This is the first book to investigate systematically the diverse aspects and compositional approaches of Greek musical modernism.
The volume contributes to ongoing discussions about aesthetic modernism in general and the epistemological issues that pertain to its historiography, especially with respect to challenging the centre-periphery dichotomy that has previously informed its conceptual framework. The book strikes a balance between offering thematically focused contributions and serving as a reference source for scholars interested in looking more thoroughly into unexamined or overlooked aspects of musical modernism. To do so, it encompasses a variety of case studies, presented in a series of 13 chapters that cover a wide array of methodological approaches, from historical and critical to analytical and philosophical. These chapters are organised along the lines of a historical narrative that traces the reception of musical modernism in Greece, ranging from downright rejection during the mid-war period to affirmative institutionalisation in the post-war years.
In this context, the book will interest not only musicians, musicologists, and music theorists but also cultural historians and other scholars involved in studying the emergence, development, and dissemination of modernism worldwide.
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.
