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    The document discusses the role of folk and traditional music in classical Greek music after 1930, with a focus on regional folk music styles, instruments commonly used, and how composers like Skalkottas, Kalomiris, Theodorakis, and Hatzidakis incorporated elements of Greek folk music into their classical compositions, particularly through the use of the violin. It also explores how understanding the characteristics of Greek folk dances can help in playing Skalkottas' Greek dances.

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    TO WHICH EXTEND THE FOLK/TRADITIONAL MUSIC OF


    GREECE PLAYS A ROLE IN THE CLASSICAL GREEK
    MUSIC AFTER 1930?

    By Maria Dorri
    main teacher: Natasja
    Morozova
    Thesis supervisor: Desiree
    Introduction

    1st subquestion: How can the folk/traditional Greek


    music be defined

    2nd subquestion: What is the role of the violin within


    Greek folk/traditional & classical music of
    Theodorakis, Skalkottas, Kalomiris & Hatzidakis

    3rd subquestion: How can this background


    informations help me to understand and play the
    Skalkottas Greek dances
    introduction

    • Greece (Hellas & Ellada)

    - southern Europe

    - Balkan country

    - largest coast line in Europe

    - highest mountain: Olympus

    - shares borders with


    Albania, FYROM, Bulgaria &
    Turkey
    introduction

    - Greece: birthplace of philosophy, democracy, literature,


    drama, historiography, political sciences, Olympic games

    - three empires that influenced Greek music: Ottoman,


    Roman, Byzantine

    - kantadhes ~ Italy (Roman)


    Oriental sounds (Ottoman)
    church music ( Byzantine)

    - important musicians of classical Greek music:


    M.Callas, D.Mitropoulos, Y,Xenakis, M.Theodorakis,
    M.Kalomiris, M.Hatzidakis & N.Skalkottas
    1st sub: How can
    the Greek
    folk/traditional
    music be defined?

    - Roots of Greek folk music in


    Ancient Greece

    - Two main musical


    movements: akritic & klephtic

    - Greek folk/traditional music


    has important role
    performed in special occasions
    as weddings, baptisms,
    carnival, Christmas & Easter,
    festivals

    - The folk/traditional music is


    Regions of
    Greece
    Thrace: Zonaradikos
    - Thrace: Northern part
    of Greece
    Close to Balkan music
    Instruments: mostly
    use of Brass and Gaida
    famous dance:
    ‘zonaradikos’ dance
    (belt dance) in 6/8

    - Macedonia: Macedonia: Syrtos of


    Minorities moved in Macedonia
    Macedonia: Vlahs,
    Greeks from Asia,
    Turks, Gypsies, Jews
    Instruments: Brass &
    Gaida
    famous band: Halkina
    Goumenissas
    - Epirus: Prominent
    instrument; clarinet Polyphonic music of
    Other instruments: Violin, Epirus
    defi & laouto 4 vocal parts: patri,
    Clarinet: descending giristi, isokrati, klosti
    glissandi,
    chromatisism,ascending
    leaps of a seventh
    categorized in monophonic &
    polyphonic music Monophonic
    monophonic: lament, table music of epirus
    songs or rhythmic dance
    songs
    polyphonic: vocal singing
    unaccompanied & it has a
    pentatonic structure

    -Thessaly: similarities with Thessaly


    Epirus
    - Central Greece
    instruments: violin,
    klarino, laouto Tsamikos dance
    main dances: tsamikos &
    kleftikos

    - Peloponnese: heroic
    songs
    lament
    Main dances: Kalamatianos of
    kalamatianos Peloponnese
    differents from north
    Greece: tritonic,
    tetratonic, chtomatic
    modes

    -Aegean & ionian


    Ionian kandadhes
    islands: nisiotika songs
    more light character
    Ionian islands: western
    harmony, influenced by
    Italy
    Aegean islands: most
    important instrument is
    violin Ballos dance from
    cyclades
    other instruments:
    klarino,sandouri &
    tsabouna
    dances: sousta & ballos (in
    2/4 meter), ikariotikos

    -Creta island: south,


    ikariotikos
    biggest island
    instruments: most
    important~Cretan lyra
    characteristics songs: Cretan dances
    mantinades
    dances: sousta & pentozali
    - Pontus & Cyprus:
    instruments: Pontian Pontus dance
    lyra in Pontus &
    bouzouki in Cyprus

    - rebetiko: urban
    dance songs come
    from Asian minor

    Cyprus

    Rebetiko
    of the violin within Greek
    folk/traditional &
    classical music of
    Theodorakis, Skalkottas,
    Kalomiris & Hatzidakis?

    - In 1900’s Greece got influenced by Russian


    school and other schools in Europe
    - Creation of National school

    - Manolis Kalomiris: the founder of National


    school
    - Mikis Theodorakis: student of Messien, famous
    composer all over Europe & important for Greece
    - Manos Hatzidakis: academy award winner,
    famous for his music for movies
    - Skalkottas: favorite student of Schonberg,
    twelve tone system in Greece for the first time
    Kalomiris:
    Concertino for
    Skalkottas: The sea Hatzidakis:
    solo violin &
    -folk ballet Gioconda’s
    orchestra
    -11 parts smile
    -first movement
    -the violin is not always -10
    virtuoso
    present having the major instrumentals
    5/8 folk meter
    role songs
    -second movement
    -a monologue
    imitating of floyera
    of a lonely
    chromatic scales
    woman
    -third movement
    the violin has
    festive character
    an important
    role in the
    Theodorakis:
    Aksion esti
    -based on a poet
    -the violin has a
    secondary role
    generally in the
    piece
    help me to understand &
    play the Skalkottas
    dances?

    - Skalkottas brings new idea in Greece

    -5 Dances ~Epirotikos, Kretikos, Tsamikos,


    Arkadikos, Kleftikos

    - Dahlhaus ~ modes, style, melodic & rythmic


    patterns the color of ethnic music

    - Papaioanou brings the 13 criteria of Greek


    characteristics-here characteristics of 5
    dances
    . Sounds from the Greek environment, use of
    small intervals, use of tropical scales,
    traditional melodic & rhythmical patterns,

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