Since 1981 the group Trys keturiose (6 women: Daina Norvaišytė, Eglė Sereičikienė, Birutė Vilkauskienė, Rima Visackienė, Daiva Vyčinienė, the leader, and Audronė Žilinskienė ) specializes in the performance of original Lithuanian polyphonic songs Sutartines. These songs stand out from the rest of Lithuanian folklore due to their numerous use of seconds, entwined  voices, accentuated rhythmical pattern and the simultaneous sound of two different texts (main and refrain). All these qualities of the polyphonic songs require an extraordinary concord of performers, a habit of singing together or “sutarimas” (the name Sutartines was derived form verb “sutarti”– to agree, to accord). Thus, it is not by accident that since the old times Sutartines have been sung in small groups (2, 3 or 4 women). Nowadays, the tradition of singing Sutartines in Lithuanian rural regions is dead. Various city folklore groups keep up the tradition.

Trys keturiose (“three in four”) are words of one refrain, which playfully reflect at times changing, at times constant composition of this group (sometimes there are three and sometimes there are four singers, or three singers permanent and the fourth changes). As the group Trys keturiose has long experience of singing traditional songs, it does not copy the sound of the 1935/37-archive records. The group pursues its own sound as well as it aspires to give modern meaning to the old songs.

Contacs:  Daiva Vyčinienė

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