„Polski Rocznik Muzykologiczny” – “Polish Musicological Yearbook” – was initiated by Adolf Chybiński in 1935. Unfortunately, only two volumes were then issued (the second one in 1936).
After nearly 70 years, in 2004, Musicological Section of the Polish Composers’ Union came back to that project and published the third issue, dedicated to two founders of Polish musicology: professors Zdzisław Jachimecki and Adolf Chybiński.
The Yearbook represent the whole spectrum of Polish scholars’ activity, including proceedings of musicological conferences organised by the Polish Composers’ Union. It contans papers in two languages: Polish and English.
Both the current volume and the past issues published since
2011 are available online at the Attribution–ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC
BY–SA 4.0) licence and can be read as pdf files in the ALL ISSUES menu.
Since 2016, thanks to efficient co-operation with Polskie
Wydawnictwo Muzyczne – PWM Edition – the main and prestigious music publisher
in Poland, apart from the internet version the Yearbook has gain its printed
version too.
In 2019, the homepage of the journal was launched, which was deeply rebuilt, upgraded and gained its new graphic design in 2023.
In the end of 2020, the publisher of the title – Polish Composers’ Union – signed an agreement with Sciendo, specialising in distribution and promotion of scientific journals.
In 2022 the “Polish Musicological Yearbook” joined the Biblioteka Nauki (The Library of Science) platform, which is developed by the ICM UW – Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling at the University of Warsaw.
At the beginning of 2024, our articles began to appear on the academic portal Academic Journals (https://academic-journals.eu).
Works on the portal in the years 2021–2023 were co-financed by the Minister of Education and Science as part of the two-year task “Modernization and update of web portals of the Library of the Polish Composers’ Union” under the “Social responsibility of science - Support for scientific libraries 2021” programme.
In 2024, we started implementing the project titled: “Increasing the visibility of the 'Polish Musicological Yearbook' in 2024–2025 on the national and international forum” possible thanks to support under the “Magazine” government program. Co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Polish Republic from the means of the Culture Promotion Fund.
The Patron of the „Polski Rocznik Muzykologiczny” – “Polish Musicological Yearbook” is the Society of Authors ZAiKS.
