The course provides an introduction to traditional music and examines the following specific topics:

  1. The language of music and the music of language
  2. Musical maps of Hellenism (dialects – idioms – idilekta)
  3. Theory of “musical networks”
  4. Musical affinities in the Balkans and the Mediterranean
  5. Relationships between traditional and urban folk music
  6. The concept of improvisation in traditional music
  7. Introduction to Greek folk musical instruments
  8. Introduction to Greek Choreology
  9. Relationship between the musician and the dancer
  10. Speech, music and movement in Greek folk shadow theatre

 

Recommended Bibliography

Anogeianakis Phoebus, Greek folk instruments. Melissa, Athens 1991.

Attali Jacques, Noises. Ed. Rappa, Athens 1991.

Baud-Bovy Samuel, Essay on the Greek folk song. Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation, Nafplio 1984.

Georgiades Thrasybulos, The Greek rhythm. Music – dance – lyrics – language. Armos, Athens 2001.

Demertzis Kostis, Musicology as linguistics. Papazisis, Athens 1998.

Drulia Lucia and Liavas Lambros (eds.) Music of Thrace. A multidisciplinary approach: Evros. Association “The Friends of Music”, Athens 1999.

Kavouras Pavlos (ed.), Folklore and tradition. Issues of representation and performance of music and dance. Nisos, Athens 2010.

Karas Simon, To love Greek music. Astir, Athens 1973.

Kiourtsakis Yannis, The problem of tradition. Stigmi, Athens 1989.

Kyriakides Stilpon, The folk song. Conducting studies. (ed. Alki Kyriakidou-Nestoros). Athens 1978.

Liavas Lambros, Music from the Dodecanese. Foundation of the Hellenic Parliament, Athens 2007.

Despina Mazaraki, The folk clarinet in Greece. French Institute, Athens 1959.

Blacking John, The expression of human musicality. Nefeli, Athens 1981.

Nettle Bruno, Music in primitive cultures. Kalvos, Athens 1979.

Nitsiakos Vassilis (ed.), Dance and society . Cultural Centre of the Municipality of Konitsa, Konitsa 1994.

Panopoulos Panagiotis (ed.), From music to sound – Ethnographic studies by S. Feld, M. Roseman, A. Seeger. Alexandria, Athens 2005.

Stravinsky Igor, Music Poetics, (translation by Michalis Grigoriou), Nefeli, Athens 1982.

Terzakis Fotis, Notes for an anthropology of music. Athens 1986.

Tsitsipis Loukas, Introduction to the anthropology of language. Gutenberg, Athens 1995.

Hapsoulas Anastasios, Ethnomusicology. Historiographical and ethnographic dimensions. Nisos, Athens 2010.

Hobsbawm Eric, The Invention of Surrender. Themelio, Athens 2004