Learning Outcomes
By attending succesfully this course, the student will be able
1. to conduct field work in order to find, record and film authentic music renditions, in different regions of Greece,
2. to structure and to prepare a paradigmatic lesson concerning Greek folk music in school,
3. to create and conduct an ensemble of traditional music,
4. to produce a CD or DVD with recordings-film with authentic older and newer performers,together with the relevant musicological commentary,
5. to produce a musical-educational program for broadcasting, television or other cultural events.
Course Content (Syllabus)
This course covers the following themes:
Nomenclature of the musical instruments in the Greek cultural space, geographical zones of dissemination, description and manufacture, tuning and ambitus, playing techniques, traditional ensembles, traditional methods of teaching, practical ways of musical notation, musical examples, bibliography.
Educational actions: visit to laboratories of manufacturing traditional musical instruments (ud, lute, santuri, bag-pipe a.o.).
Student assessment: Based on the study of the themes mentioned above, students can chose for their written work a traditional instrument, they can manufacture or assist the manufacturing of the chosen instrument, learn to play it and present their progress during the term.
Keywords
Traditional Greek music instruments, instrument manufacturing, field work, performance practice, ensembles of Greek folk music
Additional bibliography for study
Σημειώσεις του διδάσκοντος.
I. Καϊμάκης, Στ. Κοκκάλας, Σ. Τσιάνης, Αι. Πολυμέρου-Καμηλάκη, Δημοτικά τραγούδια από το Βαλτέτσι της Αρκαδίας, Κέντρον Ερεύνης της Ελληνικής Λαογραφίας της Ακαδημίας Αθηνών, 2 vols., and set with 12 CDs and 1 DVD (Αthens, 2010).
Samuel Baud-Bovy, Δοκίμιο για το ελληνικό δημοτικό τραγούδι, Πελοποννησιακό Λαογραφικό Ίδρυμα, Ναύπλιο 1984.
Φοίβος Ανωγειανάκης, Ἑλληνικὰ λαϊκὰ μουσικὰ ὄργανα, β΄ έκδ., Αθήνα: Μέλισσα, 1991.
Γιάννης Πραντσίδης, Ο χορός στην ελληνική παράδοση και η διδασκαλία του, Εκδοτική Αιγινίου 2004.
Μέλπω Μερλιέ, Τραγούδια της Ρούμελης, 1931.
Μέλπω Μερλιέ, Μουσική παράδοση στην Ελλάδα, δοκίμιο, 1935 (επίσης Μουσική Λαογραφία).