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POLISH MUSIC BOOKS IN ENGLISH

Introduction by Wanda Wilk List of Books


INTRODUCTION

For half a century the traditional sources of information on Polish music history were limited to Marguerite Walaux's forty-four pages of The National Music of Poland and Ethel Rayson's Polish Music and Chopin, Its Laureate of sixty-four pages, both published in England in 1916. After World War II, the first publication in English about Polish music history came out of Great Britain in the form of a thirty-two booklet by Jerzy Sulikowski entitled Polish Music and published by the Polish Publications Committee in 1944. This was followed by another informative, but brief twenty-page pamphlet, Musical Life in Poland Today by Janusz Urbański, printed by the Polish Cultural Institute in London in 1953.

The first book in English published in Poland appeared in 1955; it was written by Zofia Lissa and stresses a Marxist view of music history. Three other excellent books followed: Stefan Jarociński's Polish Music (1963), Ludwik Erhardt's Music in Poland (1975) and An Outline History of Polish Music (1979) edited by the late Tadeusz Ochlewski.

There have been many biographies written about Chopin and Paderewski in English, but as a rule, the general histories and textbooks on music had limited information about Polish composers to one sentence or not at all. Ludwik Erhardt states that the first breach was made by the fifth edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians in 1954, whose nine volumes allotted a considerable amount of material on Polish music. Since then, the Larousse Encyclopedia of Music (English edition, 1971) has also provided an ample amount of information.

After World War II the main music publisher was the Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne (PWM). Many of the books published appeared with introductions or chapter summaries in English. Some smaller pamphlets were published in five languages. The governmental agency Interpress devoted itself to promoting various aspects of Polish culture in books issued in several languages (e.g. an excellent book on Szymanowski edited by Zdzisław Sierpiński).

Various institutions and societies also published books or series. Among them:

  • Polskie Wydawnictwo Naukowe, PWN (Polish Scientific Publishers);
  • Warszawskie Towarzystwo Muzyczne (Warsaw Music Society);
  • Polskie Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze (Polish Ethnographic Society) - 80 volumes of the Complete Works of the folklorist Oskar Kolberg;
  • ISPAN - Instytut Sztuki Państwowej Akademii Nauk (Institute of the Arts of the State Academy of Sciences).
  • TiFC Towarzystwo im. Fryderyka Chopina (Frederic Chopin Society).

After the transformation of the Polish political system and the introduction of free market economy in 1989, PWM has reduced its output of serious music studies and monographs focussing instead on more profitable publications. The void was filled in by new, smaller and more efficient publishing houses, such as Musica Iagellonica, headed by Prof. Zygmunt Szwejkowski at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (for their address see our list of Book Publishers. This publisher issues books in Polish; in 1995 its name became the title of a new scholary journal with articles about Polish music in English, Musica Iagellonica. Another new publishing house in Poland is the Sutkowski Edition in Warsaw, which embarked upon a project called Polish Music History Series (ed. Stefan Sutkowski) and consisting of scholarly monographs on various aspects of Polish musical life. These books are published in English.

LIST OF BOOKS AT PMC

BOOKS IN ENGLISH AT PMC

EDITED VOLUMES BY MANY AUTHORS:

  • An Outline History of Polish Music. OCHLEWSKI, Tadeusz, ed. ML 297 D9513 1979 Warsaw, Interpress, 1979 198p.

  • After Chopin: Essays in Polish Music TROCHIMCZYK, Maja, ed. Los Angeles: Polish Music Center, 2000. Polish Music History Series No. 6. 320 p.

  • The Cambridge Companion to Chopin. SAMSON, Jim, ed. OCLC Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992 341p

  • Chopin Studies; 2,4,5. CHECHLIŃSKA, Zofia; CHODKOWSKI, Andrzej; MYCIELSKI, Zygmunt; NOWIK, Wojciech; STESZEWSKI, Jan, ed. OCLC Warsaw, Frederic Chopin Society, 1994 171p.;329p.,304p.

  • Chopin Studies; 2,4,5 Classical Music and it's Origins. OCLC Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1989 316p. Heritage of Music v.1

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  • Dance Ritual and Music. DĄBROWSKA, Grażyna; BIELAWSKI, Ludwik, ed. OCLC Warsaw, Instytut Sztuki PAN, 1995 246p.

  • The Jews in Poland; vol.1. PALUCH, Andrzej K., ed. OCLC Cracow, Research Center on Jewish History and Culture in Poland, 1992 507p.

