Lithuanian Folk Music

Lithuanian folk music is the traditional music of Lithuania, centred on the dainos, a vast repertory of lyric and ritual songs, and on the sutartinės, archaic multipart songs in which two or three voices interlock in canon at the interval of a second, inscribed by *UNESCO* in 2010. Its instruments include the kanklės zither, skudučiai panpipes, reed horns, the dūdmaišis bagpipe and fiddle, played by village ensembles for calendar feasts, weddings and funerals. Since the late Soviet period a strong revival, led by groups such as *Kūlgrinda* and *Atalyja*, has carried the repertory from archive to stage.