The dialogue of human geography with musicology: reflections on the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw in the context of musical analogies

Abstract

The article is the effect of “dialogue” of human geography and musicology. It presents the author’s approach of analysis and description of urban space with the using of musical analogies through the Warsaw case study. The main goal of this article is to present this approach, which is transposition of musical phenomena into the urban space, and to explain selected analogies between the musical and urban composition. The elements chosen for consideration are dominant and tonic. They are constructively common to music and urban planning. In this article the author presented that the centrality of the Palace of Culture and Science can be compared to the musicological regularity of the centripetal reference. The author presented also the approach’s deficiency and discussed its universality in various spatial scales.