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Andrzej Panufnik's Music and Its Reception.(Book Review)

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Andrzej Panufnik's Music and Its Reception. Edited by Jadwiga Paja-Stach. (Acta Musicologica Universitatis Cracoviensis, 11.) Krakow: Musica Iagellonica, 2003. [274 p. ISBN 8-7099124-6. Z160.] Music examples, analytical charts, indexes.

In his 1987 autobiography, Composing Myself (London: Methuen, 1987) Andrzej Panufnik made the following observation about the significance of geometry in his compositional technique:

 
  I felt that geometric shapes could provide my compositions with an 
  unseen skeleton within which my harmonic, melodic and rhythmic 
  concept could be bound together as a cohesive whole: an organized 
  framework out of which both spiritual ...
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