This collection of scholarly articles is a periodical dedicated to raising and exploring fundamental issues in music composition. The 24th volume of Music Composition Principles invites readers to explore the role of ethnicity in contemporary contexts. The aim of the publication is to reconsider the significance of ethnicity in the music of the 20th and the 21st century with a focus on highlighting the aesthetic and technical possibilities of its expression. A survey of the history of Western professional music reveals that ethnic aspects have often been reduced to a function of recognizability, while their realization has typically relied on broadly shared cultural and structural principles. However, shifting paradigms of thought encourage a reevaluation of the relationship between the ethnos and the modern creative individual and prompt a search for new functional and structural solutions. It is noteworthy that in contemporary contexts ethnicity may manifest itself through highly diverse and sometimes unexpected assemblages: from a unifying or segregating factor of identity to commercially oriented appropriations aimed at mass consumption; from established traditional modes of expressing ethnicity (modal, rhythmic, or timbral) to compositional strategies informed by the (psycho)acoustic explorations of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The spectrum of issues encompassed by the theme Ethno- in Contempo is explored in this volume through articles by authors representing diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds, which are grouped into three thematic sections.
Articles
- Pratarmė / Foreword
- I. Etniškumo apraiškos šiuolaikybėje: teorija ir praktika | Ethnic Consciousness in Contemporary Approaches: Theory and Practice
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Daiva Račiūnaitė-Vyčinienė.
Sutartinės as a Sign of Lithuanian Identity: The Interaction Between Ethno- and Contempo -
Yusuke Ishii.
Reframing the Folk Song—the Compositional Approaches of Jonas Švedas (1927–1981) -
Marius Baranauskas.
Structural Elements of the Gamelan Orchestra: A Contemporary Approach - II. Ethno- in contempo (re)interpretacijos: paieškos, įtakos, sintezės | (Re)interpretations of Ethno- in Contempo: Explorations, Influences, Syntheses
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Paula Mladin.
Romanian Folklore: Transfer and Reinterpretations in Transylvanian Contemporary Music. The Cluj School of Composition -
Jan Bielak.
Adhan, Tarab and Songs. On the Orient of Karol Szymanowski -
Gvantsa Ghvinjilia.
Synthesis of Georgian Ethnic Rituals and European Music Traditions in Sulkhan Nasidze’s Symphonic Triad: A Study of National Identity and Universal Themes -
Sanna Iitti.
Klezmer References in Clarinet Concerto by Kimmo Hakola -
Nana Amowee Dawson.
The Interplay of Genres: Ethno-Contempo Fusion in “Sika” by Okyeame Kwame and Kofi Kinaata - III. Kūrėjo perspektyva | From the Perspective of the Creator
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Aistė Vaitkevičiūtė.
Resonances of Bells in the Domains of Speech, Ethnomusic, and I Ring This Bell (2022–2024) by Aistė Vaitkevičiūtė -
Desislava Dobreva.
Practices in Bulgarian Ethno-pop Music - About the authors