Ioannidis Nikolaos

N. Ioannidis 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)

The Music of Ancient Greeks - Early Epic and Lyrical Poetry An approach to the original singing of ancient Greek epic and lyrical poetry of the 8th-5th century B.C. with the use of ancient Greek and contemporary folk instruments (ancient kithara, folk woodwinds- zournas, ney, flogera- classical guitar, ethnic percussion).

12-string Guitar Works

Instrumentals of the 12-string classical guitar featuring various performance techniques (Western and Near Eastern,)

Oedipus Rex

Audio excerpt of the English opera by Ioannidis, and the complete Greek text of Sophocles' tragedy "Oedipus the king" edited by Ioannidis

Music and Religion

Ancient and Medieval religious music from different cultures (extant ancient Greek religious songs, Byzantine chant, Gregorian chant, Quranic chant)

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: Audio

An approach to the original singing of Homeric epics

Early works by Ioannidis inspired by classical, rock, jazz and ethnic music.

Be a Master of your Fate!

Aren't you fed up?

Homer: Iliad - Sing oh goddess the perilous wrath of Achilles (prooimion of Iliad)

Homer: Odyssey - Calypso and Ulysses (from Rhapsodia E)

Orphic Hymn to Nature Selected verses from a text which is not just a hymn, but also a great philosophical text

Anacreon: My lyre sings only songs of love (582-485 BC)

Simonides: Danae and Perseus. Lullaby based on the well known myth of the baby Perseus and his mother Danae (6th cent. BC)

Simonides: There is a saying about virtue (6th cent. BC)

Tyrtaeus: Spartan march Paean (7th cent. BC)

Archilochos: Oh soul (7th cent. BC)

Alcaeus: Winter (6th cent. BC)

Mimnermos: Short-lived is treasured youth (7th cent. BC)

Hesiod: Rough is the road to happiness (700 BC)

First Delphic Hymn to Apollo
Extant hymn by Athenaeus (127 BC)

Hymn to Nemesis
Extant hymn by Mesomedes (1st c. AD)

Ie paean Short ritual exclamation

Invocation of Calliope and Apollo
Extant hymn by Mesomedes (1st c. AD)

Hymn to the Holy Trinity
Extant early Christian hymn (Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 1786) by Anonymous 2nd-3rd century A.D

Aren’t you fed up? Arrangement: variations of solo electric guitar performances ranging from modern rock to imitating bagpipes, Greek folk percussion

Looking for something to believe in Arrangement: 12string guitar imitating in some parts of the song the sound of Greek folk instruments; with violin, cello, Greek folk percussion

Nos autem gloriari
Gregorian chant -Language: Latin

All generations
Byzantine chant - Language: Greek

Oh Pure Virgin!
Byzantine chant -Language: Greek

Crown of thorns
Byzantine chant - Language: Greek

Kyrie eleison
Gregorian chant -Language: Greek

Doxastikon
Byzantine chant - Language: Greek

Gloria in excelsis deo
Gregorian chant - Language: Latin

To our defender general
Byzantine chant Language: Greek

Fading world 12-string guitar (classical)

Threnos 12-string guitar (ethnic)

Waltz on ice 12-string guitar (classical)

12-String Amanes 12-string guitar (ethnic)

Minor to major 12-string guitar (ethnic)

The most spoken word 12-string guitar

Pain electric guitar

English suite-Electric electric guitar (classical-rock)

Peripatetic 12-string guitar (ethnic)

My life a race 12-string guitar (classical)

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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''