The role of transcription in the didactic process on the example of chamber works intended for piano for four hands or two pianos
The aim of the article is to prove the need to use transcriptions of well-known musical works in the didactics of playing for four hands and two pianos. It presents the genesis of the concept of transcription, traces the development of transcription in the context of the history of musical forms, and analyzes its performance aspects. The article presents the advantages of transcription as a study developing the piano workshop and deepening the art of interpretation. The publication also contains a list of transcribed works available in the Petrucci Library and a list of author's transcriptions of nineteenth-century Polish composers, intended for playing with four hands. The article also contains a link to recordings made by the author of the article – in a duet with Agata Kalińska-Bonińska – of selected transcriptions of popular opera, symphonic and chamber works.
Brillant style in early romantic Polish music
In 2012, in the form of a scientific monograph, I published my doctoral thesis Styl brillant in early romantic Polish music, which was published by the Łódź Scientific Society as part of the cycle "Science Routes", Łódź 2012, ISSN 0082-1314
In chopin's circle of music
In the autumn of 2011, in the post-conference materials from the Scientific and Artistic Session in chopin's circle of music (21-28 February 2011), i wrote a chapter: Echoes of Chopin chamber music in the work of I. F. Dobrzyński, in: In the circle of Chopin's music (AM publishing house in Łódź, Łódź 2011, ISBN 978-83-60929-20-9), in which I tried to show the relationship between dobrzyński's creative style and Chopin's.
Claude Debussy on the background of the era
I also took an active part in scientific conferences and in scientific and artistic sessions organized by the scientific units of the Academy of Music. Grazyna and Kiejstuta Bacewiczów in Łódź: Scientific and Artistic Conference in 150. anniversary of the birth of Claude Debussy (October 15-17, 2012) of the National Conference of Artistic and Scientific Elements of Jazz in Piano Energy of the 20th and 21st centuries (November 18-22, 2013), the National Conference of Artistic and Scientific Chamber music in the works of French composers (November 17-21, 2014), National Conference of Artistic and Scientific Piano Chamber Music in the work of Scandinavian composers (November 23, 2015), National Scientific Conference Polish chamber music of the first half of the twentieth century. Sources, styles, interpretations (7-8-December 2018), 59. Musica Moderna Session, (December 3-15, 2011), 65. Musica Moderna Session (November 26 – December 17, 2014), Scientific and Artistic Session of the Łódź Academy of Music. Past and present (November-December 2013).
In the post-conference materials (Artistic and Scientific Conference on the 150th anniversary of the birth of Claude Debussy (1862–1918), 15-17 October 2012, Academy of Music. Grazyna and Kiejstuta Bacewiczów in Łódź) was posted my recording of the piano works of Nicholas Ciurlonis and songs by Claude Debussy performed together with Prof. Beata Zawadka-Kłos (Two-album album "Claude Debussy against the background of the era", publishing house of the Academy of Music in Łódź, AM 0026, AM0027).