The article is devoted to an ethnomusicological, musical-textological, and performing analysis of the traditional dance the Hutsulka. The material is an audio recording of an anonymous wedding band from the Galician-Hutsul part of the Ukrainian Carpathians, made in the first half of the 20th century. This recording is included in the album ‘Music of the Ukraine’ released by the studio Folkways Records USA (vinyl, 1951). As the oldest known audio recording of the Hutsulka, the piece ‘Hutsulka and Kozachok Dances’ is characterised by an original interpretation of the genre at the musical form-building and thematic levels. Based on an analysis of the musical form, the melodic scale and the rhythmic structure, typical features of the performance style of the Kosmach-Brustury tradition are revealed. They are especially evident in the playing by the fiddler and fuyarnist. The identity of the fiddler was established hypothetically, by comparing these data with the testimonies of respondents.
5-oji tarpdalykinė mokslinė konferencija „Tradicijos ir modernybės sąveika“, vykusi 2019 m. lapkričio 20–21 d. Klaipėdos universitete bei Telšių vyskupo Vincento Borisevičiaus kunigų seminarijoje, skirta Žemaitijos vardo paminėjimo rašytiniuose šaltiniuose 800-osioms metinėms ir Telšių vyskupo Vincento Borisevičiaus kunigų seminarijos atkūrimo 30-mečiui. Klaipėdos universiteto Socialinių ir humanitarinių mokslų fakultete susirinko per 30 pranešėjų iš įvairių Lietuvos ir užsienio šalių mokslo ir studijų institucijų.
Šiuolaikinėje lietuvių, latvių ir estų muzikoje atsispindi ypatingas reiškinys – baltiškasis fenomenas, susijęs su gelmės gausmu, bangų ciklais, dimensijos augimu ir apokaliptiniu transcendentalizmu. Jo bruožai yra tarsi amžinybės stilius – begalinė melodija, ritmo monotonija, gelmių jėgos telkimasis ir lūžis į Nušvitimą. Jo reikšmėse glūdi ir religinis, ir gamtiškasis panteistinis aspektai, ir ieškojimai „kitos erdvės“ bei vizijos horizontalės paradigma. Tai galima įvardyti kaip baltiškąjį fenomeną, motyvuojamą išlikimo atšiauriomis geopolitinėmis sąlygomis, konfrontuojant su Rusijos imperializmo grėsme. Šią koncepciją praplečia ir savaip sutvirtina naujas lietuviškos tapatybės rekonceptas – posūkis į baroką ir europines vertybes per kultūros brandą, raiškos polifoniją, valstybingumo patirtį, dvasinį Apšvietos racionalizmą.
The article sheds light on the importance of Candlemas candle as a subject apotropei. The emphasis is laid on the magical actions related to the protection of an individual and the specific protection of the common living space (home, farmstead). The suggested conclusions concern apotropei functions of Candlemas candles and transformation of the symbolic forms of protection in the second half of the XX – early XXI cent. The main provisions of the article are illustrated with the materials collected in the course of ethnographical expeditions.
Jam tetrūko mėnesio iki 65-ojo gimtadienio. Jį išplėšė iš mūsų rudeniškas sausis, toks nesveikai drungnas, sumaišęs gyvybės ir mirties ciklus, savo neatšaukiamu kirčiu užbaigęs stoišką kovą su liga. Gruodžio pabaigoje siųsdamas kalėdinį atviruką su tikėjimo, vilties ir meilės žodžiais vis dar tikėjausi stebuklo. Stebuklas neįvyko. Pasakyti gražiausius, tikriausius žodžius mes apmaudžiai vėluojame. Ypač geliamai tai suvoki, kai į tylos pasaulį išeina artimiausi, mylimiausi – tie, kurie tokių žodžių labiausiai nusipelnė, kurie dosnia ranka juos sėmė ir sėjo būdami gyvi. Dabar, jau po laiko dėliojant atsisveikinimo žodžius, jauti savo pastangų bergždumą, nes tikrieji žodžiai tarsi pasitraukė anapus, o likę šiapus atrodo netikri. Dabar norėtum švarios tylos – norėtum toje tyloje susigrąžinti jo veidą, balsą, juoką, vėl įsukantį į buvimo sūkurį ir uždegantį gyvenimui.
