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, Grażyna Bacewicz, and

Kazimierz Serocki Kazimierz Serocki (3 March 1922 – 9 January 1981) was a Polish composer and one of the founders of the Warsaw Autumn contemporary music festival. Life Serocki was born in Toruń. He studied composition with Kazimierz Sikorski and piano w ...

. According to Polish music scholar Adrian Thomas, Zygmunt Mycielski used the term at the Łagów conference in 1949, and it was later used at the 1956

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festival.Thomas 2005, p. 159 Their common purpose was in part retrospective, reacting to

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, and in part speculative.

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and

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: ''sonorystyka'') to describe the urge to expl ...

influenced these post-war composers.Rappoport-Gelfand pp. 68-69

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*Pollack, Howard (1999). ''Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man''. Henry Holt and Company * Rappoport-Gelfand, Lidia (1991). ''Musical Life in Poland: The Postwar Years, 1945-1977''. Gordon and Breach * Thomas, Adrian (2005). ''Polish Music Since Szymanowski''. Cambridge University Press

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