This issue of `Mūzikas akadēmijas raksti` is published in cooperation with the `Project Letonika`.

Preface

1. Composer in his Thoughts and Creating

Mikus Čeže The Law of Jāzeps Vītols

Mikus Čeže Latvian Opera (`Latvju opera`)and Jāzeps Vītols

Anita Miķelsone Emerging of Modernism in Latvian Music and Jāzeps Vītols

Līga Jakovicka The Vocal Lyricism of Jānis Ivanovs

2. Ways of Development of Latvian Symphony Music

Terēze Zīberte-Ijāba The Childhood of Latvian Symphony Music. The Historical Context

Jānis Kudiņš The Factor of the 19th Century Romanticism in the Genesis of Latvian Symphony Music and in the First Period of its Stylistic Development

3. Musical Criticism and the Epoch

Baiba Jaunslaviete Latvian Music in the Mirror of German and Russian Press 1926 - 1944

4. The Traditional Music

On the Issue of Polymodality in the Vocal Sutartinės Played on the Psaltery Kanklės

The same (full text) in English

(5.) The Chronicles of the Musicology in Latvian Academy of Music (JVLMA) 2006 - 2007