Sutartinės

Summary

Sutartinės are Lithuanian multipart song traditions particularly associated with northeastern Aukštaitija. Small groups interlock short melodic and textual parts, producing a distinctive rhythmic and intervallic texture. The name suggests agreement or concord, but that concord is achieved through coordinated difference rather than everyone singing the same melody together. Song, words and restrained movement can form one performance. The category concerns a specific family of local and revived practices, not every Lithuanian folk choir or a generic ancient sound detached from the people who learned and reinterpreted it.

Contemporary and trending

Sutartinės continue through specialist groups, community teaching, festivals, archives and contemporary artistic projects. Some performers focus on inherited techniques and repertories, while others create new settings or combine them with different media. Deliberate revival plays a significant role and should be described openly rather than presented as uninterrupted everyday singing in every locality. Researcher-performers connect scholarly understanding with practical knowledge, and younger participants learn through listening and coordinated action. The result is a living interpretive field whose contemporary value does not depend on pretending that its original work and seasonal contexts remain unchanged.

History

Local work, calendar, family and other occasions supplied diverse texts and functions. Collectors and researchers preserved material as social conditions changed, while recordings and teaching made particular forms accessible beyond their original communities. Heritage recognition and institutional support later helped sustain public visibility and transmission. The history should include the women whose voices and knowledge formed much of the documented singing tradition, not only the scholars who classified it. Contemporary performance often reconstructs or adapts relationships known through archives, showing how careful research can support new participation without erasing the distance between historical and present settings.

Musical characteristics

Interlocking entries, short repeated patterns, syncopation and close intervals are characteristic possibilities, with different arrangements according to the number and organization of performers. A second can sound like purposeful tension rather than a mistake requiring correction into a conventional chord. Different words and musical material may sound simultaneously, making coordinated attention essential. Some forms include movement, and related instrumental practices have their own arrangements. Listen to one part until its pattern becomes familiar, then follow another entry and the composite pulse. The overall texture becomes clearer through the relationship among lines rather than by searching for a single foreground melody.

Geography and communities

Northeastern Aukštaitija supplies the principal rooted landscape, including the communities around Rokiškis, Kupiškis, Utena and Zarasai and the country between them. These are examples of a connected cultural region, not instructions for four isolated small circles. Vilnius and other urban centers support important research, ensemble and teaching activity, which deserves gentler additional coverage. The map should distinguish that revival and institutional world from the historic local heartland while allowing them to overlap. It does not claim that all Lithuanian people share the same musical practice or that archive density measures present audience size.

Artists

Trys Keturiose provides a useful route into performance informed by research, while local groups and documented tradition bearers remain equally important reference points. Daiva Vyčinienė's role as researcher and practitioner illustrates how analysis and musical participation can reinforce one another. The appropriate representative list is therefore not limited to commercial solo stars. Compare groups identified by repertory and arrangement, noticing entry order, texture and movement. An innovative contemporary work can be heard alongside a more historically focused rendition to understand which organizing principles remain recognizable and which serve a new artistic design.

Representative performances

These recordings offer listening examples of the genre. Notes identify the performance setting and any adaptation or mixed repertoire.

MuGlobe listening profile

Repertoire	Field use	Notes
traditional	regional	Comprehensive catalogue; recent discovery is prioritized and worthwhile older music remains playable. Preserve specific recording contexts and dates.

