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Sonorism

Sonorism (Polish: Sonoryzm) is an approach to musical composition associated with a number of notable Polish composers. The scholar Józef Michał Chomiński coined the term "sonoristics" (Polish:

History#

Sonorism is rooted in the nationalistic movement of the 1920s called “Polish colourism”, whose best-known exponent is Karol Szymanowski. Sonorism as such was developed in the 1950s and 1960s as a means of gaining freedom from strict serialism, particularly by Krzysztof Penderecki, but also in a number of compositions by Grażyna Bacewicz, Henryk Górecki, Kazimierz Serocki, Wojciech Kilar, Witold Szalonek, Witold Rudziński, Zbigniew Bujarski, Zbigniew Penherski, and Zygmunt Krauze, amongst others (; ).

Composers associated with sonoristic composition#

  • Tadeusz Baird
  • Zbigniew Bujarski
  • Andrzej Dobrowolski
  • Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
  • Wojciech Kilar
  • Witold Lutosławski
  • Krzysztof Meyer
  • Krzysztof Penderecki
  • Bogusław Schaeffer
  • Kazimierz Serocki
  • Witold Szalonek

See also#

  • Sound mass
  • Spectral music

Further reading#

  • zgapa.pl (polish)
  • naukowy.pl (polish)
  • Biography of Lasoń at Polmic.pl (English, Polish)
  • Definition of Sonorism by Krzysztof Penderecki in his Alphabet (English, Polish)
Genre family
Experimental music
Region
Poland