Abstract The present paper concerns the concept of ‘the Polish School of Composition’, well established in writings on music composed in the 2nd half of the 20th century, but still resisting attempts to define it clearly. I sum up the ways authors have talked about the Polish School of Composition to date, both from the internal (Polish) and external (foreign) points of view. I also examine the musical differentia specifica (such as aspects of style, composition technique and expression in works associated with this phenomenon) and the extramusical (mostly social and political) contexts which have determined the evolving approaches to the phenomenon in question. I begin with the origin of the term itself and discuss its subsequent interpretations until the present. From this perspective, the Polish School of Composition appears to be a kind of mythic narrative, a proposed way of ordering and understanding the past realities, transcending the categories of truth and falsehood, and working primarily in the sphere of emotions.

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波兰作曲学校

摘要 本文涉及“波兰作曲学派”的概念，该概念已在 20 世纪下半叶的音乐著作中确立，但仍拒绝对其进行明确定义的尝试。我总结了作者迄今为止从内部（波兰）和外部（外国）角度谈论波兰作曲学校的方式。我还研究了音乐差异规范（例如与这种现象相关的作品的风格、作曲技巧和表达方面）和音乐外（主要是社会和政治）背景，这些背景决定了所讨论现象的演变方法。我从这个术语本身的起源开始，并讨论它直到现在的后续解释。从这个角度来说，