Karol Szymanowski: The Polish Pioneer

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📚 Sources/further reading:
“Analytical Approaches to the Middle-Period Compositions of Karol Szymanowski,” by Alan Michael Reese (Ph.D Dissertation, Eastman School of Music, 2018)
“The ‘Szymanowski Clash’: Harmonic Conflict and Ambiguity in the Szymanowski Mazurkas” by Matthew Bengtson (Intersections, the Canadian Journal of Music, 2016, Vol. 36 No. 1): https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/is/1900-v1-n1-is03495/1043866ar.pdf
“Karol Szymanowski and Richard Strauss: Of Diverging Epiphanies” by Paul Cadrin (Canadian University Music Review, 2004, Vol. 24 No. 2): https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/cumr/2004-v24-n2-cumr0480/1014581ar.pdf
“Karol Szymanowski’s Musical Language in ‘Myths’ for Violin and Piano” by Hyojin Ahn (DMA Dissertation, Rice University, 2008): https://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/handle/1911/22139/3309825.PDF?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
“Karol Szymanowski's First Violin Concerto, Op. 35” by Emily Chao (DMA Dissertation, Boston University, 2013)
“Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 36 by Karol Szymanowski: Musical and Historical Influences” by Ji-Young Kim (DMA Dissertation, University of Arizona, 2010)
“Impact, Influence, and Performance of Szymanowski’s Myths Op. 30” by Sophie Bird (DM Dissertation, Indiana University, 2019): https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2022/23009/Bird%2C%20Sophie%20%28DM%20Violin%29.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
“The Violin Music of Karol Szymanowski” by Frank Kwantat Ho (MA Thesis, University of Alberta, 2000): https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/f5791da5-f6fa-4e62-a264-f6253bbe8002/view/2af4f0ff-6608-4e78-87cd-5f1206a27389/MQ59725.pdf
“‘A New Mode of Expression”: Karol Szymanowski’s First Violin Concerto Op. 35 Within a Dionysian Context” by Marianne Broadfoot (Ph.D Dissertation, Sydney Conservatory, 2014): https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/41241413.pdf
“Karol Szymanowski and his ‘Stabat Mater’” by Kuan-Fen Liu (DMA Treatise, University of Southern California, 2010)
“Music of Karol Szymanowski in the Intertextual Dialogue” by Bogumiła Mika, University of Silesia (New Sound 51, 2018): http://www.newsound.org.rs/pdf/en/ns51/04_Mika.pdf
Program notes to Szymanowski’s String Quartet No. 1 by Chris Darwin: http://www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/home/Chris_Darwin/WebProgNotes/pdfs/Szymanowski1.pdf

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Music:

- Karol Szymanowski: Nocturne and Tarantella, Op. 28 (1915), performed by Angelo Xiang Yu and Dina Vainshtein and available on IMSLP: https://tinyurl.com/rnofcre
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, Op. 1 No. 2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
- Karol Szymanowski: String Quartet No. 1, Op. 37 (1917), performed by the Camerata Quartet [original upload: uxdMSDLzNJ4]

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