Perspectives on Greek Musical Modernism (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Mantzourani, Eva; Vouvaris, Petros; Tsougras, Costas

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book to investigate systematically the diverse aspects and compositional approaches of Greek musical modernism. It will interest not only musicians, musicologists, and music theorists, but also cultural historians and other scholars involved in studying the emergence and dissemination of modernism worldwide.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351657075
• Artikelnr.: 73418125

Autorenporträt

Eva Mantzourani is a musicologist and music analyst. Her academic qualifications include a PhD from King's College, London, UK; an MMus in Music Theory and Analysis and an MMus in Historical Musicology from Goldsmiths, University of London, UK; and a BMus from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Her teaching includes lecturing positions at Kingston University-Hong Kong University (Space), City University London, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Canterbury Christ Church University, and The Open University. She has published work on musicological topics and the music of Nikos Skalkottas. She has authored The Life and Twelve-Note Music of Nikos Skalkottas (Ashgate, 2011/Routledge, 2016) and edited Polish Music since 1945 (2013). She is the editor of the critical edition of Nikos Skalkottas's Violin Concerto, published by Universal Edition (Vienna). Costas Tsougras (musicologist and composer) is Professor of Systematic Musicology and Music Analysis in the School of Music Studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. His academic qualifications include a PhD and an MMus from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His PhD research involves the adaptation of the Generative Theory of Tonal Music (GTTM) for the analysis of Y. Constantinidis' '44 Greek Miniatures'. He has published theoretical and analytical work in international and Greek journals and collective volumes on GTTM, cognitive and computational analytical models, analysis of classical and 20th-century music, and Greek contemporary music. His compositions have been performed and recorded by acclaimed musicians and ensembles. In 2012 and 2019 his music represented the Greek Composers' Union at the ISCM World Music Days in Belgium (2012) and Estonia (2019). Petros Vouvaris is Associate Professor in Music Form and Analysis in the Department of Music Science and Art at the University of Macedonia, Greece. He holds a doctoral degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, a master's degree from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, USA, and a bachelor's degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He has presented papers at international conferences and has published articles in both Greek and international journals. His book Introduction to the Formal Analysis of Tonal Music (in Greek) was published in 2015. His research interests primarily focus on analytical and hermeneutical approaches to Greek musical modernism, particularly Nikos Skalkottas. He is a member of the board of directors of the Hellenic Musicological Society and a member of the editorial board of the English-language, peer-reviewed, open-access electronic journal Mousikos Logos.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Greek musical modernism in context
IOANNIS TSAGKARAKIS
2 Musical modernism in Greece: an overview
KOSTAS CHARDAS AND GIORGOS SAKALLIEROS
3 Dimitri Mitropoulos in the 1920s: the pioneering steps of musical
modernism in Greece
GIORGOS SAKALLIEROS
4 Sonata form, sonata cycle, and multi-movement coherence in Nikos
Skalkottas' free dodecaphonic works
EVA MANTZOURANI
5 Nikos Skalkottas' May Day Spell - A Fairy Drama: symbolic fusion of
diatonicism and chromaticism
COSTAS TSOUGRAS
6 Nikos Skalkottas' musical borrowings and the art of collecting ideas
PETROS VOUVARIS
7 Struggling for the 'new' in the 1950s: twelve-note/tonal interactions in
Symphony No. 3 and Concerto for Orchestra by Yannis A. Papaioannou
KOSTAS CHARDAS
8 A selective appropriation: Yorgos Sicilianos between modernism and
postmodernism
VALIA CHRISTOPOULOU
9 Michael Adamis' poly-melodic structures and the creative renegotiation of
Byzantine musical heritage
THEODORE KARATHODOROS
10 On Christou
PANOS VLAGOPOULOS
11Three components of Xenakis' universe
MAKIS SOLOMOS
12 On the evolution of Xenakis' compositional thinking
DIMITRIS EXARCHOS
13 Beyond the stave: performance indeterminacy and the limits of Greek
musical experimentalism
DANAE STEFANOU