MuGlobe representative performances

Artist	Performance / song / title	Embedded player URL	Notes	Repertoire kind	Repertoire date	Recording date	Format	Opening	Places	Fit	Evidence	Review note	MuGlobe favorite	Current hit	Authentic
Trys Keturiose	Dūno, dūno upė	https://www.youtube.com/embed/9kVqipJbsgU	The Lithuanian embassy links this performance as an example of the ensemble’s sutartinės singing. Interlocking voices and repeated short phrases provide a focused polyphonic listening example.	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	pending	Existing recording	Legacy accepted recording retained during curation-field migration; no new age or geographic claims.	false	false	false
Vilnius University folklore ensemble Ratilio	Dijūta kolnali — Šokame sutartines	https://www.youtube.com/embed/YN6tK-XH83U	Ratilio’s own presentation identifies a trejinė sutartinė and its published source. This short staged singing-and-dance example complements Trys Keturiose without confusing all Lithuanian choral music with sutartinės.	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	pending	Existing recording	Legacy accepted recording retained during curation-field migration; no new age or geographic claims.	false	false	false
Trys Keturiose	Trys Keturiose 11 - Užaugo liepa, Lithuanian trance-like keturinė LIVE	https://www.youtube.com/embed/J6zIyfufs1M	Užaugo Liepa, keturinė performed 21 July 2019 at the BALTICS traditional singing course in Antalkiai. The 2025 upload explicitly says it is six years later. Actual singers named: Daiva Račiūnaitė-Vyčinienė, Rima Visackienė, Daina Norvaišytė and Eglė Sereičikienė. Source: MusiqueMonAmour. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained. Video publication: 2025-07-21; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	2019-07-21	live	unknown	country:Lithuania	supported	Recording/context source	Užaugo Liepa, keturinė performed 21 July 2019 at the BALTICS traditional singing course in Antalkiai. The 2025 upload explicitly says it is six years later. Actual singers named: Daiva Račiūnaitė-Vyčinienė, Rima Visackienė, Daina Norvaišytė and Eglė Sereičikienė. Source: MusiqueMonAmour. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained.	false	false	false
Trys Keturiose	Trys Keturiose - sutartinė "Gervela, dai čiūto" (Lithuanian folk glee)	https://www.youtube.com/embed/Wbyn61KgaqA	Gervela, Dai Čiūto, complete polyphonic song from Kokiu Giedosim, Kokiu Sutarysim? Bird footage illustrates the record; it is not claimed to show the singers performing. No overlapping full album selected. Source: Baltic folk. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained. Video publication: 2014-02-02; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Lithuania	supported	Recording/context source	Gervela, Dai Čiūto, complete polyphonic song from Kokiu Giedosim, Kokiu Sutarysim? Bird footage illustrates the record; it is not claimed to show the singers performing. No overlapping full album selected. Source: Baltic folk. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained.	false	false	false
Trys Keturiose	Trys Keturiose_ Du dobilėliu, Trys ratilėliu ( Sutartinė)	https://www.youtube.com/embed/7nuawywAkk8	Du Dobilėliu, Trys Ratilėliu, specifically named sutartinė with the actual ensemble explicitly credited. Published 2012; original session date unknown. Source: Vambuolė. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained. Video publication: 2012-07-15; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	live	unknown	country:Lithuania	supported	Recording/context source	Du Dobilėliu, Trys Ratilėliu, specifically named sutartinė with the actual ensemble explicitly credited. Published 2012; original session date unknown. Source: Vambuolė. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained.	false	false	false
Trys Keturiose	Sutartinių festivalis Sesė Sodų Sodina 2014 TRYS KETURIOSE Sodi lakštutė	https://www.youtube.com/embed/4Z8sdPfAgFc	Sodi Lakštutė, source identifies the 2014 Sesė Sodų Sodino festival at Rokai. A complete short nightingale song, not an interview or generic harmonized Lithuanian choir arrangement. Source: Baltic folk. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained. Video publication: 2014-12-14; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	2014	live	unknown	country:Lithuania	supported	Recording/context source	Sodi Lakštutė, source identifies the 2014 Sesė Sodų Sodino festival at Rokai. A complete short nightingale song, not an interview or generic harmonized Lithuanian choir arrangement. Source: Baltic folk. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained.	false	false	false
Trys Keturiose	Trys Keturiose Sutartinė apie aukso obuolėlius Šiaudų Sodų Konferencijoje	https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ef7H2bnFAuw	Sesė Sodų Sadina, a named sutartinė about a golden apple tree, sung as a conference opening. The surrounding scholarly conference is not mistaken for the content of this focused musical performance. Source: Baltic folk. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained. Video publication: 2015-04-24; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	live	unknown	country:Lithuania	supported	Recording/context source	Sesė Sodų Sadina, a named sutartinė about a golden apple tree, sung as a conference opening. The surrounding scholarly conference is not mistaken for the content of this focused musical performance. Source: Baltic folk. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained.	false	false	false
Trys Keturiose	Trys Keturiose: Linelius Surišėm (Skamba kankliai - Sutartinių giedojimas)	https://www.youtube.com/embed/6C349VWczNg	Linelius Surišėm, source explicitly supplies complete flax-harvest sutartinė text and identifies the Skamba Skamba Kankliai performance. Short complete music remains valid; no instructional talk imported. Source: Baltic folk. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained. Video publication: 2015-03-16; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	live	unknown	country:Lithuania	supported	Recording/context source	Linelius Surišėm, source explicitly supplies complete flax-harvest sutartinė text and identifies the Skamba Skamba Kankliai performance. Short complete music remains valid; no instructional talk imported. Source: Baltic folk. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained.	false	false	false
