Contemporary Music Editions
MILC 076
Rytis Mažulis (*1960)
Twittering Machine for 4 pianists. Vilnius: Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre, 2007, 14 pp. (parts)
MILC 077
Teisutis Makačinas (*1938)
Book for Piano. Polyphonic Exercises III for piano (ed. by Sergejus Okruško). Vilnius: Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre, 2008, 65 pp. (score)
MILC 078
Bronius Kutavičius (*1932)
Dzūkian Variations for chamber orchestra. Vilnius: Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre, 2008, 54 pp. (score)
Lithuanian Classical Series
MILC KL011
Jeronimas Kačinskas (1907–2005)
Choir Songs (ed. By Vaclovas Augustinas): You Are, Heaven; Birch Tree; Lithuanian Pathways; The Sun Is Setting; Little Amber; Bellflowers; Travel Song; Through the Woods; Oh, What Happened. Vilnius: Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre, 2008, 45 pp. (score)
MILC KL012
Jeronimas Kačinskas (1907–2005)
Religious Choirs (ed. by Vaclovas Augustinas): Haec Dies for mixed choir; Te lucis ante for mixed choir and organ; Confirma Hoc for male choir; Missa brevis for male choir; Terra tremuit for mixed choir and organ; Rex Christe for female choir; Nativity Hymn for mixed choir; Maria for mixed choir; Virgin, Mother for male choir; Great and Mighty for mixed choir; Credo for soprano solo or soprano group and male choir. Vilnius: Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre, 2008, 35 pp. (score)
MILC KL013
Justinas Bašinskas (1923–2003)
Two Pages from the Diary for flute, cello and piano. Vilnius: Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre, 2008, 18 pp (score), 10 pp. (parts)
MILC KL014
Justinas Bašinskas (1923–2003)
Dialogues for flute and piano. Vilnius: Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre, 2008, 20 pp. (score), 6 pp. (parts)
MILC KL015
Justinas Bašinskas (1923–2003)
Aquarius Ballade for cello and piano. Vilnius: Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre, 2008, 24 pp. (score), 6 pp. (parts)
MILC KL016
Juozas Gruodis (1884–1948)
À la Chopin for violin and piano. Vilnius: Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre, 2009, 11 pp. (score), 4 pp. (parts)
MILC KL017
Juozas Gruodis (1884–1948)
Oriental Dance for violin and piano. Vilnius: Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre, 2009, 8 pp. (score), 2 pp. (parts)
MILC KL018
Juozas Gruodis (1884–1948)
Song of the Sea for violin and piano. Vilnius: Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre, 2009, 8 pp. (score), 2 pp. (parts)
MILC KL019
Juozas Gruodis (1884–1948)
Waltz for violin and piano. Vilnius: Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre, 2009, 15 pp. (score), 4 pp. (parts)
Lithuanian Music Anthologies
MILC AT004
Solitude. Lithuanian Music for Flute Solo (compiled and edited by Valentinas Gelgotas):
Galina Savinienė. Parcelle; Jonas Tamulionis. Diptych; Zita Bružaitė. Prelude; Jurgis Juozapaitis. Segles; Jurgis Juozapaitis. Aphrodite; Antanas A. Budriūnas. Sketches; Snieguolė Dikčiūtė. Solitude. Vilnius: Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre, 2007, 38 pp. (score)
MILC AT005
The Road to Silence. Lithuanian Music for Organ (compiled and edited by Jūratė Landsbergytė):
Giedrius Kuprevičius. Prelude in Memory of M. K. Čiurlionis; Jeronimas Kačinskas. Short Fantasy; Algirdas Martinaitis. Remembrance of Bright Blossoms of the Night; Onutė Narbutaitė. Three Evening Reflections; Onutė Narbutaitė. The Road to Silence; Vidmantas Bartulis. The Vision of 17 July, 1750; Donatas Prusevičius. O-Me-Ba; Eglė Sausanavičiūtė. Introduction and Chorale "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern"; Feliksas Bajoras. Nine Pieces; Gracijus Sakalauskas. "Domine, clamavi ad te". Chorale, Four Meditations and Post Scriptum; Jonas Tamulionis. Prayer. Vilnius: Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre, 2008, 120 pp. (score)
MILC AT006
Monologues. Lithuanian Music for Cello Solo (compiled and edited by Rimantas Armonas):
Feliksas Bajoras. Essay I; Feliksas Bajoras. Essay II; Valentinas Bagdonas. Preludium; Valentinas Bagdonas. Humoresque; Juozas Širvinskas. Improvisation; Juozas Širvinskas. Toccata; Vladas Švedas. Loneliness; Anatolijus Šenderovas. Cantus I; Anatolijus Šenderovas. Cantus II; Arvydas Malcys. Floating Splinters. Vilnius: Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre, 2008, 50 pp. (score)
MILC AT007
Narcissus. Lithuanian Music for Viola Solo (compiled and edited by Robertas Bliškevičius):
Arvydas Malcys. Narcissus; Algirdas Martinaitis. Swayxtix; Eglė Sausanavičiūtė. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night; Rasa Bartkevičiūtė. Solo; Vytautas Barkauskas. Two Monologues; Algirdas Bružas. Apnoea; Valentinas Bagdonas. Composition. Vilnius: Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre, 2009, 36 pp. (score)
MILC AT008
Silhouette. Lithuanian Music for Violin Solo (compiled and edited by Rusnė Mataitytė):
Jeronimas Kačinskas. Introduction and Toccata; Jonas Tamulionis. Sonata; Osvaldas Balakauskas. La valse No. 1; Osvaldas Balakauskas. La valse No. 2; Anatolijus Šenderovas. Cantus in memoriam Jascha Heifetz; Vytautas Barkauskas. Silhouette; Jurgis Juozapaitis. Quasi improvvisazione; Feliksas Bajoras. Threshold. Vilnius: Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre, 2009, 44 pp. (score)
Lithuanian Music / History and Context
A series of the conference proceedings and special issues published by the Musicological Section of the Lithuanian Composers’ Union, 2000–2009 (General Editors Rūta Stanevičiūtė and Audronė Žiūraitytė). This catalogue contains a selection of publications on Lithuanian music and musicology.
