Jagellonian Tradition in Poland and Its Projection in the Structure of the University of Poznan (1922-2023)

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to analyse the activities of the Department of Musicology of the University of Poznań in the line of the Jagiellonian tradition of Poland in the original refraction of the foundations of European academic musical education from its foundation (1922) to the beginning of the twenty-first century. The research methodology consists in the application of the biographical method (studying the life path of famous representatives of the Poznań school of musicology); the source study method (studying scientific works on the above-mentioned issues); and the musicological and analytical method to study a separate stylistic typology and historiographical achievements. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the identification of the cultural phenomenon of Jagiellonianism in connection with the peculiarities of the foundation and functioning of the Department of Musicology at the University of Poznań. Conclusions. The study helped to trace the path of formation of musicology as a science and academic discipline in Poznań in the line with the Jagiellonian tradition of Poland in the original refraction of the foundations of European academic musical education from its foundation (1922) to the beginning of the twenty-first century. The Department of Musicology headed by L. Kamienski was the only academic unit in Poland where research in the field of ethnomusicology was conducted. This department was the first in the country to launch musicological activities aimed to systematise the collection and process Polish folk music based on live material. A regional phonographic archive was founded at the department. The activities of L. Kamienski and A. Cybinski led to the emergence of a galaxy of Polish musicologists and music historians who were brought up on the principles of the educational and scientific methodology of European academic education. This was a generation of musicologists who received a thorough professional education of the European standard in their homeland.

Key words: Jagiellonian cultural tradition, Institute of Musicology of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, musicological education.