  • The Museum of the Jewish Historical Isntitute: Arts and crafts. PIĄTKOWSKA, Renata; SIERAMSKA, Magdalena; BRZEWSKA, Iwona; POLUJAN, Katarzyna, ed. OCLC Warszawa, AURIGA, 1995 Art, Jewish Music in the Twentieth Century. OCLC Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1989 318p. Heritage of Music v.4

  • Musica Iagellonica; vol.1. SZWEYKOWSKI, Zygmunt M., ed. OCLC Kraków, Musica Iagellonica, 1995 198p.

  • Musica Iagellonica; vol.2. SZWEYKOWSKI, Zygmunt M., ed. OCLC Kraków, Musica Iagellonica, 1997 294p.

  • The Nineteenth-Century Legacy. OCLC Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1989 316p. Heritage of Music v.3

  • Outline History of Polish Culture. DK 4110 O94 1984 Warsaw, Interpress, 1984 383p., 97p. of plates, illus

  • Polish Americans in California. OCLC Los Angeles, PAHA, 1978 372p. 1827-1977 Who is who

  • Polish Music, JAROCIŃSKI, Stefan, editor. ML 297 J28 Warsaw, PWN, 1965 viii, 327 p., ill., facsims., music, ports.

  • Polish Musicological Studies. CHECHLIŃSKA, Zofia; STESZEWSKI, Jan, ed. ML 5 P644 v.1, Kraków, PWM, 1977 350, v.1, 2 illus.

  • Polish Perspectives. OCLC Warsaw, Perspectives, 1973 83p.

  • Research Guide to Polish Social Sciences and Humanities. MASŁOWSKA, Barbara, ed. H 62.5 P6 R47 Warsaw, National Center for Scientific, Technical and Economic Information, 1979 799 p.

  • The Romantic Era. OCLC 1 Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1989 316p. Heritage of Music v.2

  • Szymanowski and the Europe of His Time, Warsaw 21-26 April, 1997: Polish Radio Music Festival. MARKOWSKA, Elżbieta, ed. OCLC Warszawa, 1997 171p.

    INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS:

  • ABRAHAM, Gerald, Essays on Russian and East European Music. OCLC Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1985 193p.

  • ABRAHAM, Gerald, Slavonic and Romantic Music. ML 60 A215 S6 New York, St. Martin's Press, 1968 360p.

  • ABRAHAM, Gerald. Essays on Russian and East European Music.New York: Oxford University Press, 1985 (with essays about Polish opera, symphony, song and Moniuszko).

  • AEOLIAN CO. ed., The Metrostyle. Catalog of Music for Pianola.ML 158 A4 New York, The Aeolian Company, 1903 82p., front(port.)

    Pianola - catalog of classical music available on music-rolls for self-playing instrument

  • ANONYMOUS, O Smoku Wawelskim i królewnie Wandzie. The Wawel Dragon and Queen Wanda. GR 195 W49 Lodz, KF/STP, 1974 36p.

  • ANSTRUTHER, F.C, Old Polish Legends. OCLC New York, Hippocrene Books, Inc. 1991 66p.

  • ATWOOD, William G., Fryderyk Chopin, Pianist from Warsaw. OCLC New York, Columbia University Press, 1987 305p.

  • ATWOOD, William G. Fryderyk Chopin. Pianist from Warsaw.

  • BASTGEN, Z., Let's Learn Polish. PG 6112 B3 1967 Warsaw, Wiedza Powszechna, 1967 275p. ill.

  • BENET, Sula , Song, Dance and Customs of Peasant Poland. DK 411 B4 1951z New York, Roy, 1951 247p., 16p. of plates, ill.

  • BLEJWAS, Stanislaus A., Choral Nationalism: A History of the Polish Singers Alliance in America 1888-1998. OCLC, manuscript (typescript), 1999

  • BLOM, Eric, Everyman's Dictionary of Music. OCLC St. Martin's Press, 1971 793p. Music - dictionaries

  • BOBAK, Anna Helena, The Trumpet Call from Poland. DK 4170 B62 1984 FPA, 1984 33 p., ill.

  • BOURNIQUEL, Camille, Chopin. ML 410 C54 B732 New York Grove Press, 1986 192 p. illus. Evergreen profile book, 8

  • BROUGH, Delma, Polish Seventeenth-Century Church Music. ML 2951 P6 B76 1989 New York, Garland Pub., 1989,viii, 387p., Outstanding dissertations in music from British uni.

