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

Editors’ prefaceList of ContributorsIntroductionRoderick BeatonPart I Contested histories: Greek art music in retrospect1. Karl Otfried Muller and Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos: Dorism, music and Greek identityChristophe Corbier2. Canonising Byzantine chant as Greek art musicAlexander Lingas3. National music history on the eve of ‘the end of music history’: Greek music historiography and its Western modelsKaty Romanou4. Odes, anthems and battle songs: creating citizens through music in Greece during the long nineteenth centuryKostas Kardamis5. Delving into the Athens Conservatoire Archive: musical education as a national needStella KourmpanaPart II ‘National music’: Kalomiris, Skalkottas and beyond6. The harmonisation of Greek folk songs and Greek ‘national music’Panos Vlagopoulos7. Alternative Greek national music: the case of Petros PetridisNikos Maliaras8. The last defender: Kalomiris’s Constantine Palaiologos and the ‘Idea of Greek Music’Ioannis Tsagkarakis9. A Greek icon: heteroglossia, ambiguity and identity in the music of Nikos SkalkottasEva Mantzourani10. A museum of Greekness: Skalkottas’ 36 Greek dances as a record of his homeland and his timeKaterina Levidou11. Traversing melancholy: Skalkottas reads EsperasPetros VouvarisPart III Music and language: modern poetry, ancient drama12. ‘You used to sing all my songs’: poetry, language and song from Solomos to SeferisPeter Mackridge13. Reading Polylas’s ‘Prolegomena’ (1859): poetry and music, history and cultural politicsPolina Tambakaki14. Can surrealism sing? Nikos Gatsos and song-writingEffie Rentzou15. Greek productions of ancient Greek drama in the first half of the twentieth century: music and wordsAnastasia Siopsi16. Performing (ancient) Greek modernism: modernist music and the staging of ancient dramaKostas ChardasAfterwordJim SamsonAppendix: Greek composers setting poetry to music: a personal perspectiveGeorge CourouposIndex