Books by Maciej Golab

This history of twentieth-century musical modernism emphasizes musical structure in its cultural context. The book uses several methodological models according to different interpretations of the subsequent phases of the twentieth-century musical modernism.

Musical Work Analysis is a holistic approach to the cognitive theory of the musical work. The book develops some of Roman Ingarden¿s concepts on the epistemology of an actually existing work of music. The author outlines an epistemological theory of the musical work by discussing the role of musical analysis in modern musicology, defining sources and objects of epistemological activity, formulating a systematization of analytical terms, issues and methods, both normative and descriptive, and addressing the relation between analysis and interpretation of a musical work. The book was published in Polish language in edition of the Foundation for Polish Science (Wroc¿aw University Press, Wroc¿aw 2003) and awarded by the Polish Ministry of National Education (2004).

The studies collected in this book fall into four chief thematic areas of research on Fryderyk Chopin's life, stylistic changes, creative output, and musical reception. It deals with the composer's artistic formation, the problem of his musical language, his musical aesthetics and the composer's reception.