The research presented in this article discusses the specificity of health discourse, which has not been described yet in Lithuanian linguistics: it is strived to substantiate the title of the discourse under analysis and present one of the possible ways of analysis. The approach to language that is close to cognitive linguistics is taken into consideration, thus it is strived to describe the fragment of health discourse with reference to the theory of metaphorical model. On the basis of the examples drawn from daily newspaper “Komjaunimo tiesa” of 1980–1989 years and daily newspaper “Lietuvos rytas” of 1990–2001 years it is compared how during more than 20 years, metaphorical WAR model has been realized in Lithuanian public discourse.
There are three prefaces in Christian Gottlieb Mielcke’s (1733–1807) dictionary Littauisch-deutsches und Deutsch-littauisches Wörter-Buch (1800). The first is written by the compiler himself; the second by Daniel Jenisch (1762–1804), a Berlin theologian and linguist; and the third by Christoph Friedrich Heilsberg (1726/7–1807), a counsellor in the Königsberg Chamber of War and Domains and inspector of East Prussian schools. The ‘Friend’s Note’ (Nachschrift eines
Freundes) of the philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) is placed after all of them. It is a friendly, quite short, one-and-a-half-page commentary on the Lithuanians and their language, written in free form, and cannot be called a true preface.
The article analyses the circumstances of the appearance of Kant’s ‘Friend’s Note’ in the dictionary, and discusses the ideas expressed in it.
The article notifies the significance of the cultural dialogue which has the history of four centuries, the dialogue between Prussian Lithuania and Lithuania Proper. Taken into account are the peculiarities of ethnic formation of both areas, as well as different strategies of assimilation policy used by Prussia and Russia. Consequently, these different strategies were accepted differently and yielded different effect. The activity of two cultural societies, that of Litauische literarische Gesellschaft, and that of Birutė is taken for comparison in the aspect of rising Lithuanian national self-consciousness, and the emphasis is laid upon sociopsichological aspects of the dialogue (which was not always direct) rather than upon historical or cultural parallels. To refresh run-of-the-mill academic attitude and discourse, unconventional literary means of the detective genre are put to use as a compositional and stylistic instrument.
The purpose of the article is to determine the typological characteristics of decoration of the delmonas of Lithuania Minor and of the national costume pockets of neighbouring nations. This article discusses Klaipėda region delmonas, the pockets of Estonian, Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian costume, and the attachable pockets of noble class’s attire of various nations preserved in museums. The decorations of the pockets were studied to support or refute the influence of the fashion of nobility and of international relations on folk costume decor formation and change. The research allowed to identify the decorating techniques, pattern variation and matching features of the pockets.
The article examines the letters of Kleofas Jurgelionis (1886–1963; Kleopas Jurgelionis, USA – Ray Jurgen), who was a moderniser of Lithuanian poetry, a literary critic, a translator, an editor of periodicals, publicist and lawyer, to Valerija Tysliavienė (1914–1984), who from 1938 to 1940 was a secretary of his newspaper “Tėvynė”, preserved at the Klaipėda University Library (KUB RSS). These letters (1949–1961) are very rich in content, in them the subject themes are abundantly weaved with courtship. This article discusses the topics of Jurgelionis’s letters to Tysliavienė. Taking into account the reasearch into Jurgelionis’s life and creative works and the KUB RSS archive and publications, this article sets out a twofold purpose: to discuss the content of Jurgelionis’s letters to Tysliaviene and to discuss poetry manuscripts and their publications with a textological lens.First of all, this article discusses the general features of the letters, then the article touches upon the dominant topics in the letters. Another, co-stored material is used for interpreting the letters: dozens of letters from the poet to other people; a letter from Henrietta Jurgen, his third wife, to Tysliavienė; several poetry poems; manuscripts of articles revealing new details about his life and the origins of his creative work, his relationship with the Lithuanians in the USA, the activities of the Lithuanian Writers’ Society (USA), the behind the scenes look at the operations at the newspaper “Vienybė”, the cultural and social life of the emigrants, etc.; as well as a bundle of the American Lithuanian periodicals from the archive of “Vienybė”.