2022/11/18 by Węgorek, Kamil J.
paper · doi:10.34767/mhte.2021.01.01
The above article is a continuation of the text contained in the previous issue of „Muzyka. Historia. Teoria. Edukacja”. It concerns the verbal-musical relation present in the songs of Karłowicz and Szymanowski, based on the poetry of Przerwa-Tetmajer. It only provides interpretations of the songs (the texts have been spoken in the previous section), which however have been made in a certain thematic order. The author links them with important “isms” of the era: impressionism, secession, decadence, expressionism, as well as analyses them in the context of “Young Poland antinomies” (such as “life - death”) and such motives as: the underworld, childhood, dream, love, water. In the article it is impossible to look for a discussion of all the texts by Przerwa-Tetmajer, musicalized by Karłowicz and Szymanowski, but – as the author hopes – we can find here a complete picture in terms of thematic content there. The framework of the article did not allow for a thorough analysis and interpretation of the entire material, thus the author found it necessary to limit himself to two songs, which were then examined both from the text and the music side: these songs were selected on the basis of contrast (mainly structural). In the last fragment – because we are talking about it at the moment – the author summarizes his concept of the essence of the musical-literary relationship in the song, reaching the conclusion that in this symbiosis, both poetry and music interact with each other.