Słowa kluczowe: Maria Szymanowska, nocturne, John Field, variation technique, programme music, Aleksander Zarzycki, Polish music of the nineteenth century, piano works, solo songs, Mieczysław Weinberg, borderland, identity, Krzysztof Zajas, cartoons in Central and Eastern Europe, musical representations of the past, music in cartoons, music digitisation, ethnomusicology, musical folklore, Adolf Dygacz, memory studies, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, twentieth-century music, chamber music, Polish music, composition techniques, Aria (‘operatic scene’), Concerto for Five Instruments and String Quartet, Quartettino, Little Music 4, audiovisuality, Simon Steen-Andersen, Black Box Music, music object