Music, Language and Identity in Greece

Editors' preface

List of Contributors

Introduction

Roderick Beaton

Part I Contested histories: Greek art music in retrospect

1. Karl Otfried Mueller 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