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

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