The music of catholic additional devotions in Lithuania in terms of church documents: sacrum and profanum

Šios tematikos tyrimą atlikti paskatino šiandien Lietuvoje Katalikų Bažnyčios pridėtinėse pamaldose naudojama netradicinė religinė muzika (neaiškios kilmės giesmės, jų melodijos bei muzikos instrumentai (gitaros, bandžos, Afrikos tautų mušamieji ir panašiai) bei kai kuriuose etnografiniuose regionuose laidotuvių metu giedamos Taizé bendruomenės giesmės). Tyrimo rezultatai pagrindžia darbo pradžioje iškeltą hipotezę, kad keičiantis laikmečiams keičiasi ir Katalikų Bažnyčios žvilgsnis į tradiciją: vyksta jos rekrikščionizacijos (krikščionybės atsinaujinimo) procesasThe research was encouraged by the non-traditional religious music in additional devotions of Lithuanian Catholic Church (hymns of unknown origin, their melodies and musical instruments (guitars, banjos, African drums, etc.) and hymns of Taize community, sung in different regions during funerals). The object of the research: the music of additional devotions in Lithuanian Catholic Church. The aim of the research: to analyze the documents of the Catholic Church, concerning the music of additional devotions. The tasks of the research – firstly, following the documents of the Catholic Church, to describe additional devotions and the devotional practices, used in Lithuania; and secondly, to review chronologically printed documents of the Catholic Church, describing the musical culture sacrum of the additional devotions. Spare documents of the Church confirm the relevance and the originality of the research, and the music sacrum and profanum of Catholic additional devotions in the light of the Church documents is not described or analyzed in Lithuania; so it is one of the research objects in European Catholic religious history, ethnology and ethno-musicology. The first documents describing the music of the additional devotions of the Church go back to the year 1903. It is Pope Pius’ X 1903–1904 November 22 motu proprio “Tra le sollecitudini” which says that Church music is such music which is created for the worship of God and distinguishes itself by its sacredness and harmony of forms. The other document “De musica sacra” in 1958 states that the Church music consists of Gregorian chant, different old and modern Church polyphony, sacred music for the organ or other instruments used in the Church and sacred or liturgical and religious (folk – auth. note) singing. Another document of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments devoted to musica sacra is dated on September 26, 1964.[...]Vytauto Didžiojo universiteta