Zagadnienie polichóralności w polskich badaniach muzykologicznych
Polish Musicological Research into Polychoral Style

Summary/Abstract: The present article is devoted to selected views regarding polychoral style to have appeared in the writings of Polish musicologists. A brief survey of those views forms the starting point for an attempt to pinpoint how ‘polychoral style’ has been defined by scholars (the context of Polish music serves here only as a background). Their views are then confronted with definitions found in the Western musicological literature. Special emphasis is placed on the so-called Italian schools of composition, especially the ‘Venetian polychoral school’. Another major issue discussed in the article is the inconsistent use of the term cori spezzati by scholars, who often treat it as synonymous with polychoral technique.

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