Sounds, Societies, Significations

Part I. Musical Creation and Perception as a Socio-cultural Phenomena

1.
Labyrinthes d’Adrien by Costin Miereanu or the Topology of Ruptures and Junctions
Oana Andreica

2. The Diversity of Artistic Work as a Response to the Needs of Contemporary Culture: On Adam Walaciński’s Oeuvre
Ewa Czachorowska-Zygor

3. A Phenomenon of String Quartet in the Works of Kraków Composers from 1960s
Ewa Wójtowicz

4. Music and Associations: Cultural Impact on Musical Perception
Ulrika Varankaitė

Part II. Establishing the Musical Identities. Cultural, Political and Social Perspectives

5. Stanisław Moniuszko’s Oeuvre as a Builder of National Identity During Partition Times
Magdalena Chrenkoff

6. Music as National Identity Manifesto: The Musical Repertoire of Lithuanian Evenings at the Beginning of the 20th Century
Rima Povilionienė

7. New Romanticism in Polish Music. Generation 51—Knapik, Krzanowski, Lasoń
Kinga Kiwała

8.
Via Crucis and Resurrectio by Paweł Łukaszewski: In the Circle of Christian Culture
Renata Borowiecka

Part III. Analytical and Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Musical Text

9. Musical Narrative in Representing Hiroshima: A Case Study of Erkki Aaltonen’s Second Symphony Hiroshima (1949)
Yumi Notohara

10. The Theme of Death in the Music of Paweł Łukaszewski
Renata Borowiecka

11. Religious Motifs and Existential Reflection in Zbigniew Bujarski’s Chamber Music
Ewa Wójtowicz

12. Musitecture: Musical Space, Spatial Music. Sonorous Thresholds in Time-Space Intersections
Gerard Guerra López

Part IV. Research into Popular Music

13. The Years of 883: Italian Popular Music at the Time of Commercial Broadcasting
Jacopo Tomatis

14. “Where Is the Orchestra?” The Sanremo Festival Through the 80s and the 80s Through the Sanremo Festival
Jacopo Conti

15. Political and Ethical Values of the Music of Manowar
Paolo Ribaldini

Part V. A Survey of Musical Signification

16. Musical Signification: A Systematic, Analytical and Pedagogical Approach
Joan Grimalt

Keywords: Education, Creativity and Arts Education, Music, Cultural Heritage, Semiotics