Unit:
Κατεύθυνση ΛαογραφίαLibrary of the School of Philosophy
Author:
Chaldaiaki Evangelia
Supervisors info:
Βασιλική Χρυσανθοπούλου, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια Κοινωνικής Λαογραφίας, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή ΕΚΠΑ
Μαριάνθη Καπλάνογλου, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια Λαογραφίας, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή ΕΚΠΑ
Αναστάσιος Χαψούλας, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής Εθνομουσικολογίας, Τμήμα Μουσικών Σπουδών, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Ο Κ. Α. Ψάχος και η συμβολή του στην καταγραφή και μελέτη ελληνικών δημοτικών τραγουδιών
Translated title:
C. A. Psachos and his contribution to recording and studying Greek folk songs
Summary:
C. A. Psachos (1869-1949) was a musicologist born in Istanbul. He came to Greece to establish the School of Byzantine and Ecclesiastical Music at the Athens Conservatoire. He was a great scholar: he wrote many books on Byzantine music, many articles on issues relating to folk music and folklore, but also to Theology and Philology. He was also a composer of Byzantine and European music. While in Greece, he carried out fieldwork within the country, where he gathered and documented folk songs, utilizing two musical notation systems, namely those used in European and in Byzantine music. He was the first musician in Greece to use a phonograph while doing fieldwork, for recording folk songs in their context of performance. The purpose of this study is to: 1. Gather information about C. A. Psachos’ life as the researchers that have, so far, written about Psachos’ have not done so. The study is aimed to be a complete guide for researchers who wish to study Psachos’ work (such as musicologists or folklorists). 2. Give details about Psachos’ fieldwork relating to recording folk songs. 3. Show how advanced Psachos was for his era. Note that he started gathering and writing down folk music before the discipline of Folklore Studies had been established in Greece and before Ethnomusicology had even originated (these two disciplines specializing nowadays in recording and studying folk music). 4. Point out the innovative approaches that Psachos brought to Folklore Studies: new topics to study and new research methodologies. 5. Illustrate the benefits deriving from the interdisciplinary collaboration between Folklore Studies and Musicology, a co-operation that Psachos’ achieved at an early stage.
Main subject category:
Geography - Anthropology - Folklore
Keywords:
C. A. Psachos, greek folk music, greek folk songs, musical records of greek folk songs, Skyros, Peloponnese, Crete, Gortynia, Athens conservatoire, byzantine music
Number of references:
233
