Professor Izabela Targońska

She was born in War­saw. She began to learn the piano when she was four. When she was six she began to study at a pri­mary music school in War­saw headed by Lech Mik­laszewski, a great teacher and prop­a­ga­tor of children’s music. She grad­u­ated from the Fry­deryk Chopin Pri­mary Music School no. 2 in War­saw, M. Dąbrowska’s piano class, in 1960. Pro­fes­sor Irena Szenic, who taught music the­ory, directly con­tributed to Izabela Targońska’s later involve­ment with this field of music stud­ies. Izabela Tar­gońska decided to con­tinue her piano stud­ies at sec­ondary music school and also to take a course in music the­ory which was avail­able by that time. She grad­u­ated with hon­ours from the F. Chopin Sec­ondary Music School in 1965. At the same time she pur­sued her gen­eral edu­ca­tion at R. Traugutt High School no. 45 in War­saw where she grad­u­ated in 1964.

Izabela Tar­gońska stud­ied at the Fry­deryk Chopin Acad­emy of Music in War­saw where she grad­u­ated from Depart­ment 1, The­ory of Music Unit in 1970 and grad­u­ated the Com­po­si­tion Unit in 1971. In 1971 she began to work at the Acad­emy as an assis­tant at the Depart­ment of Com­po­si­tion, Con­duct­ing and The­ory of Music whilst she con­tin­ued to study at the Depart­ment of Piano, Harp­si­chord and Organ, the Instru­men­tal Depart­ment and the Sound Engi­neer­ing Department.

In 1993, after her first-degree post­grad­u­ate stud­ies at the Cra­cow Acad­emy of Music, she obtained her first-degree qual­i­fi­ca­tions in The­ory of Music for her the­sis Musi­cal Ear Train­ing for Con­duc­tors and Sound Engi­neers, con­ferred by pro­fes­sor Lud­wik Bielawski. She obtained her second-degree qual­i­fi­ca­tions at that same col­lege in 1994 for her the­sis Pro­grammed Method of Vocal Note Read­ing, Atonal Sys­tem. She was now a fully qual­i­fied Music Theorist.

Through­out her research and teach­ing career she reg­u­larly co-operated with the Insti­tute of Music Ped­a­gogy and the Ped­a­gogic Cen­tre for Artis­tic Edu­ca­tion in her work on music tests and syl­labuses for music schools. She also con­ducted method classes for stu­dents at the Music The­ory Depart­ment and demon­stra­tion lessons for pri­mary and sec­ondary music schools and for music col­lege pro­fes­sors from Poland, Hun­gary, Colum­bia, Viet­nam, Rus­sia and France. In response to invi­ta­tions from var­i­ous aca­d­e­mic cen­tres in Poland she has given many lec­tures and con­ducted many char­ter sem­i­nars on ear training.

Sim­i­lar sem­i­nars have also been organ­ised by the Cen­tre for Artis­tic Edu­ca­tion at the Min­istry of Cul­ture and Fine Arts. She is also asked to be a mem­ber com­mit­tees which exam­ine and cer­tify teach­ers who want to advance in their career.

She has taken active part in all the sym­posia organ­ised by the Inter­col­lege Depart­ment of Ear Train­ing at the AMFC which she her­self helped to organ­ise. She has been respon­si­ble for the pub­li­ca­tion of all the pro­ceed­ings of these sym­posia at the Depart­ment of Ear Train­ing and FCAM research bul­letins. She has writ­ten many aca­d­e­mic text­books and hand­books.
Izabela Tar­gońska received the fol­low­ing awards for her research and teaching:

• 1978 — award of the Rec­tor of the State Music Col­lege for her research contributions
• 1979 — 3^rd level award of the Min­istry of Cul­ture and Fine Arts for out­stand­ing achieve­ment in research and teaching
• 1980 — award of the Rec­tor of the State Music Col­lege for research and teach­ing in 1978–1979
• 1985 — 2^nd level team award of the Rec­tor of the AMFC for out­stand­ing achieve­ment in research and teaching
• 1988 — 2^nd level award of the Rec­tor of the AMFC for out­stand­ing achieve­ment in teach­ing and education
• 1991 — 2^nd level team award of the Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and Fine Arts for her work on the F. Flis experiment
• 1993 — award of the Rec­tor of the AMFC pre­sented on the 220th anniver­sary of the Com­mis­sion of National Edu­ca­tion for out­stand­ing pro­fes­sional achievement
• 1995 — 1^st level award of the Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and Fine Arts

