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Sonorism is an approach to musical composition that focuses on the characteristics, quality, and texture of sound. This emphasis on sound is inherently connected with a search for new types of sounds, and sonorism relies on experimenting with instruments to create novel playing techniques.

Sonorism - the direction in contemporary music, belongs to the avant-garde currents of the Second, typical mainly for Polish music in the sixties, cząsto synonymous with the term "Polish Composers' School.

In sonoryzmie and form-creating element highlighted was the same wording, usually extracted from non-traditional modes of traditional instruments (scraping, creaking and thumping on the box of a cello). This trend started a Train and I Penderecki String Quartet, the two songs composed in 1960. Took it and developed Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki (Genesis I, II, Choros I), Wojciech Kilar (RIFF 62, Generique), Kazimierz Serocki (symphonic frescoes), Andrzej Dobrowolski, Zbigniew Rudzinski. Witold Szalonek (including Les sons) has distinguished himself by exceptionally revelatory approach to wind instruments, which developed such technique of playing multiple stops (the sounds combined - in the Oboe there are about 160). The choral music was the most original contribution Andrzej Koszewski. Sonorystą was the youngest Polish Krzysztof Meyer (first string quartets and symphonies).

The works sonorystycznych no melody, rhythm or harmony in the traditional sense of those terms - they assume the role of different types of sounds. Determine changes in the form of a song sounds and textures and dynamics, which becomes the primary way to develop a drama piece. Are common in the works sonorystycznych two types of conduct forms:

characteristic sound idea - the idea of contrasts - a synthesis of both ideas at the end of the track the culmination of the gradual growth of the whole team performed, the maximum dynamic - or, on the contrary, the reduction (as in the chorus Gorecki) Sonorystycznym works often accused of being 'directory results. In fact, arose during the period, which you later composers as "experimental." Of the measures developed in later years to compose a work much more complex, closer to the traditional symfonice or chamber music, which is exemplified above all Passion St. Luke Krzysztof Penderecki.

As a movement, sonorism was initiated in the 1960s in the avant-garde of Polish music.

[edit] Notable sonoristic composers

• Grażyna Bacewicz
• Tadeusz Baird
• Andrzej Dobrowolski
• Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
• Wojciech Kilar
• Witold Lutosławski
• Krzysztof Meyer
• Krzysztof Penderecki
• Bogusław Schaeffer
• Kazimierz Serocki
• Witold Szalonek
• Avet Terterian

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