  • BROUGH, Delma. Polish Seventeenth-Century Church Music.New York: Garland, 1989.

  • BUDREWICZ, Olgierd, Introduction to Poland. DK 4040 B8 1985 Rev. American ed. AIPC, 1985 216 p., illus. (some col.) The Polish Heritage Series

  • BUDREWICZ, Olgierd, The Lived Among us: Polish Judaica. OCLC Warszawa, Polish Tourist Information Center

  • BYLANDER, Cynthia E., The Warsaw Autumn, International Festival of Contemporary Music, 1956-1961: its goals, structures, programs, and people. OCLC Ann Arbor, U.M.I., 1989 (dissertation) 638p.

  • CHASINS, A. , Leopold Stokowski. ML 422 S76 C5 New York, Hawthorn Books, c1979 xvii, 313 p., 9 leaves of plates, illus.

  • CHECHLIŃSKA, Zofia, and Jan STESZEWSKI, eds. Polish Musicological Studiesvol. 1-2, Krakow: PWM Edition, 1977, 1985.

  • CHECHLIŃSKA, Zofia, et al., eds. Chopin Studies vol. 1. Warsaw: TiFC, 1985.

  • Chopin Studies Vol. 4. Proceedings from the International Musicological Symposium, "Chopin and Romanticism" (1986). Warsaw: Fryderyk Chopin Society, 1994.

  • CHRYPIŃSKI/PACK, Wycinanki. Polish Cut-Outs. TT 870 F75 Friends of Polish Art 30p.

  • CHYLIŃSKA, Teresa, Szymanowski. ML 410 S99 C56 1981, Kraków, PWM, 1981 228p.

  • CHYLIŃSKA, Teresa, Szymanowski.ML 410 S99 C56 1973,New York, KF & Twayne Pub., 1973 224 p. illus.

  • CHYLIŃSKA, Teresa, Szymanowski - a Witness of History. Sidelights on Karol Szymanowski's Correspondence: 1920-1926. OCLC "Musica Iagellonica", 1997 215-236 Musica Iagellonica 1997

  • CHYLIŃSKA, Teresa, Szymanowski, his Life and Works. OCLC Los Angeles, Friends of Polish Music, USC, 1993` 355p. Polish Music History Series;5

  • CHYLIŃSKA, Teresa. Karol Szymanowski: His Life & Works. Los Angeles: Friends of Polish Music, 1993.

  • CIEPLIŃSKI, Jan, A history of Polish ballet, 1518-1945 GV 1688 P6 C54 1983 London, Veritas Foun., Publication Centre, c1983 82 p., 8 p. of plates, ill.

  • CIEPLIŃSKI, Jan. A Brief History of Polish Ballet, 1518-1945. London: Veritas Foundation Publication Centre, 1983.

  • CONTOSKI, J. ed., Treasured Polish Christmas Customs and Traditions. GT 4987.68 P7 T74 Minneapolis, PPC, 1980

  • CRAFT, Robert, Bravo Stravinsky; Photographs by Arnold Newman. OCLC, Cleveland, The World Publishing Company, 1967

  • ĆWIEKA-SKRZYNIARZ, R, The Elegant Polish Running-Sliding Dance. GV 1688 P6 C85 v.3 1984 593p.

  • ĆWIEKA-SKRZYNIARZ, R , The Polish Figure Dance Book. GV 1688 P6 C85 v.2 1984 593p.

  • ĆWIEKA-SKRZYNIARZ, R, The Great Polish Walking Dance. GV 1688 P6 C85 v.1 1984 593p.

  • CZECH, Roman, Polish Customs. GT 4871 P6 F75 Michigan, FPA, 1977 40p.

  • CZEKANOWSKA, Anna, Polish Folk Music. ML 3677 C9 1990 Cambridge UP, New York, 1990 226p.

  • CZEKANOWSKA, Anna. Polish Folk Music: Slavonic Heritage, Polish Tradition, Contemporary Trends. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

  • CZĘSTOCHOWSKI, J., Contemporary Polish Posters in Full Color. NC 1807 P6 C66 New York, Dover Publications, 1979 vi, 42 p., chiefly col. illus.

  • DALE, Victor , Legends of Poland: An Album to color. OCLC Los Angeles, POLAmerica Press, 1980 28p.

