Vytautas Jurgutis' music is dominated by vocal and chamber instrumental genres. Various compositional techniques - dodecaphony, aleatory, sonoristic effects - are combined with tonality and polytonality. In his music there are evident links with the elements of Lithuanian folk music: the composer uses trichordal intonations, rhythms and harmonies of the old Lithuanian polyphonic songs sutartinės, combining them with the above mentioned 20th century techniques. Polyphonic and polymetric writing is also characteristic of most of Jurgutis' compositions.
