This collection of scholarly articles is a periodical dedicated to raising and exploring fundamental issues in music composition. The 23rd volume of the Principles of Music Composing is focused on the interaction between the national and global. It should be noted that in the postmodern society of today, the concept of nationality raises a wide spectrum of debates. While ethnic music has served as one of the main potentials of national music for many centuries, in contemporary society the manifestation of one or another tradition in cultural texts raises a complex of problematic issues: the validity of the very concept of identity, the dissonances between ethnic and cultural identities, the primacy of one ethnic/cultural group over another vs their harmonious coexistence, the authentic living of ethnicity vs its cultural appropriation, etc. The interplay between the national and global seems to be more relevant than ever. Thus, the journal’s editors are engaged in finding the conditions and dimensions that allow the spontaneity of ethnic music to unfold in the 21st century, as well as discovering the various equivalents of nationality in the music of the post-national era.
Articles
- Pratarmė / Foreword
- 1 Nacionalumas versus globalumas: teorinės, filosofinės ir istorinės perspektyvos / National versus Global: Theoretical, Philosophical, and Historical Perspectives
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Ramūnas Motiekaitis.
The Spectrum of (National) Identity: Some Philosophical Considerations -
Eglė Gelažiūtė-Pranevičienė.
Traditional Lithuanian Culture in Today’s Musical Scene: Cultural Correspondence and Experiential Matrix -
Miloš Zatkalik.
Microtonality in Serbia: A (Paradoxical) Mediator between the National and Global - 2 Nacionalumo ir globalumo sąveika: atvejų analizės / Interaction between the National and Global: Case Studies
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Aare Tool.
Heroic Melodramas Kalevipoeg’s Dream and The Epilogue of Kalevipoeg by Rudolf Tobias: Background and Compositional Strategies -
Santiago Guerra Fernández.
Harmonizing Identities: Jewish Composers and the Cultural Fusion of Tango in Interwar Poland’s Third Space -
Arthur Kaptainis.
Pomp and Canadian Circumstance: Sir Ernest MacMillan’s Cortège Académique -
Manuel Domínguez Salas.
The Link between Julio Estrada’s Theory of Continuum with Different Theories and Musical Currents from Ancient Greece to the 21st Century -
Gvantsa Ghvinjilia.
The Interplay of National and Global in Georgian Music: Josef Bardanashvili’s Songs of Wine & Love as a Case Study - 3 Kūrėjo perspektyva / From the Perspective of the Creator
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George Holloway.
Composition as an Extension of Ethnomusicology: The Channelling of Traditional Gestures and Embellishments of Six Schools of Guzheng Playing in Hook for Solo Guzheng, and the Possible Role of Machine Learning as an Extension of “Transcription” in Compositional Practice -
Manos Panayiotakis.
Cultural Elements of Crete in Contemporary Composition -
Marius Baranauskas.
Combining the Principles of Symphony and Gamelan Orchestras in Marius Baranauskas’ Work Alrediph - Apie autorius / About the authors