Essay on the role of classical music

Notice:

Due to a general restructuring of the Homo Ecumenicus website, the essay on the role of modern classical music (Is there -should there be, a mainstream audience for modern classical music? Has modernism lost it?) by IOANNIDIS Nikolaos will be temporarily unavailable.

For a list of other online essays on Music and Media by IOANNIDIS you can visit his ESSAYS page.

A list of all IOANNIDIS' works (musical works, lyrics, essays, translations of classical texts) is available at his WORKS page.

MP3 files of his musical works (samples and some full songs) are available for downloading at the Ioannidis Mp3 page

Works of interest to classicists and composers

The Music of Ancient Greeks an approach to the original singing of the Homeric epics and the lyrical poetry of the 8th-5th century B.C.

MUSIC and RELIGION (extant ancient Greek religious songs, Byzantine chant, Gregorian chant, Quranic chant)

Oedipus Rex English opera. Audio excerpt of this work is available online in mp3 format. Also available is the complete Greek text of Sophocles' tragedy "Oedipus the king".

Also, a new page presenting IOANNIDIS' research project at the University of Sussex will be available here soon. The subject of this research project is the relationship between the ancient Greek musical theory -and practice- and contemporary Western and Near Eastern traditional music.

Works of interest to poets and lyricists

Ancient Greek epic and lyrical poems translated into English by Ioannidis (The original Greek texts are also available on the same page)

LYRICS 1 and LYRICS 2 (to songs from the albums Mass insanity , BE A MASTER OF YOUR FATE! , AREN'T YOU FED UP? ) dealing with the dominant political, social, and ethical issues of our time: the erosion of the nation state, globalization, terrorism, the moral and cultural decadence of modern society.

Works of interest to music performers

Instrumental performance: 12-string Guitar Works (12 string classical guitar) Mass insanity (electric guitar, fretless guitar) The Music of Ancient Greeks (ancient Greek instruments -ancient kithara, aulos, ethnic percussion).

Vocal performance: MUSIC and RELIGION (including some tracks with performance of ancient Greek instruments)

Finally, to purchase online any of IOANNIDIS' CDs visit the Secure Online Shopping page

The background music of this page is a midi version of the song "A fading world" from IOANNIDIS' album " Be a master of your fate!"

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