Fusedmarc with Trys Keturiose	Fusedmarc & Trys Keturiose - Waft	https://www.youtube.com/embed/7fOuSqrq4-M	Waft, primary source explicitly presents sutartinės in an electroacoustic collaboration. Recorded at its premiere 11 October 2010 at Tonlagen, Hellerau, Dresden; Lithuanian repertoire performed abroad. This is labelled a contemporary adaptation, rather than unchanged historical practice. Source: Fusedmarc Archive. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained. Video publication: 2011-03-11; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	popular	unknown	2010-10-11	live	unknown	country:Lithuania	supported	Recording/context source	Waft, primary source explicitly presents sutartinės in an electroacoustic collaboration. Recorded at its premiere 11 October 2010 at Tonlagen, Hellerau, Dresden; Lithuanian repertoire performed abroad. This is labelled a contemporary adaptation, rather than unchanged historical practice. Source: Fusedmarc Archive. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained.	false	false	false
Sasutalas	„Ažu vario vartelių“. Kauno KC sutartinių giedotojos SASUTALAS. ATATARIA LAMZDŽIAI Kaune. 2023 06 02	https://www.youtube.com/embed/sL84CeVUR_s	Ažu Vario Vartelių, Kaunas Culture Centre singers at Atataria Lamzdžiai,2 June 2023. Andrius Morkūnas is the group leader; source does not turn the sound engineer into a singer. Source: Albinas Vaškevičius. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained. Video publication: 2023-06-03; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	2023-06-02	live	unknown	country:Lithuania	supported	Recording/context source	Ažu Vario Vartelių, Kaunas Culture Centre singers at Atataria Lamzdžiai,2 June 2023. Andrius Morkūnas is the group leader; source does not turn the sound engineer into a singer. Source: Albinas Vaškevičius. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained.	false	false	false
Sasutalas	„Tūto be tūto“. Kauno KC sutartinių giedotojos „Sasutalas“ „Atataria lamzdžiuose Kaune. 2023 06 02	https://www.youtube.com/embed/vZ_fsmQlfkI	Tūto Be Tūto, separate named song at Atataria Lamzdžiai, Kaunas,2 June 2023. No entire parent concert is selected along with its cuts. Source: Albinas Vaškevičius. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained. Video publication: 2023-06-03; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	2023-06-02	live	unknown	country:Lithuania	supported	Recording/context source	Tūto Be Tūto, separate named song at Atataria Lamzdžiai, Kaunas,2 June 2023. No entire parent concert is selected along with its cuts. Source: Albinas Vaškevičius. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained.	false	false	false
Sasutalas	Sutartinė „Tūto, tūto, tūto valyjo” (Tatkūnų k.)	https://www.youtube.com/embed/SfcBjOIagNo	Tūto, Tūto, Tūto Valyjo, from Tatkūnai, explicitly performed by Kaunas Culture Centre’s sutartinės group at the 40 th Atataria Lamzdžiai festival. Published 2026; exact session date unknown. Artūras Sinkevičius is sound engineer. Source: KTKC Kauno tautinės kultūros centras. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained. Video publication: 2026-05-25; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	live	unknown	country:Lithuania	supported	Recording/context source	Tūto, Tūto, Tūto Valyjo, from Tatkūnai, explicitly performed by Kaunas Culture Centre’s sutartinės group at the 40 th Atataria Lamzdžiai festival. Published 2026; exact session date unknown. Artūras Sinkevičius is sound engineer. Source: KTKC Kauno tautinės kultūros centras. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained.	false	false	false
Sasutalas	Dai kas padunda (Rimšė). Kauno KC sutartinių giedotojų grupė SASUTALAS Kaunas 2024 02 04	https://www.youtube.com/embed/4D43pBdQbhU	Dai Kas Padunda, Rimšė repertoire performed in Kaunas 4 February 2024. Different dated performance from the 2023 church rendition, rather than a second camera of the same event. Source: Albinas Vaškevičius. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained. Video publication: 2024-02-10; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	2024-02-04	live	unknown	country:Lithuania	supported	Recording/context source	Dai Kas Padunda, Rimšė repertoire performed in Kaunas 4 February 2024. Different dated performance from the 2023 church rendition, rather than a second camera of the same event. Source: Albinas Vaškevičius. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained.	false	false	false
Sasutalas	Trys bičių, dobile (Rageliai). Kauno KC sutartinių giedotojų grupė SASUTALAS Kaunas 2024 02 04	https://www.youtube.com/embed/IZQD_igq1Oc	Trys Bičių, Dobile, Rageliai repertoire, performed in Kaunas 4 February 2024. Complete short song by the named actual group, not a generic teaching excerpt. Source: Albinas Vaškevičius. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained. Video publication: 2024-02-10; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	2024-02-04	live	unknown	country:Lithuania	supported	Recording/context source	Trys Bičių, Dobile, Rageliai repertoire, performed in Kaunas 4 February 2024. Complete short song by the named actual group, not a generic teaching excerpt. Source: Albinas Vaškevičius. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained.	false	false	false