For news and resources in this area, please visit the websites of the Lithuanian Composers’ Union and the Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre.
For specific publications, please contact the Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre by sending an email to info@mic.lt.
For all other enquiries:
info@lks.lt
Musicological Section
Lithuanian Composers’ Union
A. Mickevičiaus 29
08117 Vilnius, Lithuania
Vytautas Bacevičius in Context
Eds. Rūta Stanevičiūtė and Veronika Janatjeva
Vilnius: Lithuanian Composers’ Union, 2009, 152 pp. (in English)
Paperback ISBN 978-609-8038-00-2
Contributors: Jacques Amblard, Olesya Bobrik, Krzysztof Droba, Małgorzata Gąsiorowska, Edmundas Gedgaudas, Vita Gruodytė, Małgorzata Janicka-Słysz, André Lischke, Ona Narbutienė, Rūta Stanevičiūtė, Eva Velická
Vytautas Bacevičius (1905–1970) is one of the most enigmatic and intriguing figures in the history of 20th-century Lithuanian music. Born into a Lithuanian-Polish family of talented musicians in Poland, he arrived in Lithuania in the 1920s and became an active participant of the local modern music scene. His studies in interwar Paris and contacts he made there with the international community of musicians had a formative influence on him both as a pianist and composer. In the 1930s he was one of the initiators to establish the Lithuanian section of the ISCM (launched in 1936). At the time he advocated some of the most radical ideas on how to modernise Lithuanian music, opposing the locally accepted narrow understanding of musical nationalism. The cataclysmic change in world’s politics and culture in the aftermath of World War II had a direct impact on Vytautas Bacevičius’s later artistic development, as well as on the dissemination of his ideas. During the three decades spent in exile (from 1939), he experienced a painful break in his activities as a pianist and a composer and change in his artistic orientations and reorientations, so characteristic of the European émigré artists who have settled in the new continent.
For a long time the work of Vytautas Bacevičius has been silenced and even prohibited in Soviet Lithuania for political reasons. The return of his music to the Lithuanian music scene was complicated and difficult. It was not until 2005 that a broader retrospective of his works was presented as Vytautas Bacevičius Festival and comprehensive publications of his music were issued (including scores and CDs) on the occasion of his birth centennial.
This collection of essays started out at the international conference of musicologists “Vytautas Bacevičius (1905–1970) and His Contemporaries: International Links and Contexts of the First Lithuanian Music Avant-garde” that was held as a part of the Bacevičius’s anniversary programme at the Lithuanian Composers’ Union in September 2005. For the first time the composer’s international contacts and the contexts of his works and activities were analysed within the broader history of the 20th-century Eastern and Central European music and as its typical case. This collection comprises texts by Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Czech and French musicologists prepared on the basis of their conference papers. Among the main sub-themes of this collection are the sources and parallels of Vytautas Bacevičius’s modern ideas about music; his relationships with the members of the School of Paris and the modern music scene of interwar France; the French contexts of Eastern and Central European composers in the mid-20th century; and their emigration to the United States of America.
Poetics and Politics of Place in Music
Proceedings from the 40th Baltic Musicological Conference. Vilnius, 17–20 October 2007 (eds. Rūta Stanevičiūtė and Lina Navickaitė-Martinelli)
Lithuanian Composer’s Union, UMWEB Publications, 2009, 335 pp. (in English and German)
Paperback ISBN 978-952-5576-07-8
Contributors: Miguel Álvarez-Fernández, Eva-Maria v. Adam-Schmidmeier, Beata Baublinskienė, Paulo F. de Castro, Rūta Gaidamavičiūtė, Mart Humal, Baiba Jaunslaviete, Jūratė Katinaitė, Aleksi Malmberg, Dario Martinelli, Marija Masnikosa, Bogumila Mika, Danutė Petrauskaitė, Tijana Popović Mladjenović, Haiganuş Preda-Schimek, Živilė Ramoškaitė, Emilija Sakadolskis, Kaliopi Stiga, Marta Szoka, Audronė Žiūraitytė
The Baltic musicological conferences began in 1967, as annual meetings of an independent network for Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian musicological communities. Over forty years they have been migrating between Riga, Vilnius and Tallinn, thereby enriching local musicological traditions and reaching wider international acceptance. In post-Soviet years the Baltic musicological conferences opened up to wider international context as a forum for musicologists, specialising in all kinds of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural studies.
In 2007, the 40th Baltic Musicological Conference was organised in Vilnius by the Musicological Section of the Lithuanian Composers’ Union in association with the International Musicological Society. Devoted to the links of music as creative practice and experience to its social and cultural contexts, the topic of the conference “Poetics and Politics of Place in Music” included the following aspects: sense and representation of place in music and politics of cultural identity; embeddedness of music in cultural context and intercultural exchange; local vs. global in musical creativity and its reception; genius loci and conceptualisations of local soundscapes, and others.
The essays contained in this collection of the conference’s proceedings explore how these ideas have been expressed in Europe and Baltic diasporas in the U.S. from the 19th to the 21st centuries. Twenty contributions from all over Europe (Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Poland, Serbia, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Austria, Germany, Lithuania) are subdivided into in three sections:
- Music and Cultural Identity: (Re)debating National and Modern
- Space, Place, and Individual Expression
- Migration, (De)contextualization and Politics of Representation
