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Words, Music, and The Popular, 2021

The 2018 album Mickiewicz – Stasiuk – Haydamaky by the Ukrainian folk-rock band Haydamaky is a se... more The 2018 album Mickiewicz – Stasiuk – Haydamaky by the Ukrainian folk-rock band Haydamaky is a setting of ten poems by Adam Mickiewicz. The album combines recitations in Polish by the writer Andrzej Stasiuk with parts sung in Ukrainian. This chapter offers a reading of the album in light of its literary sources in Polish and Ukrainian Romanticism and of its historical context, showing a melopoetic tradition of folksong’s political force to which both Mickiewicz and Haydamaky subscribe. Mickiewicz’s Konrad Wallenrod, the source of the oriental ballad Alpuhara (track 4), builds an axis of conflict, articulated in terms of linguistic, religious and poetic genre contrasts between the German, knightly, “Highbrow”, Catholic “West” and the oppressed, conquered, Lithuanian, Pagan “East”, whose priest and folk singer, the wajdelota, is presented as heir to Homer’s lyre. The Crimean Sonnets (tracks 1-3, 5, 7, 8) provide an additional layer to the East/West axis in terms of an ambiguous orientalism, eloquently re-appropriated by the Ukrainian rock band. It is my contention that Mickiewicz’s politically charged melopoesis is here recast as popular music to make a statement on Ukraine’s precarious position between East and West.

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The central scene of Adam Mickiewicz’s historic tale Konrad Wallenrod [Konrad Wallenrod] (canto I... more The central scene of Adam Mickiewicz’s historic tale Konrad Wallenrod [Konrad Wallenrod]
(canto IV) is, diegetically speaking, a singing contest. Its poetic presentation is deeply anchored
in Homeric, Pauline, and Troubadour traditions of agon intended both as musicopoetic rivalry
and as spiritual struggle. What is at stake here are identities: Konrad-Alf’s national/moral
identity on the one hand, and the poem’s medial identity (literary/musical) on the other.
Walterscottian stylisation used here by Mickiewicz is typically taken to neutralise the text’s overt
and covert musical genetic self-identifications, which make up for the text’s self-presentation
as a song to be “sung in the tender reader’s soul” (VI, in fine). The division of the work into
musical numbers, with a variety of genres represented (hymn, different types of song, tale, ballad),
is notoriously ignored. Critics take such musical paratextes as mere signs of historical convention,
taking Mickiewiczian “singing” to be a dead metaphor for “storytelling in verse”, sometimes going
so far as to misread or misquote the last lines of the source text. The present paper challenges
this common anti-musical interpretation, thus shedding new light on Wallenrod’s contest ballad
“Alpuhara” [“Alpuhara”] and its disturbing musical shape.

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(canto IV) is, diegetically speaking, a singing contest. Its poetic presentation is deeply anchored
in Homeric, Pauline, and Troubadour traditions of agon intended both as musicopoetic rivalry
and as spiritual struggle. What is at stake here are identities: Konrad-Alf’s national/moral
identity on the one hand, and the poem’s medial identity (literary/musical) on the other.
Walterscottian stylisation used here by Mickiewicz is typically taken to neutralise the text’s overt
and covert musical genetic self-identifications, which make up for the text’s self-presentation
as a song to be “sung in the tender reader’s soul” (VI, in fine). The division of the work into
musical numbers, with a variety of genres represented (hymn, different types of song, tale, ballad),
is notoriously ignored. Critics take such musical paratextes as mere signs of historical convention,
taking Mickiewiczian “singing” to be a dead metaphor for “storytelling in verse”, sometimes going
so far as to misread or misquote the last lines of the source text. The present paper challenges
this common anti-musical interpretation, thus shedding new light on Wallenrod’s contest ballad
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My aim in this paper is to explore the effective interrelation between these two musical ineffabilisms, despite the fact that the author of Music and the Ineffable is never mentioned in Zangwill’s text. First, I discuss briefly the triad indicible – ineffable – inexprimable in Jankélévitch, taking into account his negative metaphysics and ethics, as well as his Neoplatonic roots (Plotinus, Proclus), his dialogue with apophatic theology (Pseudo-Dionysius, Cappadocian Fathers) and the abundant references to mysticism (St John of the Cross, Jakob Böhme, Angelus Silesius) in this context. Second, I reconstruct and discuss Zangwill’s three fundamental theses on music: formalism, realism and ineffabilism, offering some critical remarks. Third, I propose an original general classification of the ineffabilist theses on music (three universal and four particular), ordered with respect to the traditional formalist – antiformalist antithesis. As a result, various distinct ineffabilist theses are made explicit, compared and put in order. In the fourth and last part, I argue that both authors characterise the musical ineffable consistently in terms of immanent sense, typical of the ineffabilist theses grouped in my taxonomy as formalist, rejecting anti-formalist sorts of ineffabilism. Thus Jankélévitch, for all the methodological, axiological and stylistic features to which Zangwill is diametrically opposed, can be perfectly catalogued under the label coined by Zangwill for his own view on music: immanent mysticism.

