The programme ‘Blank Pages – Music and Dance’ is addressed to Polish and foreign researchers who plan to conduct research, in Poland and abroad, into neglected and obscure areas of Polish music and dance, without the restrictions of genre. The end result of the research will be submitted in the written form (e.g. a musicological paper, a science article, a catalogue of an artist’s complete works, a database, a reconstruction of a work, a critical edition of source materials etc.) including such areas of study as a compositional output, artistic achievements, musicological activities, reception of music and dance in Poland, as well as the history, theory and aesthetics of Polish dance.
Results of the application selection process
An Institute of Music and Dance-organised video-conference session of the competition committee selecting the projects to receive financial support as part of the programme ‘Blank Pages – Music and Dance’ 2020/2021 edition took place on 14 July 2020.
The committee was composed of various experts recommended by the Institute of Musicology at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań – Prof. Ryszard Daniel Golianek, the Institute of Art at the Polish Academy of Sciences – Dr Weronika Grozdew-Kołacińska, the Polish Forum of Choreology – Urszula Loba-Wilgocka, as well as representatives of the Institute of Music and Dance – Maxymilian Bylicki and Brygida Błaszczyk-Podhajska.
The committee selected the following research projects to receive financial support from amongst the 35 which had been submitted:
- Szkoła czytania muzyki / Music Reading Handbook (c. 1863 – 1868) by Stanisław Moniuszko – a forgotten nineteenth-century method of teaching music – Miłosz Aleksandrowicz
to receive PLN 5 000
- Henryk Pachulski – catalogue of works – Viktoryia Antonchyk, Natalia Pushina
to receive PLN 10 000
- Lauda Jerusalem a 9 by Telesfor Wikliński O. Carm. Description and critical edition of the source materials – Marek Bebak
to receive PLN 10 000 - Pedagogical qualities in the piano works by Henryk Pachulski in the context of perfecting piano technique by children and adolescents – Jarosław Domagała
to receive PLN 10 000 - Works for keyboard instruments by Józef Boruwłaski (1739-1837) – the most famous dwarf of Europe during the Enlightenment – Gabriela Gacek
to receive PLN 7 000
- The legacy of traditional music in Pomorze (Pomerania) – the cultural and linguistic borderland between Poland and Germany in 1900 – 1945, with the emphasis on the area known today as Pomorze Zachodnie (Western Pomerania) – Ewa Grochowska
to receive PLN 10 000 - The oldest musicians in Region Kozła (Kozioł Land) on the photographs from the collection of Fundacja TRES. Database – Joanna Gul, Zbigniew Jerzy Przerembski, Agnieszka Drożdżewska
to receive PLN 20 000
- Polish works for English guitar – thematic catalogue and presentation of the extant works – Wojciech Gurgul
to receive PLN 4 500
- History and description of dance in Kraków between 1918 and 1956 in local and national press. Compiling a biographical dictionary of dance in Kraków and Małopolska (Lesser Poland) between 1918 and 2018 – complementation and edition of the biographical entries – Krzysztof Hliniak, Agnieszka Gorczyca, Magdalena Malska
to receive PLN 20 000
- Bożena Mamontowicz-Łojek’s archive at the Instytut Teatralny (Theatre Institute) in Warsaw. Analysis of the contents of the collection and its research potential with regard to dance – Hanna Raszewska-Kursa
to receive PLN 10 000 - Józef Wieniawski (1837-1912) – catalogue of works – Karol Rzepecki
to receive PLN 10 000 - Solo, choral and vocal-instrumental works by Stefan Marian Stoiński – analytical sketch – Anna Stachura-Bogusławska
to receive PLN 3 000 - Carl Julius Adolf Hoffmann (1801-1843) – the reviver of musical life in Opole. Description of his Marian works based on the example of the Litany of Loreto and Ave Maris Stella – Ewelina Szendzielorz
to receive PLN 10 000
- Memory revived: Emil Łapczyński, a concert musician (1837-1863). Life and artistic work of a forgotten virtuoso, composer and January Uprising insurgent – Maria Wilczek-Krupa
to receive PLN 10 000 - Antonina Miklaszewicz-Campi. The Viennese years. [On the 200th anniversary of death] – Andrzej Wolański
to receive PLN 10 000
Pursuant to the rulebook of the programme, in its selection of projects to be completed, the committee considered the formal requirements of the applications and a number of substantive criteria which are provided for in the rulebook, and in particular: the adequacy of the submitted topics for the objectives of the programme, uniqueness of the research and the time needed to conduct it, realistic and manageable schedule and timetable of the research works with regard to their completion and delivery to the Institute before the deadline as specified in the rulebook, as well as the previous achievements of the researchers and their scientific experience and competence in the area they propose to research.
The projects selected to be financially supported concern the following issues:
- the areas of knowledge on the widely-conceived Polish culture in terms of music and dance that have been clearly under-researched or neglected;
- research into those phenomena in the Polish culture in terms of music and dance that have been entirely or partly overlooked, as well as those areas for which research has been started but not completed;
- documentation, edition and interpretation of source materials which are hard to find, dispersed, obscure or otherwise not sufficiently researched.
The selected projects cover a broad range of subjects, including traditional music and dance, diverse historical eras, from the eighteenth century until now, as well as a variety of genres.
Persons responsible for the implementation of the Programme:
Katarzyna Meissner – Director of the Institute of Music and Dance
Aleksandra Dziurosz – Deputy Director of the Institute of Music and Dance
Brygida Błaszczyk-Podhajska – Programme Manager, tel. 22 829 20 15, brygida.blaszczyk@imit.org.pl
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Appointment of the Commission (announcement in Polish)
Archival Announcements
Announcement from the Director of the Institute of Music and Dance of 20 May 2020 regarding the terms and conditions of submitting applications for the Programme ‘Blank Pages – Music and Dance’ 2020/2021
The final deadline for submissions of applications for the 2020/2021 edition of the programme is 30 June 2020.
The applications should be sent only in an electronic version.
A scanned and signed application form, along with Annexes a and b, should be sent in one PDF file to: imit@imit.org.pl with the following title of the e-mail message: ‘Blank Pages – Music and Dance’ – application.
The commission will select the applications on or before 27 July 2020. Afterwards, a list of the projects approved by the commission will be announced on the Institute’s website.
In the event that the budget of the Programme’s 2020/2021 edition be not used completely, the Director of the Institute of Music and Dance may arrange a second call for applications at a later date.
The budget for the Programme’s 2020/2021 edition amounts to PLN 150 000.
The application form can be found on the website of the Institute of Music and Dance below.
Persons responsible for the implementation of the Programme:
Katarzyna Meissner – Director of the Institute of Music and Dance
Aleksandra Dziurosz – Deputy Director of the Institute of Music and Dance
Brygida Błaszczyk-Podhajska – Programme Manager, tel. 22 829 20 15, brygida.blaszczyk@imit.org.pl
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