  • DOWNES, Stephen. Szymanowski as Post-Wagnerian. "The Love Songs of Hafiz', op. 24 New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1994.

  • DROZDOWSKI, M.M., Ignacy Jan Paderewski, a Political Biography. DK 4420 P3 D7613 1981 Warsaw, Interpress, 1981, c1979. 287 p., 40 p. of plates, ill.

  • DRZEWIENIECKI, Walter M., Poles in America: Yesterday and today. OCLC Buffalo, New York, The Polish Cultural Foundation, 1980 23p.

  • DUDA, Eugeniusz, A Guide to Jewish Cracow. OCLC Warsaw, OUR ROOTS, 1992 65p."Library of ""Our Roots""; vol.2"

  • DULEBA/SOKOŁOWSKA, Paderewski. ML 410 P114 D8 1979 New York, KF, 1979 190 p., ill.

  • DZIEWANOWSKA, Ada, Polish Folk Dances and Songs: A step-by-step Guide. OCLC New York, Hippocrene Books, 1997 672p.

  • EIGELDINGER, Jean-Jacques, Chopin, Pianist & Teacher. ML 100 E56 1979 v.2 Cambridge Univ. Press 1979 324p.

  • ERHARDT, Ludwik, Contemporary Music in Poland. OCLC Polonia Pub. House, 1966 35p.

  • ERHARDT, Ludwik, Music in Poland. ML 306 E7313 Warsaw, Interpress, 1975 164 p., 8 leaves of plates, illus.

  • ERHARDT, Ludwik, ed. Music in Poland. Warsaw: Interpress Publishers, 1975.

  • FALK, Eugene, The Poetics of Roman Ingarden. B 4691 I534 F34 Chapel Hill NC, UNCP, 1981 213p.

  • FILLER, Wojciech, Contemporary Polish Theatre. PN 2859 P6 F5513 Warsaw, Interpress, 1977 127p., 1 p., 20 leaves of plates, illus., ports.

  • FOY, Janice, Inception and Growth of the Friends of Polish Music. ML 28 L6 F7 1986 Los Angeles, Janice Foy, 1986 vi, 13, 4 leaves

  • FUKS, Marian, Recued music: The Story of Jewish Music and Music-Making in Poland. OCLC manuscript (typescript) 47p.

  • GIELŻYŃSKI, Wojciech, Culture in Poland. DK 411 C8 Interpress, 1977 94p.

  • GILBERT, Douglas, Los Chords: the Diverting Story of American Popular Songs. OCLC New York, Doubleday, Doran and Co, 1942 377p.

  • GOŁOS, Jerzy, The Instrument and Its History: translated from Polish by Barbara Dejlidko. OCLC Warsaw, Sutkowski Edition, 1993 596p. The Polish organ. Vol.1

  • GOŁOS, Jerzy. The Polish OrganWarsaw, 1994.

  • GRABKOWSKI, Edmund, Henryk Wieniawski. OCLC Warsaw, Interpress, 1986 169 p.

  • HAIMAN, Miecislaus, Kosciuszko in the American Revolution. E 207 K8 H3 1975 New York, KF/PIAS, 1975 198 p., illus., port. Library of Polish studies, 4

  • HALL, Fernau, The World of Ballet and Dance: photographs by Mike Davis. OCLC London, Hamlyn,1973 140p.

  • HALSKI, Czeslaw, Folk Music in Poland: Songs, Dances & Instruments. OCLC, London, Polish Cultural Foundation, 1992 173p.

  • HARASOWSKI, A., The Skein of Legends Around Chopin. ML 410 C54 H25 1978 New York, Da Capo Press, 1980 417p. 66 leaves of plates, illus, facsims, music, ports.Da Capo Press music reprint series

  • HARASOWSKI, Adam. The Skein of Legends around Chopin. New York: Da Capo Press, 1980.

  • HARTWIG, Edward, Zelazowa Wola. ML 88 C46 H3159 Warszawa, Arkady, 1975 96 p., chiefly illus.

  • HOWARD, Luke Benjamin, "A Reluctant Requiem": the History and Reception of Henryk M. Gorecki's Symphony No.3 in Britain and the United States." OCLC ,Ann Arbor, UMI, 1997 364p.

  • HUNEKER, James, Chopin. The Man and His Music. OCLC, Dover Publications, Inc., 1995 239p.

