Juozas Naujalis' Lithuanian church psalm book (1906) in the context of publishing lithuanian choral music

In Kaunas in 1906 Lithuanian church psalm book by J. Naujalis was published. It was in generalthe first Lithuanian catholic psalm book with notes for the choir and the organ. The Psalm bookgeneralized the reform of the church music introduced at the beginning of the 20th century. As sincethe ancient times there music had been a lot of psalms of Polish origin sing in Lithuanian part of themwas harmonized by J. Naujalis and included into his Psalm book. In this way the Psalm book reflectedthe convergence of Lithuanian–Polish singing tradition conditioned historically.J. Naujalis the Psalm book printed in M. Sokolovski and A. Estrin publishing house apparentlybecame not only the beginning of the Lithuanian notes publishing in Lithuania, but also the sampleof high quality notation culture. It is shown by the comparative analysis of the Lithuanian psalm book-song. The Psalm book was not published for the second time, because its psalms which literary textconstantly improved appeared in other psalm book