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Musical instruments were very rare symbols pictured on the Jewish tombstones in the Central Europe during last few centuries. More often were they painted as an illustration to Psalms 137 (136) and 150 on the inside synagogue's walls since the 18th century. Most of those temples where made of wood. No such wooden synagogue and only a dozen or so stone ones survived the World War II. However, some...
The article reports the results of an archival search in the 'Archiwum Glówne Akt Dawnych' (The Central Archive od Historical Records) in Warsaw. The source was: 'Ksiegi metrykalne wyznania mojzeszowego z terenów tzw. zabuzanskich z lat 1814-1939 (Registers of Jewish Faith from the Area beyond the Bug, 1814-1939) (Set No 300/I-II: documents Nos: 374 (ref. 1891), 124 (ref. 2200), 58 (ref. 2205) and...
The Wroclaw Codex (WarU 5892) belongs to a family of Central European mensural codices originating from the end of the 15th century and demonstrating a rich musical culture in the regions of Saxony, Silesia and Bohemia (musical manuscripts BerlS 40021, LeipU 1494, WarU 5892, HradKM 7). The present study focuses on transmission of imported polyphonic repertory within this area, and especially on the...
The National Museum in Warsaw holds 36 plainchant sources: 6 liturgical books and 30 fragments. These manuscripts are dispersed throughout various departments of the Museum and do not constitute a cohesive collection. They come from various periods (from the thirteenth to the end of the seventeenth century), and differ in provenance (Poland, Silesia, Germany, Italy), contents (antiphonals, graduals,...
The concept of melancholy is inextricably linked to questions about the nature of the human psyche: emotions and feelings. In spite of different views as to the origins of melancholy, descriptions of this condition throughout history are generally similar, and differ merely in details. It is a frequently employed, highly suggestive term, aptly describing a certain kind of reality. It has come into...
Józef Kazimierz Hofmann (1876-1957), the famous Polish pianist, teacher, composer and inventor, was one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century. He spent most of his life in the United States. He gave concerts, composed, taught, and was also Director of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. The first articles and press notes about Józef Hofmann were published in 1957 by Stefan Litauer...
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