  • JABLOŃSKI, R., Folk Art Designs to Color or Cut from Polish Wycinanki. TT 870 J29 1978 Owings Mill, MD, Stemmer House, 1978 54 p., illus.

  • JACHIMECKI, Zdzisław, Karol Szymanowski. OCLC London, SSEES 12p. JACOBSON, Bernard, A Polish Renaissance. OCLC, London, Phaidon Press Limited, 1996 240p.

  • JAGIELSKI, Jan; PASIECZNY, Robert, A Guide to Jewish Warsaw. OCLC Warsaw, OUR ROOTS, 1996 57p."Library of ""Our Roots""; vol.1"

  • JANICKA-SŁYSZ, Malgorzata; SIEMDAJ, Ewa, Akademia Muzyczna w Krakowie. The Academy of Music in Cracow. OCLC Krakow, Akademia Muzyczna, 1995

  • JANTA, Aleksander, A History of Ninteenth Century Polish-American Music. ML 120 U5 J26 1982 New York, KF, 1982 186p.

  • JANTA, Aleksander. A History of 19th-Century American-Polish Music.Brooklyn, KF, 1982.

  • JAROCIŃSKI, Stefan, ed. Polish Music. Warsaw: PWN (Polish Scientific Publishers), 1965.

  • KACZYŃSKI, Tadeusz. Conversations with Witold Lutoslawski. English translation.

  • KAFKA, Grazyna, Passionate Polish Decadence in 12th-Century Sicily: Three Expressions of Karol Szymanowski's King Roger. OCLC College Park, University of Maryland, 1995 (dissertation) 439 p.

  • KALLBERG, Jeffrey. Chopin at the Boundaries, Harvard University Press, 1996.

  • KEIL, Charles; KEIL, Angeliki V., Polka Happiness. OCLC , Philadelphia, Temple University Press,1992 221p.

  • KOBYLAŃSKA, Krystyna, Chopin in His Own Land. ML 410 C54 K6 Kraków, PWM, 1955 296 p., illus., facsim

  • KORWIN-SZYMANOWSKA, Stanisława, How to Sing the Works by Karol Szymanowski. ML 410 S99 K6713 Krakow, PWM 39 p., ports, facsims.

  • LAKS, Szymon, Music of Another World. D 805 P7 L34313 1989 c.2 Evanston, Ill., Northestern UP, 1989 130p.

  • LAKS, Szymon. Music of Another World. Transl. Chester A. Kisiel, Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1989.

  • LE PAGE, Jane Weiner, Women Composers, Conductors, and Musicians of the Twentieth Century: Selected Biographies; vol.III. OCLC, Metuchen, N.J., The Scarecrow Press Inc.,1988 323p.

  • LEISER, C., Jean de Reszke. ML 420 R36 L4 London, G. Howe, Ltd., 1933 xvi, 367, 1 p. front., illus., facsims., music, ports.

  • LENGYEL, E., Ignace Paderewski, Musician and Statesman. ML 410 P114 L4 New York, F. Watts, 1970 120 p. illus., ports. Immortals of music

  • LUDWIG, Emil, Beethoven: Life of a Conqueror. OCLC, New York, G.P.Putnam's Sons,1943 356p.

  • MACIEJEWSKI, Boguslaw M., H. M. Gorecki: His Music and Our Times. OCLC London, Allegro Press, 1994 67p.

  • MACIEJEWSKI, Boguslaw M., Karol Szymanowski. His Life & Music. ML 410 S99 M3 London , Poet's & Painter's Press, 1967 148p.

  • MACIEJEWSKI, Boguslaw M., Moniuszko. Father of Polish Opera. ML 410 M752 M3 London, Allegro Press, 1979 154 p., 10 leaves of plates, illus.

  • MACIEJEWSKI, Boguslaw M., Twelve Polish Composers. ML 390 M176 T6* London, Allegro Press, 1976 229p., 2 plates, 76p. of plates

  • MALEŃCZYK, Jerzy, A guide to Jewish Lodz. OCLC, Warsaw, OUR ROOTS, 1994 57p. Library of "Our Roots"; vol.4

  • MIĄSO, Jozef, The History of the Education of Polish Immigrants in the USA..LA 844.5 M513 New York, Kosciuszko Foundation, 1977 294p., 25 ill. The Library of Polish studies, vol.6

  • MICHAŁOWSKI, Kornel, OLECHNO-HUSZCZA, Gilian, Polish Music literature (1515-1990): A Selected Annotated Bibliography. OCLC, Los Angeles, Friends of Polish Music, 1985 243p. Polish Music History Series: Bibliography

  • MICHAŁOWSKI, Kornel and Gillian OLECHNO-HUSZCZA, eds. Polish Music Literature (1515-1990) Los Angeles: Friends of Polish Music, 1990.

