W poszukiwaniu wyrazowych wartości słowno-muzycznych na przykładzie współczesnego utworu chóralnego "Lacrimosa" Mindaugasa Urbaitisa
In Search for Word-Music Expressive Values, On the Basis of "Lacrimosa" — The Contemporary Choral Composition by Mindaugas Urbaitis

Summary/Abstract: The evolution and style of contemporary Lithuanian music have been dependent on historical-political factors and circumstances. During the Soviet occupation the development of Lithuanian music was substantially limited. Socialist realist aesthetics was favoured in art. For every divergence from the established norms, the composers were persecuted and criticised. In the 70s the censorship has been mitigated, which increased possibilities of search for nontraditional ways of composing music. Contemporary means and systems of Western modern music such as: dodecaphony, sonorism, and collage, started to be used. The language of music acquired the characteristics of rational thinking, and elements of folk music started to be used without restraint, becoming of more and more individual character. Many artists started their search for their own, original style. They began developing nontraditional genres and musical forms. Among the most distinguished composers of the new style of Lithuanian contemporary music one may enumerate: Bronius Kutavičius (1932), Osvaldas Balakauskas (1937), Feliksas Bajoras (1934). As a result of this search, twenty years later, Mindaugas Urbaitis (1952), a well-known contemporary composer wrote "Lacrimosa" for a mixed choir (S1S2A1A2T1T2B1B2) a cappella, basing on "Lacrimosa" from "Requiem" — the musical material of W.A. Mozart. Urbaitis called this transformation a “recomposition” — the act of composing the already created music anew. In this article an analysis of "Lacrimosa" by M. Urbaitis, with regard to the word-music expressive values, has been conducted. This composition was dedicated to all those who died in the fight for the liberation of Lithuania.

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