A comparative study of early and ethnic music traditions, which examines the relationship between ancient Greek music and the traditional music of the areas that have historically been subject to Greek cultural influence, either through direct contact with the Greeks, or indirectly, by way of diffusion of Greek culture through Hellenistic cultural centers and through the resurgence of Greek civilization that took place at various times in world history.

This study, which relies almost exclusively on the investigation of primary sources, mostly Greek and Latin, by taking into account the historical contexts of musical developments in all three domains, offers a different interpretation of these sources and challenges established notions about the origin of musical concepts, practices and instruments. In the author's view, such established notions have given a fragmentary picture of the world's traditional musical landscape, due to many out of context interpretations of ancient sources in the last two centuries and the tendency by many scholars to ignore the strong cultural connection between the peoples, whose musical cultures are examined in this thesis.

Οι σκέψεις πάνω στο έργο του Ιωάννη Σακελλαρίδη είναι μια επιλογή σχετικών με το έργο αυτό αποσπασμάτων από μια ευρύτερη μελέτη με θέμα την μουσική παράδοση του Λιτοχώρου, η οποία με τη σειρά της εντάσσεται στη γενικότερη έρευνα της σχέσης της αρχαίας ελληνικής μουσικής με την παραδοσιακή μουσική των λαών που ιστορικά υπήρξαν υποκείμενοι στην ελληνο-ρωμαϊκή πολιτιστική ηγεμονία.

 

ANCIENT  GREEK TEXTS

Selected Greek texts from classical poetry, drama and philosophy in the original  Greek language translated into English  by N. Ioannidis. Several of the poetic texts have been  set to music by Ioannidis and are available for downloading at the Downloads  page.   Included in this section are the texts of the musical works:   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.  The complete Greek text of Sophocles' tragedy "Oedipus the king"  is available to read online   Homer-Iliad The complete Greek text of Homer's Iliad  with English translation is available  for downloading at the Downloads  page

Ioannidis N. is a composer, musicologist, multi-instrumentalist performer, media theorist, and digital media creative producer (with formal qualifications in Music, Musicology, Media Studies, and Digital Media Studies)