Sasutalas	„Teka upełė duinoja“. Kauno KC sutartinių giedotojos SASUTALAS. ATATARIA LAMZDŽIAI Kaune. 2023 06 02	https://www.youtube.com/embed/YCZYZxod4U4	Teka Upėlė Duinoja, separate work performed at Atataria Lamzdžiai, Kaunas,2 June 2023. Named local practitioners, not all other choir members from generic programme biographies. Source: Albinas Vaškevičius. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained. Video publication: 2023-06-03; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	2023-06-02	live	unknown	country:Lithuania	supported	Recording/context source	Teka Upėlė Duinoja, separate work performed at Atataria Lamzdžiai, Kaunas,2 June 2023. Named local practitioners, not all other choir members from generic programme biographies. Source: Albinas Vaškevičius. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained.	false	false	false
Sasutalas	Pokrovskije Kolokola 2021. Koncertas Rotušėje (16) - Sasutalas	https://www.youtube.com/embed/PO6jdJUVEtw	Complete named sutartinės presentation at Vilnius City Hall 13 November 2021 for Pokrovskije Kolokola. One programme counts once; its same-event individual cuts are not selected. Source: VJ etnofolk. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained. Video publication: 2021-11-30; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	2021-11-13	live	unknown	country:Lithuania	supported	Recording/context source	Complete named sutartinės presentation at Vilnius City Hall 13 November 2021 for Pokrovskije Kolokola. One programme counts once; its same-event individual cuts are not selected. Source: VJ etnofolk. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained.	false	false	false
Sasutalas	Dai kas padunda. Sutartinė. Vytauto Didžiojo bažnyčia. Kaunas 2023 12 08	https://www.youtube.com/embed/YULsY7l-Leo	Dai Kas Padunda, specifically dated 8 December 2023 at Vytautas the Great Church, Kaunas. Same traditional work as the 2024 rendition, but a separately documented performance. Source: Albinas Vaškevičius. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained. Video publication: 2023-12-12; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	2023-12-08	live	unknown	country:Lithuania	supported	Recording/context source	Dai Kas Padunda, specifically dated 8 December 2023 at Vytautas the Great Church, Kaunas. Same traditional work as the 2024 rendition, but a separately documented performance. Source: Albinas Vaškevičius. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained.	false	false	false
Sasutalas	Dobilėli dobilio (Tatkūnai). Kauno KC sutartinių giedotojų grupė SASUTALAS Kaunas 2024 02 04	https://www.youtube.com/embed/vYwTH2L24nE	Dobilėli Dobilio, Tatkūnai repertoire performed in Kaunas 4 February 2024. Different named song from the same event; no full parent show selected. Source: Albinas Vaškevičius. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained. Video publication: 2024-02-10; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	2024-02-04	live	unknown	country:Lithuania	supported	Recording/context source	Dobilėli Dobilio, Tatkūnai repertoire performed in Kaunas 4 February 2024. Different named song from the same event; no full parent show selected. Source: Albinas Vaškevičius. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained.	false	false	false
Honeypaw	Aš pasėjau apynėlį - Sutartinė played on treeharp	https://www.youtube.com/embed/NoOUBEASPug	Aš Pasėjau Apynėlį, a performed tree-harp/vocal adaptation of Slaviūnas archive SlSIII 1748, Tverečius. Jurgita Žvinklytė and Matti Palonen describe their Lithuanian-funded research and a deliberately regularized seven-beat arrangement. Playing and voice were recorded separately; this is music, not instrument construction instruction. Source: Honeypaw. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained. Video publication: 2020-08-24; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	music-video	unknown	country:Lithuania	supported	Recording/context source	Aš Pasėjau Apynėlį, a performed tree-harp/vocal adaptation of Slaviūnas archive SlSIII 1748, Tverečius. Jurgita Žvinklytė and Matti Palonen describe their Lithuanian-funded research and a deliberately regularized seven-beat arrangement. Playing and voice were recorded separately; this is music, not instrument construction instruction. Source: Honeypaw. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained.	false	false	false
Honeypaw	Turėjo liepa devynias šakas - Sutartinė played on Treeharp	https://www.youtube.com/embed/Vpv332Y4y2M	Turėjo Liepa Devynias Šakas, a researched tree-harp/vocal arrangement from Slaviūnas archive SlSII 1203 a, Šimonys. Actual Lithuanian repertoire adapted by Honeypaw, rather than an untouched field recording.2025/26 tour advertisements appended to the 2020 upload do not redate this session. Source: Honeypaw. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained. Video publication: 2020-08-31; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	music-video	unknown	country:Lithuania	supported	Recording/context source	Turėjo Liepa Devynias Šakas, a researched tree-harp/vocal arrangement from Slaviūnas archive SlSII 1203 a, Šimonys. Actual Lithuanian repertoire adapted by Honeypaw, rather than an untouched field recording.2025/26 tour advertisements appended to the 2020 upload do not redate this session. Source: Honeypaw. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained.	false	false	false
Honeypaw	Honeypaw - Untinas untalį vadinojo - Treeharp and Kanklės	https://www.youtube.com/embed/BjZjDE8445g	Untinas Untalį Vadinojo, tree-harp and kanklės arrangement of Slaviūnas archive SlSI 16, Kupiškis. Source identifies an actual performance for hikers in Pickering, Ontario. Albertas Martinaitis made the kanklės; that does not establish him as player. Lithuanian repertoire abroad, not general Canadian audience adoption. Source: Honeypaw. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained. Video publication: 2020-10-26; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	live	unknown	country:Lithuania	supported	Recording/context source	Untinas Untalį Vadinojo, tree-harp and kanklės arrangement of Slaviūnas archive SlSI 16, Kupiškis. Source identifies an actual performance for hikers in Pickering, Ontario. Albertas Martinaitis made the kanklės; that does not establish him as player. Lithuanian repertoire abroad, not general Canadian audience adoption. Source: Honeypaw. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained.	false	false	false
