Lithuanian Composers and the Wind Band: The Possibility of Emerging the Art Music Repertoire
Lithuanian Composers and the Wind Band: The Possibility of Emerging the Art Music Repertoire

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the research was to identify the attitude of Lithuanian composers towards the wind band Ten Lithuanian composers were interviewed. The results of the research showed that although composers’ attitude towards wind bands was very different, in general they agreed with the assumption that the contemporary paradigm of the wind band as a performer of entertaining commercial music is one of the main obstacles to enhancing its position as an important artistic unit. It becomes obvious that a possibility of emerging serious wind band literature in Lithuania depends on several interconnected factors among which bandmasters’ concernment and especially composers’ awareness and determination to compose wind band music are extremely important.

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