THE NATIONAL ELEMENT IN MUSIC
International Musicological Conference
Athens (Megaron
–
The Athens Concert Hall), 18-20 January 2013
Organized
by
Faculty
of Music Studies of the University of Athens
Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri”
Supported by
Athens
Concert Hall Organization
PROGRAMME
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Friday, 18 January 2013
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CONFERENCE
ROOM 1* |
CONFERENCE
ROOM 2** |
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10:00-12:00 |
National Music School in Greece (I) chair:
Giorgos
Sakallieros Athanasios
Trikoupis George
Lambelet (1875-1945): Aspects on the national and European element in
Greek music Emmanuel Seiragakis Constantinos
Chrestomanos, a pioneer overlooked Xenia
Theodoridou Emilios
Riadis’ Macedonian Shadows for two pianos: One of the first works in
national style of the Greek National School, as a reflection of Greek
liberatory claims Ioannis Fulias The composer Dimitri Mitropoulos and his relation to the Greek National
School of Music |
Lied and opera in 19th-century Europe chair:
Beat Föllmi Anja
Bunzel Johanna
Kinkel’s “Thurm und Fluth” (Opus 19, No. 6) – Revolutionary ideas and political optimism in a
19th-century art song Riccardo
La Spina Foreign Concepts: Mercadante’s Experimentation
with Spanishness in his Operas for Spain (1826-1831) Cristina
Alvarez Losada Towards the creation of the Spanish national lyric
drama: the proposal of Felipe Pedrell (1841-1922) Minas
I. Alexiadis Medea in opera: ethnic
identity and operatic adaptations |
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12:00-12:30 |
COFFEE
BREAK |
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12:30-14:30 |
National Music School in Greece (II) and Cyprus chair:
Stephanie Merakos Giorgos
Sakallieros The
Greek symphony (1900-1950): oscillating between Greek nationalism and
Western art-music tradition Stamatia
Gerothanasi Compositional
techniques and the folk element in the musical drama The
Afternoon of Love of Marios Varvoglis Spyridoula
Katsarou The Greek Element in the work of the composer Georgios Kazassoglou
(1908-1984) Georgia
Petroudi The
formation of the Cypriot musical scene during the first half of the
twentieth century: Yiagkos Michailidis, the unacknowledged music figure |
Aspects of music nationalism in North Europe chair:
Jim Samson Carola
Finkel The birth
of Finnish music – Sibelius’ Kullervo
op.
7 Johannes
Brusila In
search of “true” Finnish music: The different shapes of musical
nationalism, canon formation and cultural politics Georgia
Volioti Between Discourse and Performance Practice in Expressions of Norwegian National-Cultural Identity Stefan
Schmidl National branding. Musical allegories and their
ingredients |
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14:30-19:00 |
LUNCH
BREAK |
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19:00-20:00 |
Keynote lecture (University of Athens, Central Building***) Jim Samson Hearing the Nations in Chopin |
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20:00-21:00 |
CONCERT
(University of Athens, Central Building) |
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Saturday, 19 January 2013
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CONFERENCE
ROOM 1 |
CONFERENCE
ROOM 2 |
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10:00-12:00 |
Music nationalism in Portugal (I) chair:
Helena Marinho Francesco
Esposito Between the passion for
everything foreign and protectionism: the defence of the ‘national’
musician in 19th-century Lisbon Rosa Paula Rocha Pinto Portuguese
Ballet Company “Verde Gaio” (1940-1950): “national identity” and
“modernism” in the ballets of Frederico de Freitas Francisco
Monteiro Lopes-Graça:
a national composer against nationalism Paula Gomes Ribeiro Rebuilding
a national identity through the cultural practices associated with the
Teatro de Săo Carlos, in the first years of democracy in Portugal |