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Can the philosophical quest for the essence of music be informed by the transgressive attempts to... more Can the philosophical quest for the essence of music be informed by the transgressive attempts to make music within the means traditionally proper to other temporal arts, such as literature? What can we learn about the essence of music from such hybrids? And are they hybrids at all? Can musical novels and short stories be legitimate objects of scrutiny for the philosopher of music, alongside with symphonies, Lieder, popular songs and jazz standards? Can they count as (qualified, perhaps) instantiations of the musical art, rather than mere representations and descriptions thereof? In my attempt to address these questions in the lights of the contemporary Philosophy of Music on one hand and the Word and Music Studies on the other I interpret Antoni Libera’s 2012 short story Toccata in C Major as a work of textual music. I comment on some heuristic advantages of such well-defended inclusion for the philosophical study of the essence of music.

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Fundamentalna dla szeregu przedstawicieli dwudziestowiecznej filozofii francuskiej kategoria 'ine... more Fundamentalna dla szeregu przedstawicieli dwudziestowiecznej filozofii francuskiej kategoria 'ineffable' znalazła szczególne odbicie w myśli muzycznej Vladimira Jankélévitcha. W najnowszej książce brytyjskiego estetyka analitycznego Nicka Zangwilla ("Music and Aesthetic Reality: Formalism and the Limits of Description", Routledge, czerwiec 2015) - w zupełnym oderwaniu od tej kontynentalnej tradycji - ineffable pojawia się jako kluczowy element konstrukcji filozoficznej, której celem jest rehabilitacja i ponowne umocowanie tezy formalizmu w estetyce muzycznej oraz obrona realizmu w odniesieniu do muzycznych własności estetycznych.
W wystąpieniu przybliżam krytycznie propozycję Zangwilla i badam stosunek zachodzący pomiędzy jego pojęciem ineffable a tym, które wypracował (zignorowany przezeń) Jankélévitch.
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MODULAMINA PUERILIA A Recital by Jan Czarnecki MAY 23, 2013, THURSDAY AT 7 P.M. The Ballroom of t... more MODULAMINA PUERILIA
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MAY 23, 2013, THURSDAY
AT 7 P.M.
The Ballroom of the University of Warsaw
Tyszkiewicz–Potocki Palace
ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 32

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Translation from French into Polish of the article on Elisabeth Chojnacka by Raphaël de Gubernatis.

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Środy Kolońskie is a new Polish Studies Seminar at the University of Cologne. Read more on: http:... more Środy Kolońskie is a new Polish Studies Seminar at the University of Cologne.
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Call for Abstracts Conference Date: 11-12 December 2018 Conference Venue: University of Cologne,... more Call for Abstracts

Conference Date: 11-12 December 2018
Conference Venue: University of Cologne, Wahn Castle, Germany
Keynote Speakers: Prof. Philip Ross Bullock, University of Oxford
Prof. Peter Dayan, University of Edinburgh
Organisers: Dr Jan Czarnecki, University of Cologne
Dr Mina Đurić, University of Belgrade
Proposals Deadline: 21 October 2018

Rethinking the Impact of the Liberal Arts (IV) – Music

The fourth of our encounters with the legacy of the septem artes liberales (after Astronomy and Rhetoric in Cologne, and Grammar in Belgrade) reconnects here with a series of Word and Music Study Days organized previously in Edinburgh, Liège and Turin under the auspices of Prof. Peter Dayan. This time we extend the invitation for contributions to all interested scholars, in the hope of broadening the Word and Music Studies perspective with Slavic (musical, literary, theoretical) contexts. The legacy of musica as one of the artes liberales, put under control of logos, and the newer literary imitations and transformations of music, seen as means of expansion beyond the limits of logocentric rationality, will constitute the core of our investigations, discussions and cross-readings. The two-days conference invites proposals of individual papers, workshops and concert-lectures, as well as graduate student presentations. Contributions from various methodological perspectives and institutional backgrounds are most welcome. Please send proposals of up to 300 words together with a short biographical note (max. 200 words) to Dr Jan Czarnecki jan.czarnecki@uni-koeln.de by 21 October 2018. Individual paper presentations will be 20 minutes long to be followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Other forms of participation include: shorter student presentations, workshop proposals, concert-lectures.

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