Music: A Part of Spiritual Culture

Culture and cultural activity, as defined by the Lithuanian philosophers A. Maceina and A. Šliogeris and the French philosopher E. Mounier. Example of the singer’s cultural disposition in the Lithuanian folk song Tu, dobilėli (“You little clover”) (link to recording, sung by the author). Spirit of a person as the source of culture. Importance of consciousness and its evolution for the person in general and the musician in particular (H. Berlioz). Concepts of hermeneutics and musical hermeneutics. Analysis of the understanding of the text in light of the sources of culture which lie concealed within the inner creative force of a person, with reference to the Lithuanian composer J. Švedas and writer B. Sruoga, active in the interwar period.