­tal chairs, Chair of Com­po­si­tion, Chair of Con­duct­ing, Chair of Vocal Stud­ies, Interuni­ver­si­tary Unit of Aural Train­ing, Chair of Sound Engi­neer­ing) by eigh­teen chairs and three insti­tutes.
The sci­en­tific research activ­ity cov­ers prob­lems often over­looked by other research cen­tres, includ­ing the psy­chol­ogy and the­ory of music, the­ory of music ped­a­gogy and musi­cal upbring­ing, editor’s stud­ies of Fry­deryk Chopin’s body of work, instru­men­tal study, acoustics and musi­cal pho­ni­atrics. Pri­or­ity is given to research focus­ing on Pol­ish music (Chopin’s work) and the the­ory of 20th cen­tury music.
Other issues within the scope of the researchers’ inter­est are: musi­cal edu­ca­tion in Poland; works of com­posers and per­form­ers of early and con­tem­po­rary music; recep­tion and per­cep­tion of music; per­cep­tion of tone, pitch and loud­ness of sound; aural mem­ory; analy­sis of the human voice and res­pi­ra­tory organ; musi­cal psy­cho­met­rics and psy­chodi­ag­nos­tics; mod­ern means of gen­er­at­ing and trans­mit­ting sound; music teach­ers’ pro­fes­sional devel­op­ment; musi­cal devel­op­ment within the human life­time.
The sys­tem of con­tin­u­ous and inter­dis­ci­pli­nary research includes basic and applied works aimed at sup­port­ing the needs of musi­cal edu­ca­tion and the country’s cul­ture and econ­omy. These works are con­ducted in the fol­low­ing fields: study of fine arts, psy­chol­ogy, ped­a­gogy, med­ical sci­ences, engi­neer­ing and envi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion, soci­ol­ogy and phi­los­o­phy. The inter­dis­ci­pli­nary research teams are made up of musi­cians, music the­o­reti­cians, plas­tic artists, psy­chol­o­gists, ped­a­gogues, physi­cians, phys­i­ol­o­gists, physi­cists, engi­neers and IT spe­cial­ists. The results of their work, merg­ing such research fields as sci­ence, tech­nol­ogy and arts, have been received with much inter­est by sev­eral national and inter­na­tional research centres.

Research and Pub­lish­ing The Research Unit sched­ules and coor­di­nates research work in coop­er­a­tion with other FCUM units, raises research funds and man­ages research bud­gets. Mem­bers of the unit par­tic­i­pate in organ­is­ing sem­i­nars and con­fer­ences, col­lects data for assess­ment of aca­d­e­mic work and pre­pares research analy­ses. The Research Unit’s activ­i­ties also include co-implementation of research projects funded by the Euro­pean Union.

Research and Publishing

The sci­en­tific research activ­ity of the unit is reflected in the pub­li­ca­tion of mono­graph­i­cal works, hand­books, the­matic and prob­lem­atic works as well as pub­lish­ing series, includ­ing: W kręgu muzyki i myśli human­isty­cznej; Muzyka – Sztuka – Nauka; Dzieło muzy­czne. Dzieło sztuki; Biało­s­tockie Stu­dia Pedagogiczno-Muzyczne; Szkoła muzy­czna; Ksz­tałce­nie słuchu. Prezen­tacje – kon­frontacje; Topos nar­o­dowy w muzyce pol­skiej; Pieśń Pol­ska. Źródła – trady­cja – współczes­ność; Almanach kom­pozy­torów UMFC; Pier­wodruki utworów kom­pozy­torów pol­s­kich.

mgr Łucja Sala-Izdebska
Research Coor­di­na­tor
Room 408, tel. (0 22) 827 72 41 ext. 237
nauka@chopin.edu.pl

mgr Grażyna Draus
ECTS Coor­di­na­tor
Room 410, tel. (0 22) 827 72 41 ext. 337
ects@chopin.edu.pl

mgr Anna Krzysztofik
Pub­lish­ing Unit Sec­re­tary
Room 408, tel. (0 22) 827 72 41 ext. 309
wydawnictwa@chopin.edu.pl

dr Stanisław Czopow­icz
Editor-in-chief, Head of Research and Pub­lish­ing Unit
Room 410, tel. (0 22) 827 72 41 ext. 315
st.czopowicz@chopin.edu.pl