CHAIR OF THEORY OF MUSIC

• Com­po­si­tion, Con­duct­ing and The­ory of Music
  • Insti­tute of Com­po­si­tion and Sym­phonic Conducting:
  • Chair of Composition
  • Chair of Conducting
  • Insti­tute of Musi­cal Sciences:
  • Chair of The­ory of Music
  • Chair of Humanities

The Chair of The­ory of Music has been a part of the Depart­ment of Com­po­si­tion, Con­duct­ing and The­ory of Music since 1957. At first it had two sep­a­rate areas of activ­ity: method­ol­ogy of the­o­ret­i­cal sub­jects and har­mony and coun­ter­point (the two basic branches of the­ory of music at the time). Later on these two areas were merged organ­i­sa­tion­ally and the­mat­i­cally.

The Chair is respon­si­ble for the teach­ing of sub­jects which have direct bear­ing on the mas­tery of tra­di­tional and con­tem­po­rary tech­niques of com­po­si­tion. Teach­ing is based on the sound real­i­sa­tion of the under­ly­ing norms and prin­ci­ples of these tech­niques (har­mony, coun­ter­point, aural train­ing, instru­men­ta­tion, score read­ing, con­tem­po­rary tech­niques of com­po­si­tion), historically-oriented sub­jects taught in the form of lec­tures, sem­i­nars and train­ing classes (analy­sis of musi­cal arte­facts from dif­fer­ent his­tor­i­cal peri­ods, his­tory of musi­cal forms, his­tory of the­ory of music, musi­cal styles, mono­graphic lec­tures) and method (research tech­nol­ogy, dis­ser­ta­tion sem­i­nar). A num­ber of sub­jects are com­pul­sory: human­is­tic sub­jects (his­tory of phi­los­o­phy, music aes­thet­ics), ped­a­gogy, sem­i­nar on music review­ing, for­eign lan­guages. Stu­dents can also choose a num­ber of optional sub­jects (spe­cial har­mony, spe­cial solfeg­gio, music eth­nol­ogy, music pale­og­ra­phy, elec­troa­coustic music, jazz and light music, piano impro­vi­sa­tion, selected instru­ment). Music the­ory grad­u­ates are qual­i­fied for research work, teach­ing of the­o­ret­i­cal sub­jects at music schools of var­i­ous lev­els, musi­cal jour­nal­ism, radio and TV broad­cast­ing, organ­i­sa­tion of music life etc.

Mem­bers of the Chair of The­ory of Music con­duct research in accor­dance with their per­sonal inter­ests and present papers at sci­en­tific sym­posia and con­fer­ences. The Chair has three lab­o­ra­to­ries: Organ Stud­ies, Har­mony and Coun­ter­point. Plans have been made to develop fur­ther lab­o­ra­to­ries: Pol­ish Music Cul­ture, Phi­los­o­phy of Music and Music Hermeneu­tics. The Chair has a tra­di­tion of open meet­ings and spe­cial­ist sem­i­nars at which lec­tures are held by Chair mem­bers and invited guests.

The fol­low­ing per­sons have headed the Chair of The­ory of Music: Pro­fes­sor Kaz­imierz Siko­rski, Pro­fes­sor Ste­fan Śledz­iński, Pro­fes­sor Witold Rudz­iński, Dr Maciej Zalewski, Dr Jad­wiga Zabłocka, Pro­fes­sor Lud­wik Bielawski, Pro­fes­sor Mar­ian Borkowski, Maria Piotrowska, Jerzy Gołos and Woj­ciech Nowik. Mem­bers of the Chair of The­ory of Music also con­duct lec­tures and classes for other depart­ments of the FCUM.

Chair Mem­bers

Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor Katarzyna Szymańska-Stułka, PhD, act­ing Head, e-mail: szymanska@chopin.edu.pl
Pro­fes­sor Katarzyna Dadak-Kozicka, PhD Hab.
Pro­fes­sor Stanisław Dąbek, PhD Hab., e-mail: dabeks@wp.pl
Pro­fes­sor Danuta Szlagowska, PhD, Hab., e-mail: dszlagowska@autograf.pl
Pro­fes­sor Walen­tyna Węgrzyn-Klisowska, PhD, e-mail: gemel@amuz.wroc.pl
Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor Mał­gorzata Waszak, PhD, e-mail: malgorzata.waszak@gmail.com

Co-workers

Woj­ciech Nowik, PhD Hab., e-mail: bartar11@op.pl
Krzysztof Heer­ing, PhD
Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor Tomasz Bara­nowski
Senior Lec­turer Stanisław Olędzki
Lec­turer Krystyna Ambrożek
Lec­turer Ewa Huszcza