Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
About the contributors
Editors’ preface
Introduction
References
PART I: Contested histories: Greek art music in retrospect
1. Karl Otfried Müller and Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos: Dorism, music and Greek identity
Müller’s chapter on music in The Dorians
Dorism and music in Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos’s History of Hellenic Civilisation
References
2. Canonising Byzantine chant as Greek art music
Historical continuity in Greek ecclesiastical music according to Chrysanthos
Projecting historical depth in early Chrysanthine chantbooks
Early traditionalist responses to the ‘musical question’
Conclusion
References
3. National music history on the eve of ‘the end of music history’: Greek music historiography and its Western models
Whose end?
Greek music in Western historiography
The influence of Western music historiography on Greek music historians
New forms of globalism and nationalism
References
4. Odes, anthems and battle songs: creating citizens through music in Greece during the long nineteenth century
References
5. Delving into the Athens Conservatoire Archive: musical education as a national need
Five snapshots from the Athens Conservatoire Archive
Appendix: overview of the Athens Conservatoire Archive
References
PART II: ‘National music’: Kalomiris, Skalkottas and beyond
6. The harmonisation of Greek folk songs and Greek ‘national music’
Snapshots from London and Paris: on literary salons, Aryanism and the occult
Two opposite poles: the mutual benefits argument versus the continuity project
Some further snapshots: on the life of the word ‘harmonisation’ in the Greek context and beyond
Conclusions
References
Appendix
7. Alternative Greek national music: the case of Petros Petridis
References
8. The last defender: Kalomiris’s Constantine Palaiologos and the ‘Idea of Greek Music’
‘To fight bravely, devoid of hope’
To endure and to resist
To die and to rise
References
9. A Greek icon: heteroglossia, ambiguity and identity in the music of Nikos Skalkottas
Skalkottas and Bartók
Rural miniatures, heteroglossia and the distance between Skalkottas and Greek culture
References
10. A museum of ‘Greekness’: Skalkottas’s 36 Greek Dances as a record of his homeland and his time
References
Appendix
11. Traversing melancholy: Skalkottas reads Esperas
Music qua subject
Renouncing desire: ‘Loneliness’
Painful pleasures: ‘Spring’
The living corpse: ‘Ideal’
Subject qua music
References
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
References
13. Reading Polylas’s ‘Prolegomena’ (1859): poetry and music, history and cultural politics
Setting the scene
The Solomos–Mantzaros ‘diptych’, the Eastern question and orientalism
The Polylas–Zambelios debate
The view from Athens in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century
Polylas and Mantzaros on the ‘music’ of Solomos’s poetry
Zambelios’s ‘folk songs’, Polylas’s ‘folk music’ and the East/Orient
The question of the ‘standard’ national language and Solomos’s voice: satisfying, astonishing or shocking?
Conclusion
References
14. Can surrealism sing? Nikos Gatsos and song- writing
Breton, music and song
Nikos Gatsos and song
Gatsos’s ‘The Drunken Boat’
References
15. Greek productions of ancient Greek drama in the
first half of the twentieth century: music and words
The hierarchy between music and words
The imported art of opera versus a
Greek total work of art
Epilogue
References
16. Performing (ancient) Greek modernism: modernist music and the staging of ancient drama
Context, people, places
Myths, metonymies, conceptual blending: some methodological underpinnings
Shared elements in performances of modernist music and ancient drama
Legacy
Conclusions
References
Afterword
References
Appendix: Greek composers setting poetry to music: a personal perspective
A short historical overview
The composer and the poem
Ionian composers and Manolis Kalomiris
Dimitri Mitropoulos
Nikos Skalkottas
Art music and the rebetiko 1: Manos Hadjidakis and Argyris Kounadis
Art music and the rebetiko 2: Mikis Theodorakis, The Axion Esti
‘Art music’ and ‘popular music’
Some further examples of poetry set to music
Jani Christou
Index