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Pawel Lukaszewski is the famous contemporary Polish composer, born in 1968 in Czestochowa, educated in Warsaw, the full professor of composition at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music. His sacral and religious music gained the renown around the world. He was awarded with the ‘Orphee d’Or de l’Academie du Disque lyrique’ and nine ‘Fryderyk’ Awards in Poland. The prestigious vocal ensembles form Europe, Asia and America perform this music [1]. Lukaszewski's music of religious and sacred character operates largel...

Pawel Lukaszewski (Polish composer born in 1968) [1] belongs to the leaders of contemporary choir and religious music. His music is widely known not only in Poland but also abroad. It gained special recognition in Britain, where prestigious vocal ensembles perform it regularly. This music can be treated as the area of a special sounds space evoking the mystical space. Mystical space is built here upon the modern musical language using the elements of musical drama. This music also refers to the forms known form th...

Visual space and music seem to be the components of the real space, which are separated, and don’t come together but interaction of the rules of vision and sound can bring interesting research effects. I am convinced that the basis of visual arts can be adopted on the ground of music and deepen our knowledge about music of that time. In fact, visual and architectural space is around the composer and the listener. Moreover, it is experienced during musical performance and has a great impact on it. Areas of vision a...

In my paper I am going to consider the process of composing from the perspective of influences from space surrounding the author. I was inspired by environmental psychology – human factors science - as an interdisciplinary field that focuses on the interplay between individuals and their surroundings encompassing natural environments, social settings, built environments, learning environments, and informational environments. We know today that environmental psychology expands widely in attracting other areas of kn...

One of the contemporary famous architect Le Corbusier pointed out the time dimensions in architecture. He described it in his theoretical studies Vers une architecture first published in 1923 (English version titled Towards a New Architecture). In the same time some modern visionary composers reacted the references between space and music underlining a spacious character of sounds and inventing the new forms based on the spacious dimensions of music. My paper is about the possible connections between modern music ...