The project “On the Way with the International Musical Avant-Garde: Projections of Microtonal Music in the Works of Contemporary Lithuanian Composers” (principal investigator Rima Povilionienė; researcher Vytautas Germanavičius) seeks to conceptualize, within the history of Lithuanian music, the sequence of modern compositional intentions and outcomes.
The project “On the Way with the International Musical Avant-Garde: Projections of Microtonal Music in the Works of Contemporary Lithuanian Composers” (principal investigator Rima Povilionienė; researcher Vytautas Germanavičius) seeks to conceptualize, within the history of Lithuanian music, the sequence of modern compositional intentions and outcomes related to the field of microtonal music as a direct or indirect response to the phenomena of the international musical avant-garde. The project traces these developments across different historical periods: beginning approximately in the 1930s with the works of Jeronymas Kačinskas; later continuing in émigré contexts with the ideas of Vytautas Jančys; the
integration of quarter-tones as a coloristic device in the music of Vytautas Juozapaitis, Vytautas Barkauskas and others in the 1970s–1980s; and extending to the systematic approach of Rytis Mažulis, as well as to recent examples in the twenty-first century, such as the creation of original sound worlds in the music of Justė Janulytė Repečkaitė and Vytautas Germanavičius, among others.
