Congratulations to Evan Martschenko, a first-year PhD Theory student, for publishing an article in Music Theory Online, one of the discipline’s top peer-reviewed journals. Evan’s article, “‘Feel the Emptiness’: Micro-Schemata in the Music of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki,” demonstrates that a few key threads define Górecki’s compositional language even as his style ranged from Polish sonorism to repetitive tonality. Attention to these fixed aspects provides a new lens for appreciating Górecki’s stylistic evolution and sheds further light on the composer’s haunting expressive goals.
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