List of musical examples
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Part I. The Captive Muse: 1. Szymanowski and his legacy
2. The Second World War
3. Post-war reconstruction
4. Socialist realism I: its onset and genres
5. Socialist realism II: concert music
Part II. Facing West: 6. The 'Warsaw Autumn'
7. Engaging with the avant-garde
Part III. The Search for Individual Identity: 8. The pull of tradition
9. Sonorism and experimentalism
10. A significant hinterland
Part IV. Modernisms and National Iconographies: 11. Pursuing the abstract
12. Music and symbolism I: sacred and patriotic sentiment
13. Music and symbolism II: vernacular and classical icons
14. Emigré composers
15. Young Poland
Part V. Postscript: 16. After Lutoslawski
Appendices
Notes
Select bibliography
Index.