Aspects of music nationalism in 19th and early 20th-century Greece chair:
Katy Romanou Maria Barbaki The
contribution of the music associations to the dissemination of art music
to the people in nineteenth-century Greece Kostas
Kardamis “Aria
in idioma Greco” or Pending the Greek-speaking singers Panos
Vlagopoulos Samara’s
Way: Un Greco Vero Angeliki Skandali Deriving from Eptanesos – National
forms of Hellenic music theatre (1900-1912) |
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12:00-12:30 |
COFFEE
BREAK |
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12:30-14:00 |
Music nationalism in Portugal (II) chair:
Minas I. Alexiadis Themed
session: Frederico de Freitas and musical nationalism in Portugal in the
1930 and 1940 decades Helena Marinho Art
music and popular music – Aesthetics and interaction in Frederico de
Freitas’ orchestral production André Vaz Pereira Tradition
and modernism – The works for piano solo and piano with string instruments
of Frederico de Freitas Maria do Rosário Pereira
Pestana ‘Portuguese
songs’:
Representing Portugal through song |
National elements in contemporary Greek music chair:
Panos
Vlagopoulos Andriana
Soulele Greek
identity and incidental music for the Ancient Greek tragedy: the folk
element in Dimitris Dragatakis’s Antigone
(1968) and Heracleidae (1970) Valia
Christopoulou Between
musical cosmopolitanism and modernized nationism: the national element in
the music of Yorgos Sicilianos Nicos Diminakis Formation and Evolution of the National Element in
Dimitri Nicolau’s Bis For Two for saxophone and piano |
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14:00-16:00 |
LUNCH
BREAK |
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16:00-17:30 |
National Opera and the heroic element chair:
Tatjana
Markovic Struggle
for liberation: Discourse of heroism in the opera Knez
Ivo od Semberije (Prince Ivo of
Semberia, 1910) by Isidor Bajić Beat
Föllmi Identity under construction: the heroic opera Petru Rareş
(1900) by the Romanian Eduard Caudella Alexandros
Charkiolakis Bravery and destiny: the heroic element in
Manolis Kalomiris’ Konstantinos Palaiologos |
National aspects of music genres and instruments chair:
George Zervos Wojciech
M. Marchwica Folk
Clichés in Central-European Pastorellas in 17th-18th centuries Karl
Traugott Goldbach German
and French Violin School in early 19th Century Germany Zoltan Paulinyi Advances
on Brazilian music for violin and viola pomposa |
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17:30-18:00 |
COFFEE
BREAK |
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18:00-19:30 |
The national element in Nikos Skalkottas’ music chair:
George Fitsioris Katerina Levidou A
Dubious Mission: Skalkottas’s Vision of Truly Greek Music and his 36
Greek Dances Costas
Tsougras Nikos
Skalkottas’ “Theme & Variations” piano works based on
Greek folk melodies – An analytical and compositional approach George Zervos Aspects
of hellenicity in Nikos Skalkottas’ music |
Poland and the idea of national music chair:
Tatjana
Markovic Ryszard Daniel Golianek Imaginary
Poland. Musical depiction of the non-existing country in the instrumental
music of the 19th century foreign composers Katarzyna
Bartos The
national element in Grażyna Bacewicz’s music Bogumila
Mika Beauty and
singularity or
national message? Elements of Podhale and Kurpie folk music in 20th
century Polish compositions |
Sunday, 20 January 2013
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CONFERENCE
ROOM 1 |
CONFERENCE
ROOM 2 |
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10:00-12:00 |
Folk elements in Greek art and popular music chair:
Markos
Tsetsos Paris
Konstantinidis When
Progress fails, try Greekness Nikos
Maliaras Theories
establishing the Greek National Music, the use of traditional element and
the ‘rembetiko’ in Greek popular music in the 1950s and 60s. Some
remarks on a special kind of political-artistic populism Angelina
Sotiriou Laiko
Oratorio:
Defining the term within the area of Greek and Cypriot Music Maria
Hnaraki Resistance
through Dancing: The
National Poetics of Cretan Performance |
Aspects of music nationalism in Russia (I) and Armenia chair:
Alexander
Ivashkin Liudmila
P. Kazantseva Russian
in music as an other-national Olena (Yelena) Dyachkova “Russian
scherzo”: from
M. Glinka to
A. Glazunov Tamsin
Alexander The
Early Reception of Russian Opera in Britain: Russomania and the Problems
of Putting Onegin on Again (1892-1906) Brigitta Davidjants Self-colonization
in music: different approaches to transcription of Armenian folk tunes |
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12:00-12:30 |
COFFEE
BREAK |
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12:30-14:00 |
Aesthetic aspects on Greek music nationalism chair:
Nikos
Maliaras Anastasia
Siopsi Music
in the imaginary worlds of Greek nation: Greek art music during the
nineteenth-century’s fin de siécle (1880s-1910s) Markos
Tsetsos Greek
Music: From Cosmopolitism through Nationalism to Populism Kostas Chardas International
vs. national? Issues
of (Hellenic/Greek) identity within Greek musical modernism (1950s-1970s) |
Aspects of music nationalism in Serbia and Russia (II) chair:
Liudmila
P. Kazantseva Nataša
Tasić Patriotic
and folklore discourse as communication tool in Serbian choral music
before the Second World War Alexander
Ivashkin Shostakovich
and Russian Orthodoxy Galina
Ovsyankina The
national element in the works of composers from the school of Shostakovich |
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14:00-16:00 |
LUNCH
BREAK |
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16:00-17:30 |
Music nationalism and historiography chair: Anastasia Siopsi Esperanza Rodríguez-García Sebastián
Raval and the ‘Spanish Arrogance’: How the Reputation of a Sixteenth-Century
Composer was Destroyed Naussică
Tsima Hellenic
nationalism: a three-part drama and its musical accompaniment Katy Romanou A Paper investigating the Causes that produce Papers, Articles,
Chapters and Books on the Subjects of Deconstructing, Reconstructing,
Redefining, Re-Inventing, Reconsidering, Redrawing or Reshaping the
Imaginary Worlds, or Myths of National Music Histories |
Aspects of nationalism in contemporary art chair:
Kostas Chardas Zachary
Bernstein The
Implications of Resonance: Spectralism and the French Music-Theoretical
Tradition David
J. Code Mozart
Films the Vietnam War: Music, Nation, and Gender in Kubrick’s Full
Metal Jacket (1987) Merav
Meron-Dvoyris Mediterranean folklore in the work of Israeli prog composers |
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17:30-18:00 |
COFFEE
BREAK |
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18:00-19:30 |
Aspects of music nationalism in Hungary and Latvia chair:
Costas Tsougras Joseph
Pfender “Feeling”
vs. Appropriation: the Limits of Musical Signification in Bartók’s Mikrokosmos Jānis
Kudiņš Folk-music
allusion as Pēteris Vasks symphonic works style mark. Some issues
about the national element in the music of contemporary composer Ieva
Rozenbaha Elements of Folklore in the Requiems of Latvian Composers |
Aspects of music nationalism in America and Asia chair:
Stelios Psaroudakes Robert
Waters Searching
for American Identity: Nationalism and Anti-Semitism in American Music
Societies, 1918-1939 Arman
Goharinasab &
Azadeh Latifkar Portraying Persian patriotism in
Aref Qazvini’s Compositions during
the early years of 20th century Meebae
Lee Koreanized Lied or Korean Art
Song? Searching for National Elements in Korean Art Songs |
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Conference Room 1: Megaron – The
Athens Concert Hall (Vassilissis Sofias & Kokkali, Athens), MC 2
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Conference Room 2: Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri” (Vassilissis
Sofias & Kokkali, Athens), Lecture Room
*** University of Athens, Central Building (Panepistimiou / Venizelou 30, Athens)