| Abstract [eng] |
Ethnic culture is a constantly evolving and recurrent phenomenon which keeps changing due to historic, economic and social processes. Being a composite part of ethnic culture, ethnic music is also suscepti-ble to inevitable processes of change. A lot of Lithuanian ethnic musical instruments have undergone var-ious changes. Pan flutes, the pipes made from any grass, as well as pan piped dissonant polyphonic music have experienced a multi-dimensional evolution within a reasonably short period of time – slightly more than one hundred years. New ways of playing music have appeared, and the repertoire for pan flutes has faced a divide be-tween ethnic and academic music performed by this type of instru-ment. The elements of ethnic culture played a major role in preserving and developing ethnic culture, national awareness and identity. The present research focuses on a very specific area of culture, namely, ethnic culture and ethnic music, the culture of pan piping in particular. Pan piping culture is an ongoing phenomenon of national culture comprised of such elements as the instrument, music, tradition of play-ing music and existential context of these elements in time and space. The object of this research is forms and functions of pan piping culture (such elements as the instrument, music being played by this instrument and traditions of playing music in particular) in the 20th and 21st century. The objective of the thesis is to determine the phases and peculiari-ties of pan piping culture development predetermined by national ide-ology of the 20th and 21st century and to examine the most prominent features of pan piping culture and its education. |