Vilnius University folklore ensemble Ratilio	Ratilio, ratilėl | Ratilio – ratui ratujo	https://www.youtube.com/embed/VXuXvuSqElM	Ratilio, Ratilėl, an explicitly identified dvejinė with wooden trumpets, panpipes, whistles and voice. Primary source dates the Lithuanian National Culture Centre studio session to 2021, separately from 2022 copyright and 2023 publication. Historical informant Petras Lapienė and collector Jadvyga Čiurlionytė are not current performers. Source: Ratilio VU. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained. Video publication: 2023-03-20; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	2021	music-video	unknown	country:Lithuania	supported	Recording/context source	Ratilio, Ratilėl, an explicitly identified dvejinė with wooden trumpets, panpipes, whistles and voice. Primary source dates the Lithuanian National Culture Centre studio session to 2021, separately from 2022 copyright and 2023 publication. Historical informant Petras Lapienė and collector Jadvyga Čiurlionytė are not current performers. Source: Ratilio VU. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained.	false	false	false
Vilnius University folklore ensemble Ratilio	Ryto, rytelio | Ratilio – ratui ratujo	https://www.youtube.com/embed/P98TB_pjsg8	Ryto, Rytelio, an explicitly identified keturinė with wooden trumpets and voice, recorded at the Lithuanian National Culture Centre in 2021. Historical source Ona Smilgienė/collector Sabaliauskas 1911 are not the present performers. No full RatuiRatujo compilation selected. Source: Ratilio VU. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained. Video publication: 2023-03-20; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	2021	music-video	unknown	country:Lithuania	supported	Recording/context source	Ryto, Rytelio, an explicitly identified keturinė with wooden trumpets and voice, recorded at the Lithuanian National Culture Centre in 2021. Historical source Ona Smilgienė/collector Sabaliauskas 1911 are not the present performers. No full RatuiRatujo compilation selected. Source: Ratilio VU. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained.	false	false	false
Vilnius University folklore ensemble Ratilio	RATILIO Sutartinių festivalyje "Sesė Sodų Sodina" Lioj lylio (trejinė sutartinė)	https://www.youtube.com/embed/V94ar8AkKXE	Lioj Lylio, source explicitly identifies a trejinė at the 2014 Sesė Sodų Sodino festival in Rokai. Distinct ensemble/work from the TrysKeturiose nightingale song at the same festival. Source: Baltic folk. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained. Video publication: 2014-12-14; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	2014	live	unknown	country:Lithuania	supported	Recording/context source	Lioj Lylio, source explicitly identifies a trejinė at the 2014 Sesė Sodų Sodino festival in Rokai. Distinct ensemble/work from the TrysKeturiose nightingale song at the same festival. Source: Baltic folk. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained.	false	false	false
Vilnius University folklore ensemble Ratilio	【4K】 Vilnius University Folklore Ensemble “Ratilio” - Sutartinė dvejinė “Brolis brolį klausė”	https://www.youtube.com/embed/BHvXQa5w8qw	Brolis Brolį Klausė, named dvejinė from the 14 December 2023 Advent concert at Vilnius University’s StJohns Church. Actual named polyphonic work, not every Lithuanian choir piece imported from the evening. Source: Chojus Europe. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained. Video publication: 2023-12-17; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	2023-12-14	live	unknown	country:Lithuania	supported	Recording/context source	Brolis Brolį Klausė, named dvejinė from the 14 December 2023 Advent concert at Vilnius University’s StJohns Church. Actual named polyphonic work, not every Lithuanian choir piece imported from the evening. Source: Chojus Europe. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained.	false	false	false
Vilnius University folklore ensemble Ratilio	【4K】 Vilnius University Folklore Ensemble “Ratilio” - Lumzdelių sutartinė “Našlaitėlė”	https://www.youtube.com/embed/ryP1ustV-d0	Našlaitėlė, explicitly identified instrumental lumzdeliai sutartinė at the 14 December 2023 Advent concert. A complete short multipart instrumental performance is valid alongside vocal pieces; no full same-night show selected. Source: Chojus Europe. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained. Video publication: 2023-12-17; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	2023-12-14	live	unknown	country:Lithuania	supported	Recording/context source	Našlaitėlė, explicitly identified instrumental lumzdeliai sutartinė at the 14 December 2023 Advent concert. A complete short multipart instrumental performance is valid alongside vocal pieces; no full same-night show selected. Source: Chojus Europe. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained.	false	false	false
Vilnius University folklore ensemble Ratilio	【4K】 Vilnius University Folklore Ensemble “Ratilio” - Sutartinė “Išjojo jojo, sodauto”	https://www.youtube.com/embed/abPbzgua-SA	Išjojo Jojo, Sodauto, distinct specifically named sutartinė from the 14 December 2023 Advent concert. Different work from BrolisBrolįKlausė/Našlaitėlė; no full parent concert selected. Source: Chojus Europe. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained. Video publication: 2023-12-17; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	2023-12-14	live	unknown	country:Lithuania	supported	Recording/context source	Išjojo Jojo, Sodauto, distinct specifically named sutartinė from the 14 December 2023 Advent concert. Different work from BrolisBrolįKlausė/Našlaitėlė; no full parent concert selected. Source: Chojus Europe. Video publication is separate from original/session date; unknown dates retained.	false	false	false