  • MORAWIŃSKA, A., Polish Painting, XV-XX. ND 955 P6 M67 1984 Warsaw, Auriga, 1984 68p., 160 p. of plates, col. ill.

  • MORRISEY, Helen, Queen Jadwiga. OCLC Los Angeles, Helen Morrisey, 1978, manuscript 39p.

  • MURGIA, A.,Chopin. Portrait of Greatness. ML 88 C68 M783 1984 Long Island City, NY, Elite Pub. Corp., 1984, c1967 75p., col. ill.,

  • NEUER, Adam, Polish Opera and Ballet of the XX Century. ML 1736.5 P6413 1986 Krakow, PWM, c1986 132p., illus.

  • NEUER, Adam. Polish Opera and Ballet of the 20th Century Kraków: PWM, 1986, an annotated catalog of the main Polish music publisher.

  • NIJINSKY, Romolov de Pulszky, Nijinsky, foreword by Paul Claudel. GV 1785 N6 N59 1972* New York, Pocket Books, 1972, c1961 369p.,ill.

  • NIKOLSKA, Irina, Conversations with Witold Lutosławski. OCLC, Stockholm, Melos, 1994 221p.

  • OCHLEWSKI, Tadeusz, ed. An Outline History of Polish Music.Warsaw: Interpress Publishers, 1979. With essays by Grzegorz Michalskim Ewa Obniska, Henryk Swolkien and Jerzy Waldorff. Translated by Magdalena Mierowska-Paszkiewicz. This book also appears in Polish.

  • ORGA, Ates. Chopin: H is Life and Times. Neptune City, N.J.: Paganiniana Publications, 1976.

  • PACK, Martin A., Costumes and Dances of Poland. GT 1060 P3 Grosse Point Park, MI, ACPCC, c1978 40p., illus.

  • PADEREWSKI, Ignacy Jan; LAWTON, Mary, The Paderewski Memories. ML 410 P114 A2 New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938 404p.

  • PANUFNIK, Andrzej, Impulse and Design in my Music. ML 410 P1615 A3 London, Boosey & Hawkes, 1974 27p.

  • PIASEK-WAŃSKI, Michael I., Karol Szymanowski's Philosophy of Music Education. OCLC University of the Pacific, 1981 (dissertation) 160p.

  • PINKWART, Maciej, The Karol Szymanowski Museum in the villa Atma at Zakopane: A guide. The Karol Szymanowski Museum. ML 141 C72 S96 Krakow, National Museum, 1979 22p., 8 p. of plates, illus.

  • PODOLSKY, L., The Autobiography of Dr. Leo Podolsky. ML 417 P65 A3 Sepulveda, CA, TMR Prod., c1977 118p., 2 leaves of plates, illus.

  • PONIATOWSKA Irena, Fifty Years of Fryderyk Chopin Society. OCLC Warsaw, FCS, 1984 36p.

  • PROŚNAK, Jan, Frederic Chopin International Piano Competitions. ML 76 F76 P82 Warsaw, FCS, 1970 112,1 v. (unpaged) illus.

  • PROŚNAK, Jan, Moniuszko. ML 410 M752 P813 Krakow, PWM, 1980 214 p., ill.

  • RAPAPORT, Lydia.Contemporary Music in Poland.

  • RESTOUT, Denise, Landowska Music. ML 417 L26 A33 New York, Stain and Day, 1965 434p.

  • RODZIŃSKA, Halina, Our Two Lives. ML 422 R7 R6 New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976 403p.

  • ROSEN, Judith, Grażyna Bacewicz, her Life and Works. ML 410 B05 R7 1984,Los Angeles, Friends of Polish Music, Univ. of So. Calif 70p. Polish Music History Series, 2

  • ROSEN, Judith. Grażyna Bacewicz, Her Life & Works. Los Angeles: Friends of Polish Music, 1984.

  • ROSENTHAL, Harold; WARRACK, John, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera. OCLC London, Oxford Univ. Press, 1980 561p.

