Musica Iagellonica, vol. 4, 2007 CONTENTS Jakub Kubieniec (Cracow) The Office of St. John the Almsgiver in Cracow 5 Aleksandra Patalas (Cracow) Music theory of Giovanni Maria Artusi in the polemical writings and in the music of Marco Scacchi 19 Piotr Wilk (Cracow) The sonate da chiesa by Aldebrando Subissati—the court violinist to Jan Kazimierz, King of Poland 49 Renata Suchowiejko (Cracovie) « Les Franckistes » et la musique de chambre 79 Anna G. Piotrowska (Cracow) Neoclassicism in the Concept of Michał Spisak (on the example of Sinfonia concertante no. 1) 89 Małgorzata Woźna-Stankiewicz (Cracow) Artistic attitudes in the 20th century and the problem of tradition in the auto-reflection of Baird, Kilar and Meyer 113 Stanisław Będkowski (Cracow) A Farewell to the Avant-garde—Krzesany by Wojciech Kilar 143 Jadwiga Paja-Stach (Cracow) Witold Lutosławski's Epitaph for oboe and piano (1979) against the background of the composer's style characteristics 163 Alicja Jarzębska Chaconne in memoria del Giovanni Paolo II and Penderecki's search for a universal music language 177