{"id":12674,"date":"2024-04-10T15:56:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T12:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaunomuziejus.lt\/plan-your-visit-to-the-folk-music-museum\/folk-music-museum\/permanent-exhibition-at-the-folk-music-museum\/"},"modified":"2024-04-22T16:29:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T13:29:35","slug":"permanent-exhibition-at-the-folk-music-museum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kaunomuziejus.lt\/en\/plan-your-visit-to-the-folk-music-museum\/folk-music-museum\/permanent-exhibition-at-the-folk-music-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Permanent Exhibition at the Folk Music Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The museum currently houses a permanent exhibition spread over two buildings, inviting visitors to experience the joy of music making. <\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Wind Instruments <\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The permanent exhibition presents folk wind instruments within the context of two themes of traditional culture: shepherding and multipart singing (sutartin\u0117s). Shepherds once played a variety of reed pipes, traditional flutes (lamzdelis), whistles and other simple instruments while herding their animals. Alongside the musical instruments, you will see a photo of a cow that came to listen to a shepherd playing some music. The shepherds knew that their music appealed to the animals. Wouldn\u2019t it be interesting to know what kind of music a cow would come to listen to? You can hear it in the museum.<\/p>\n

Folk music tunes played on panpipes and birch trumpets sound quite different from the music played by shepherds. Much like traditional multipart singing, this type of music has retained the archaic sound that was so valued by people in ages past. It is a shrill, enchantingly attention-grabbing and dissonant sound. You will have an opportunity to enjoy this sound and be transported to another time or even another world in the wind instrument section of the museum\u2019s permanent exhibition.<\/p>\n

And don\u2019t forget the sutartin\u0117s karaoke! Singing a sutartin\u0117, following a recording by an experienced performer, is really easy and interesting. No need to prepare in advance: right here in the museum you will learn how to sing a few simple sounds that will blend into the overall piece. It is an experience full of discovery and self-improvement.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The Zither<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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To what is perhaps the most important Lithuanian folk instrument, the zither (kankl\u0117s), there has been dedicated an entire separate section of the museum\u2019s permanent exhibition. Here you can learn every intricate detail about the Lithuanian tradition of playing kankl\u0117s, and explore samples of kankl\u0117s from various ethnographic regions. Kankl\u0117s come in many different forms (having between 4 and 20 or even more strings). Across Lithuania\u2019s different ethnographic regions, kankl\u0117s have features that are characteristic only of a particular local region. Not only do the instruments themselves differ (shape of the body, number of strings, decorative elements), but there also exist different styles of playing them. The history of the kankl\u0117s in the 20th century is also quite fascinating: at the beginning of the century, with the growth of Lithuanian national consciousness accelerating, several interesting phenomena took place in national music. Kankl\u0117s became increasingly popular and, simultaneously, underwent various transformations: kankl\u0117s with more strings and decorated with national ornaments and symbols were introduced. Young people learnt to play kankl\u0117s and formed ensembles. The museum exhibits not only old specimens of these instruments, but also those made in the middle and second half of the 20th century. The exhibition also features kankl\u0117s produced in diaspora.<\/p>\n

Besides listening to video and audio recordings of various types of kankl\u0117s played by traditional performers, and taking part in a quiz, visitors are equally offered an opportunity to touch the traditional old kankl\u0117s, replicas of the museum\u2019s antique exhibits. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Traditional Dance <\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Would you like to experience having a good time in a different way? The way that our grandparents used to do when they were young? Visit the interactive space, entitled \u2018Traditional Dances\u2019. Did you know that in the past, nobody in the villages danced the kind of Kepurin\u0117 that we see on the stage today? The elements of Kepurin\u0117 danced on stage are impressive, but they are only meant for the stage. n reality, Kepurin\u0117 used to be danced more lightly, requiring no special talent or physical training. Much in the same way that today\u2019s club-goers go dancing, Kepurin\u0117 was not danced for the sake of beauty or nationalism, but simply in order to have a good time. So, just relax! In this interactive space, you will find three games: \u2018Dance\u2019, \u2018Play\u2019, and \u2018Feel the Rhythm\u2019.<\/p>\n

During the \u2018Dance\u2019 game, you will learn how to dance two traditional dances with the help of virtual dancers. Believe us, they are exceedingly good! <\/p>\n

The \u2018Play\u2019 game invites you to improvise. How would you like the music to sound? You select the instruments, and the musicians play them. You don\u2019t like the sound of drums? Just tell them to stop. It is all in your hands. And when you have played around enough with the sounds, you can also take a test on how well you can recognise different musical instruments just from the sounds they make. <\/p>\n

The \u2018Feel the Rhythm\u2019 game may help you with discovering a new talent. You\u2019ll have to strike the tambourine. Of course, to make it harder and more interesting, you can try to keep up with real musicians. Try to beat out the rhythm the way they do.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Clamours, Lightning Bolts, Night Owls, and Black Horns<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Post-folklore is a broad genre of music that has emerged by combining folklore with other musical genres. In the late 20th century post-folklore music festivals began to be organised, featuring a number of varieties of this genre (folk-rock, folk-metal, popular folk, electronic folk and others). The popularity of such festivals shows that folklore remains important in the minds of modern people. <\/span><\/p>\n

The exhibition presents five post-folklore festivals that have a proven track record of continuity: Suklegos (\u2018clamours\u2019), M\u0117nuo Juodaragis (\u2018black-horned moon\u2019), Kilkim \u017eaibu (\u2018let\u2019s soar with a lightning bolt\u2019), Jotvos vartai (\u2018the gates of Jotva\u2019) and Saul\u0117tosios naktys (\u2018sunny nights\u2019). The exhibition features paraphernalia and photographs from these festivals, revealing the uniqueness and evolution of every single one of them.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Visit the exhibition and feel the true atmosphere of a music festival!<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Music-making at Churches, Schools, and in Homes <\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Imagine a cosy little wooden church in the Lithuanian countryside in the mid-19th century. Entering it, you hear the sounds of great church music. Without a large and expensive organ, what else might produce these sounds? In the museum\u2019s second building, a 16th-century house, you will encounter instruments used in the churches of villages and towns, as well as in schools and manors. The largest part of the exhibition consists of old pedal harmoniums. id you know that harmoniums, though visually resembling small organs or pianos, are actually closer to garmons? Make sure you find out why when you visit the museum. We promise you unexpected discoveries! <\/p>\n

Alongside the old harmoniums, the exhibition also displays instruments made in later periods, such as pianos and electronic organs.<\/p>\n

On display, you can also find a collection of old gramophones. Music by Kipras Petrauskas, Antanas \u0160abaniauskas, Petras Bir\u017eys (Pup\u0173 D\u0117d\u0117), and other famous performers and composers, made into special gramophone records, would often be played on such gramophones \u2013 manufactured all over Europe \u2013 in Lithuanian homes during the interwar period and later. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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