  • RÓŻEWICZ, Tadeusz, The Witnesses and Other Plays. PG 7158 R63 A22 1970 London, Calder&Boyars 1970 136p.

  • RUBINSTEIN, Arthur, My Young Years. ML 417 R79 A3 New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1973 478p.

  • RUBINSTEIN, Arthur, My Many Years. OCLC New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1980 626p.

  • SAMSON, Jim, The Cambridge Companion to Chopin. OCLC Cambridge,Cambridge University Press, 1992 341p.

  • SAMSON, Jim, The Music of Szymanowski. ML 410 S99 S25 1981 New York, Taplinger Pub. Co., 1981 220p.

  • SAMSON, Jim. The music of Szymanowski. New York and London: Kahn and Averill, 1981.

  • SAMSON, Jim, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Chopin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

  • SCHONBERG, Harold C., The Great Pianists, from Mozart to the Present. ML 397 S3 New York, Simon and Schuster, 1963 448p. ports., music

  • SEIDLER, Barbara, Opowieść o Popielu i myszach. King Popiel and the Mice. PG 7158 S357 K5 Warszawa, Sport i Turystyka, 1976 32p., col. illus.

  • SEIDLER, Barbara, O Piaście Kołodzieju. The Legend of King Piast. GR 195 S45 Lodz, KF/STP, 1977 34p.

  • SHAFER, Sharon G., The Contribution of Grażyna Bacewicz to Polish Music. OCLC Edwin Mellen Press, UK, 1992 81p.

  • SIERPIŃSKI, Zdzisław, Karol Szymanowski. An anthology. ML 410 S99 O213 1986 Warszawa, Interpress, 1986 216p., illus., ports.

  • SIERPIŃSKI, Zdzisław, ed. Karol Szymanowski. An Anthology. Translated by Emma Harris. Warsaw: Interpress Publishers 1986.

  • SLEŃCZYŃSKA/BIANCOLLI, Forbidden Childhood. ML 417 S65 A3 New York, Doubleday & Co., 1957 263p.

  • ŚMIALEK, William, Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski and Musical Life in 19th c. Poland. OCLC Lewiston, NY, Edwin Mellen Press, 1991 195p. Studies in the History and Interpretation of Music; vol.33

  • ŚMIALEK, William. Polish Music. A Research & Information Guide. New York: Garland, 1989. Series Music and Information Guides, v. 12.

  • ŚMIALEK, William. Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski and Musical Life in 19th-Century Poland. Edwin Mellen Press, 1991.

  • SMULIKOWSKA, Ewa, Organ-Cases in Poland as Works of Art translated from Polish by Barbara Dejlidko. OCLC, Warsaw, Sutkowski Edition, 1993, The Polish organ. Vol.2

  • SMULIKOWSKA, Ewa. Organ-Cases in Poland as Works of Art. The Polish Organ, vol. 2, revised by Jerzy Golos. Transl. Barbara Dejlidko. Warsaw: Sutkowski Edition, 1993.

  • SPORNY, V.M., An Outline History of Polish Music. OCLC Pennsylvania, V. Sporny, manuscript 39p.

  • STATKOWSKI, Joseph, Poland; History, Culture, Civilization. DK 4110 S72 3 PSC, 1935 56p.

  • STATKOWSKI, Joseph, Poland the Country of Your Fathers. DK 404 S685 SZPzZ, 1935 55p.

  • STRZETELSKI, Jerzy, An Outline of Polish literature. PG 7014 S83 Kraków, UJ, 1974 69p.

  • STUCKY, Steven, Lutosławski & His Music. ML 410 L965 S8, Cambridge UP, New York, 1980 252p.

  • STUCKY, Steven. Lutosławski and His Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

  • SULIKOWSKI, Jerzy, Polish Music. ML 297 S85 Birkenhead, England, Polish publ.committee, 1944 32 p. illus. (music)

  • SZWEJKOWSKI, Zygmunt, ed. Music in Old Cracow/Muzyka w Dawnym Krakowie. Selections of works from the 15th to the 18th centuries edited and introduced by Zygmunt M. Szweykowski. Published on the 600th anniversary of the Jagiellonian University. Cracow: 1964.

  • SZYMANOWSKI, Karol. Szymanowski on Music. Writings edited and translated by Alistair Wightman. Series Musicians on Music No. 6. Forthcoming from Toccata Press, Summer 1997.

