Music, Language and Identity in Greece: Defining a National Art Music in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Contents

• Editors' preface
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• Roderick Beaton
• Part I Contested histories: Greek art music in retrospect
• 1. Karl Otfried Muller and Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos: Dorism, music and Greek identity
• Christophe Corbier
• 2. Canonising Byzantine chant as Greek art music
• Alexander Lingas
• 3. National music history on the eve of 'the end of music history': Greek music historiography and its Western models
• Katy Romanou
• 4. Odes, anthems and battle songs: creating citizens through music in Greece during the long nineteenth century
• Kostas Kardamis
• 5. Delving into the Athens Conservatoire Archive: musical education as a national need
• Stella Kourmpana
• Part II 'National music': Kalomiris, Skalkottas and beyond
• 6. The harmonisation of Greek folk songs and Greek 'national music'
• Panos Vlagopoulos
• 7. Alternative Greek national music: the case of Petros Petridis
• Nikos Maliaras
• 8. The last defender: Kalomiris's Constantine Palaiologos and the 'Idea of Greek Music'
• Ioannis Tsagkarakis
• 9. A Greek icon: heteroglossia, ambiguity and identity in the music of Nikos Skalkottas
• Eva Mantzourani
• 10. A museum of Greekness: Skalkottas' 36 Greek dances as a record of his homeland and his time
• Katerina Levidou
• 11. Traversing melancholy: Skalkottas reads Esperas
• Petros Vouvaris
• Part III Music and language: modern poetry, ancient drama
• 12. 'You used to sing all my songs': poetry, language and song from Solomos to Seferis
• Peter Mackridge
• 13. Reading Polylas's 'Prolegomena' (1859): poetry and music, history and cultural politics
• Polina Tambakaki
• 14. Can surrealism sing? Nikos Gatsos and song-writing
• Effie Rentzou
• 15. Greek productions of ancient Greek drama in the first half of the twentieth century: music and words
• Anastasia Siopsi
• 16. Performing (ancient) Greek modernism: modernist music and the staging of ancient drama
• Kostas Chardas
• Afterword
• Jim Samson
• Appendix: Greek composers setting poetry to music: a personal perspective
• George Couroupos
• Index