The “cover story” of this issue is an interview with Grzegorz Michalski, director of the National Frederic Chopin Institute, much of which centres on the relations between this institution and the Frederic Chopin Society. The latter claims its rights to a vast proportion of the Chopin heritage. Michalski greets with satisfaction the statement made by Kazimierz Gierżod, president of the Frederic Chopin Society, that Chopin ought to unite, not divide, and expresses his hopes for effective co-operation between the two. Other highlights include the interview with Mirosław J. Błaszczyk, artistic...

The 5th volume of a new series by “Res facta”, a publisher with a 35-year experience, presents the life and work of Charles Seeger (1886-1979), an American musicologist who was praised by Henry Cowell as “America’s intellectually most profound music researcher, and musicology’s greatest experimenter”. His vision of philosophical musicology is presented by the edition’s secretary Maciej Jabłoński, who devotes a separate article to the problem of musical work analysis in modern musicology. The volume also contains Jan Stęszewski’s selection of texts by the ethnomusicologists Robert Lach...

The “Music Perception” quarterly is one of the world’s leading periodicals on music psychology (which, despite the fashionable “interdisciplinary” tag, remains the focus of its interest). This issue contains a description of experiments with musical expectations, perception of rhythmic structures, and the development of the perfect pitch (with the results). The volume also contains an announcement about “The Neurosciences and Music - Mutual Interactions and Implications for Developmental Functions” conference to be held in Venice in October 2002 roku, the table of contents and list of...