Hi Stuart, I am not a specialist in modern music, but I know fantastic book about Josef Koffler: Maciej Golab *Józef Koffler: Compositional Style and Source Documents*, [Translated by Maksymilian Kapelański, Linda Schubert and Marek Żebrowski]. With a foreword by Antony Polonsky and a CD of examples edited by Mateusz Gołąb. Polish Music History Series, Vol. 8, Los Angeles 2004, pp. 318.
look at: http://www.usc.edu/dept/polish_music/pmhsbooks/historyser.html#no8 Have fun Grzegorz Dnia 21-10-2010 o godz. 23:27 Stuart Walsh napisał(a): > Just a bit of serendipity. I came across a website with a little folk > song setting by Josef Koffler (1920s), who, it seems, went on to become > a modernist composer. I suppose the melody is a real folk song, but I > really don't know. And the accompaniment is a very simple ostinato, a > whole-tone fragment. The picture is from Google images with the entry > 'Poland 1920s' but ot could be anyone from anywhere. Or maybe it's a > really famous image? > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vym0zWq4Ms4 > > > Stuart > > > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