  • TARNAWSKA-KACZOROWSKA, Krystyna, Giacinto Scelsi, Anahit: a lyrical poem deicated to Venus: for violin and chamber orchestra (1965), OCLC, Poznan, Ars Nova, 1995 40p.

  • THOMAS, Adrian, Górecki. OCLC , Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1997 187p. Oxford Studies of Composers

  • THOMAS, Adrian, Grażyna Bacewicz. Chamber and Orchestral music. ML 410 B05 T5 1985 Los Angeles, PMHS, 1985 128 PMHS

  • THOMAS, Adrian. Grażyna Bacewicz: Chamber & Orchestral music.Los Angeles: Friends of Polish Music, 1984.

  • TOMASZEWSKI, Mieczysław, Chopin. A Diary in Images. ML 88 C68 T613 1990 Warsaw, PWM & Arkady, 1990 270p. ill.

  • TRZCIŃSKI, Andrzej, A Guide to Jewish Lublin and Surroundings. OCLC, Warsaw, OUR ROOTS, 1996 80p. Library of "Our Roots"; vol.3"

  • UMIŃSKI, S.H., Tales of Early Poland. PZ 8.1 U4 T3 Detroit, MI, Endurance Press, 1968 100 p. illus.

  • WALDO, Artur L., Messiah of Science. Kopernik. QB 36 C8 W36 Phoenix, AZ, KQCA, 1974 62 p., 2 leaves of plates, ill., maps, ports.

  • WALDO, Artur L., True Heroes of Jamestown. F 229 W25 Miami, FL, AIPC, 1977 256 p., ill.

  • WALSKA, G., Always Room at the Top. ML 420 W175 New York, R.R. Smith, 1943 504 p. illus.

  • WIELEWIŃSKI, Bernard, Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses Regarding Polish Subjects 1900-1985 OCLC 1988 East European Monographs, Boulder, Columbia Uv.Press 200 East European Monographs; CCXXXV

  • WIENIEWSKI, Ignacy, Heritage; The Foundations of Polish Culture. DK 4110 W653 1981 Toronto, Pol-Can WF in Canada, 1981 xvi, 96 p., 32 p. of plates, ill., ports.

  • WIGHTMAN, Alistair. Karlowicz, Young Poland and the Musical Fin-de-Siecle. Hampshire, Scolar Press, 1996.

  • WILK, Wanda, Szymanowski. ML 410 S99 W5 Los Angeles, Friends of Polish Music, 1982 16p. Polish Music History Series, v. 1

  • WILK, Wanda, An Annotated Bibliography on Polish Music. ML 120 P6 T13 W5 manuscript, M.A. thesis, USC, 1975 93p.

  • WOLSKA/ALFORD, Dances of Poland. GV 1688 P6 W6 London, Parrish, 1952. 38 p., ill. Handbooks of European national dances, 22p.

  • ZAKRZEWSKA-NIKIPORCZYK, Barbara, Ruch Muzyczny 1857-1862. OCLC Ann Arbor, UMI, 1997 454p. Repertoire International de la Presse Musicale

  • ZAMOYSKI, A., Paderewski. ML 410 P114 Z3 1982 New York, Atheneum, 1982 289p.

  • ZAMOYSKI, Adam. Paderewski. New York: Atheneum, 1982.

  • ZIELENIEWICZ, A., Poland. DK 404 Z53 1971 Michigan, Orchard Lake, 1971 277p.

  • ZIELIŃSKI, R.T., Karol Szymanowski's Stabat Mater. ML 410 S99 Z5 1991 Urbana, University of Illinois, 1991 xii, 280p. 29cm. Thesis (D.M.A.)

  • ŻEBROWSKI, Dariusz, Studies in Chopin. ML 410 C54 S86 Warsaw, Chopin Society, 1973 141p.

  • ŻEBROWSKI, Dariusz, ed. Studies in Chopin. Warsaw: TiFC, 1973.

  • ŻURAWSKI, Joseph W., Polish American History and Culture. E 184 P7 Z87 Chicago, PMA, 1975 197p.

    This list contains references to many studies currently out of print. Some texts may be found only in research libraries and Polish cultural centers. The Polish Music Collection of the PMRC Library includes all of these titles. To find more information as well as titles of many theses and dissertations in English (till 1987) see the bibliography, Polish Music Literature (1515-1990) published by the Friends of Polish Music, USC School of Music, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0851. (213) 740-9369.

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