Trijų Kryžių Kalno Muzika: Kaimynų Ar Vietos Tradicija?
The Music of the Three Crosses Hill: A Local or Neighbouring Tradition?

Summary/Abstract: The article researches the music of the Three Crosses Hill in Vilnius. Its prayers and hymns are not mentioned in any liturgical or prayer book published in Lithuania. There follows the natural question of whether the hymns and music performed by the pilgrims on the hill of Three Crosses are the relics of local or foreign culture? To find the answer to this question is the object of the research of the author. The research shows that the music of Three Crosses Hill in Vilnius is not of mythological or folkloristic origin. It is the reflection of intercultural past and present events of a Catholic historical and geopolitical nature.

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