Katarzyna Lidia Babulewicz

The following article concerns contemporary Polish music publishing houses, which in their offer have publications for children who start musical education during professional training. The author presents this area of Polish market in a synthetical way, as well as observes and analyzes tendencies which are visible there. Key market operators are mentioned with short descriptions of their publishing profile, preferred instruments and composers, editorial conditions etc. Few examples of publications are described in a more detailed way—i.e. publications from the offer of three publishing houses: Studio Bis, Crescendo and Euterpe. In the last case, the author interviewed Małgorzata Flis, the illustrator of this publishing house. All the examples are analyzed in an interdisciplinary, editorial-musicological way.

ABSTRAKT

Tematem artykułu jest działalność współczesnych polskich wydawnictw muzycznych, mających w swojej ofercie publikacje dedykowane dzieciom rozpoczynającym swoją edukację muzyczną. Autorka w syntetyczny sposób prezentuje ten obszar polskiego rynku, jak również obserwuje i analizuje obecne na nim tendencje. Wymienia także kluczowe wydawnictwa, prezentując krótko profil ich działalności, preferowane instrumenty, kompozytorów, warunki edytorskie itp., w sposób bardziej szczegółowy omawiając wybrane publikacje trzech domów wydawniczych: Studio Bis, Crescendo i Euterpe. W ostatnim przypadku autorka przeprowadziła wywiad z Małgorzatą Flis – ilustratorką wydawnictwa Euterpe. Wszystkie przykłady zostały zanalizowane w sposób interdyscyplinarny – zarówno ze strony edytorskiej, jak i muzykologicznej.

The subject of this article are the composition strategies employed to represent the past in animated films produced in the integrated cultural space which Central-Eastern Europe constituted during the communist era. Productions made in two countries, the Soviet Union and in Poland, have been considered. Film examples have been discussed in approximate chronological order, according to the time of production of individual cartoons. By selecting specific movies I do not intend exhaustively to analyse these audio-visual works. I have limited myself to reviewing thematic threads related to the past and, in this context, ideas and tendencies in film music composition.

Tadeusz Kocyba’s Music for Porwanie Baltazara Gąbki TV series

The article presents the synthetic analysis of the soundtrack of Tadeusz Kocyba (1933–2007) for the 13-episode series titled Porwanie Baltazara Gąbki [The Abduction of Balthazar Sponge] (1969–1970, dir. by W. Nehrebecki, A. Ledwig, E. Wątor, J. Byrdy and al., Animation Films Studio in Bielsko-Biała). The soundtrack is analysed in the strict context of the film narration and the visual layer of the movies in order to present the composer’s strategies in terms of instrumentation, musical implication of emotions dictated by the plot, illustrative music, creating of the characteristics of places, using of the leitmotivs. Among the features that are characteristic for the soundtrack of this series there is the significant meaning and construction of the themes that are connected with the figure of the antagonist, referring twice to the musical identification of the existing region (theme song – Krakowiak dance and the quotation from the St Mary’s Trumpet Call), the lack of concentration on shaping of the clear themes, high diversity of the musical line, the lack of mickey-mousing and the special position of two instruments: clarinet and jonika, which have various functions.

Piotr Hertel (1936–2010)—a composer of film, theatrical and stage music (among others the hit Parasolka to words of Janusz Słowikowski). He is the author of music for numerous cartoons made in the animation studio Se-Ma-For in Łódź, including soundtracks for  egendary TV series Miś Uszatek and Plastusiowy pamiętnik. The aim of the article is to characterize music composed by Hertel for the above-mentioned as well as several other movies in the context of his views on the role of music in cartoons and his compositional technique. The broader knowledge on this topic was gained thanks to the interview made with the members of Hertel’s family: his wife Jadwiga and son Michał.

Piotr Hertel as a Composer of Cartoons Soundtracks

Piotr Hertel (1936–2010) – a composer of film, theatrical and stage music (among others the hit Parasolka to words of Janusz Słowikowski). He is the author of music for numerous cartoons made in the animation studio Se-Ma-For in Łódź, including soundtracks for legendary TV series Miś Uszatek and Plastusiowy pamiętnik. The aim of the article is to characterize music composed by Hertel for the above-mentioned as well as several other movies in the context of his views on the role of music in cartoons and his compositional technique. The broader knowledge on this topic was gained thanks to the interview made with the members of Hertel’s family: his wife Jadwiga and son Michał.