Major pub­li­ca­tions

Hand­books

• Exer­cises in music mem­ory and imag­i­na­tion. In: Z. Peret-Ziemlańska (ed.), Exer­cises in musi­cal ear self-training. Warszawa, WSiP 1980.
• Exer­cises in musi­cal ear train­ing. Appen­dix with exer­cise and exam­i­na­tion sheets for a three-year course. Warszawa, AMFC 1988.
• Man­ual for vocal note read­ing with the accom­pa­ni­ment of a sound record­ing. Warszawa, AMFC 1990 (for inter­nal use at the ear train­ing unit only).
• Musi­cal ear train­ing for con­duc­tors and sound engi­neers. Hand­book with music record­ings for the aural analy­sis of orches­tra pieces. Part I — Sym­phonic dic­ta­tion; Part II — Score cor­rec­tion. The record­ings were pro­duced at the AMFC Stu­dio S1. First edi­tion: man­ual plus 3 audio cas­settes 1991; Sec­ond edi­tion: Man­ual plus 3 CDs. Warszawa, AMFC 2001.
• Vocal note read­ing in the atonal sys­tem, pro­grammed method. Self-instruction man­ual with music record­ings for into­na­tion train­ing. First edi­tion: man­ual plus 8 audio cas­settes 1993; Sec­ond edi­tion: man­ual plus 9 CDs. Warszawa, AMFC 2001.
• Foun­da­tions of error cor­rec­tion. Part I — teacher’s man­ual; Part II — student’s man­ual. Warszawa, AMFC 1998.
• Music mem­ory train­ing. Man­ual and 4 CDs for self-training in mem­ory. Warszawa, CEA 1999. Recorded for AMFC by DUX 1998.
• Musi­cal ear train­ing in har­mony. Man­ual and music record­ings (in preparation).

Arti­cles

• Musi­cal ear train­ing for con­duc­tors in the con­text of the require­ments of con­tem­po­rary music — arti­cle in the Pro­fes­sor Witold Rudz­iński Jubilee Book. AMFC Research Bul­letin no. 25, Warszawa.
• Musi­cal ear train­ing for sound engi­neers. Pro­ceed­ings VII Sym­po­sium on Ton­meis­ter­ing and Sound Engi­neer­ing. Warszawa, AMFC 1995.
• On into­na­tion and the into­na­tion ear. AMFC Research Bul­letin no. 41, Warszawa 1998.
• Music ear train­ing at the Instru­men­tal Depart­ment. Char­ter pro­gram (3-year course). Warszawa, AMFC 2000.

Lec­tures

• Music mem­ory train­ing: Kosza­lin, 1995; Wałbrzych, 1996; Łódź, 1999, 2000; Prze­myśl, 2000, Wrocław, 2000; Warszawa, 2000.
• Music mem­ory train­ing for sound engi­neers. Warszawa, 1995.
• Foun­da­tions of error cor­rec­tion. Warszawa 1995; Łódź, 1998, Wrocław, 2000.
• Prepar­ing the rel­a­tive music ear for the per­cep­tion of har­monic struc­tures. Wałbrzych, 1996.
• On into­na­tion and the into­na­tion ear. Warszawa, 1997.
• Musi­cal ear train­ing at the AMFC Instru­men­tal Depart­ment. Char­ter pro­gram. Warszawa, 1999.
• The lim­its and poten­tial of the musi­cal ear in music per­cep­tion. Wrocław 2000, Warszawa, 2000.
• Har­monic ear train­ing. Łódź, 2001.
• Pre­cise solfa — on the basic of the teacher’s own man­ual Pro­grammed method … , Wrocław, 2001.
• The art of har­monic per­cep­tion — the method of com­par­a­tive har­monic analy­ses for stu­dents of com­po­si­tion and not only .., Wrocław, 2001; Warszawa, 2001.