DAINA IR ATLIKIMAS: SANTYKIO VARIANTAI
SONG AND PERFORMANCE: POSSIBILITIES OF RELATION

Summary/Abstract: The article aims at discussing possible variants of relation between song and its performance. Relationship between song and performance is a complex one. Here, three essential variants have been discerned, defining logical possibilities sufficient to guarantee the survival of the song. They are as follows: 1) replication of a model, 2) creation or “invention” of a new piece, and 3) combination or “collage” of the ready-made textual or melodic variants. The third kind is especially typical for the late folk song recordings. These songs can rarely be obtained in the shape of “classical” variants; their genre attributes seem obscure, therefore in such cases there usually are classification problems to deal with, etc. On the basis of an extensive repertoire of one individual informant, as many as five most characteristic ways of combining various textual and melodic elements are distinguished in the present study. The theoretical perspective chosen here can be further applied and developed for analysing much larger masses of material.

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