About Sutartinės Notation
Sutartinės are Lithuanian multipart songs built on two to five pitches, sung in parallel seconds or in strict canon — two equal parts staggered against each other, one voice syncopated. The rub of the second is not a flaw to be resolved; it is the song.
This system takes its surface from the archive rather than the concert hall: Mykolas Miežinis's handwritten sheet of about 1849, LMD I 754 nr. 20. Browned rag paper, iron-gall ink faded to sepia, a hard right slant, words underscored instead of bolded, and one large blot left where it fell.
- Origin
- Aukštaitija, northeast Lithuania
- Era
- pre-1900 — manuscript ca. 1849; the sung tradition far older, textual traces to the 14th century
- Key figures
- Mykolas Miežinis · Zenonas Slaviūnas
- Movements
- 19th-century Lithuanian folklore collecting · Lithuanian Literature and Folklore Institute archive (LMD) · UNESCO intangible cultural heritage
Sutartinės Notation design spec
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