Related genres

Sutartinės belong within Lithuania's wider song world but differ from harmonized choir arrangements and other local song styles. Seto leelo offers a neighboring Baltic multipart practice with different vocal organization and social history. Broader comparisons with interlocking music elsewhere can be useful when specific structural questions are asked, but similarity alone does not prove shared origins. For discovery, listen repeatedly to a short performance, tracing one line at a time, and then watch any associated movement. That method makes the coordinated complexity audible without turning the tradition into a technical puzzle stripped of community meaning.

References and further reading

• Lithuanian polyphonic songs sutartinės: musical language — scholarly article

Hotspot mushrooms

A coherent northeastern Aukštaitija landscape links the communities and countryside around several documented towns. Urban research, teaching and revival participation extends beyond that heartland, so a gentler Lithuanian field complements the stronger regional core rather than replacing cultural geography with institutional addresses.

These fields are editorial illustrations of musical affinity and cultural reach, not listener statistics. Radius marks the zero edge of the fade; overlapping fields of this genre combine by maximum.

MuGlobe hotspot mushrooms

ID	Location	Latitude	Longitude	Radius (km)	Strength	Notes
sutartines-aukstaitijan-heartland	Northeastern Aukštaitija sutartinės communities	55.6	25.6	220	1	Broad strong coverage joins documented towns and intervening communities.
sutartines-lithuanian-revival-networks	Lithuanian sutartinės teaching and ensemble networks	54.9	24.8	350	0.58	Lighter contemporary revival and institutional participation beyond the rooted core.