Proceedings of a conference held in Cieszyn on 17-18 November. The presented papers are divided into three groups, corresponding to the three elements appearing in the conference title (editor’s preface). The brief reports include profiles of three little-known Polish composers. The following music theorists and composers gave presentations during the conference:

Papers:

• Jolanta Bauman-Szulakowska The aesthetic evolution of 20th-century Silesian music
• Anna Granat-Janki The work of Wrocław composers 1945-1999
• Teresa Dorożała-Brodniewicz Poznań Music Spring - metamorphoses of the festival
• Leon Markiewicz The 5th Symphony - Bolesław Szabelski’s opus summum
• Anna Nowak Contemporary Polish piano concerto. Back to tradition?
• Andrzej Wójcik, Łukasz Tofilski The antiquity in the ideas and views of 20th-century composers
• Walentyna Węgrzyn-Klisowska The idea of colourism in 20th-century Polish music
• Ewa Kowalska-Zając The meeting-point of cultures - serialism in the works of Roman Haubenstock-Ramati
• Andrzej Dziadek The contemporary idiom of symphonic music
• Wiesław Cienciała Number as an inspiration for constructing the elements of musical language
• Halina Lorkowska Mirosław Bukowski’s vocal lyrical works
• Bogumiła Mika Music and “Generation X” - the image of a young artist

Reports:

• Ewa Bocek-Orzyszek Jan Gawlas (1901-1965) - on the centenary of his birthday
• Henryk Orzyszek Henryk Tondera (1903-1986) - musician and folklorist
• Dorota Susuł Kazimierz Jurdziński’s (1894-1960) works for organ - an outline