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ΜΟΡΦΟΛΟΓΙΑ I [ΠΑΝEΠΙΣΤΗΜΙΟ ΜΑΚEΔΟΝΙΑΣ, ΣΧΟΛΗ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΩΝ, ΑΝΘΡΩΠΙΣΤΙΚΩΝ EΠΙΣΤΗΜΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΤEΧΝΩΝ, ΤΜΗΜ... more ΜΟΡΦΟΛΟΓΙΑ I [ΠΑΝEΠΙΣΤΗΜΙΟ ΜΑΚEΔΟΝΙΑΣ, ΣΧΟΛΗ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΩΝ, ΑΝΘΡΩΠΙΣΤΙΚΩΝ EΠΙΣΤΗΜΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΤEΧΝΩΝ, ΤΜΗΜΑ ΜΟΥΣΙΚΗΣ EΠΙΣΤΗΜΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΤEΧΝΗΣ]

Composed in the mid 1870’s, Modest Musorgsky’s song cycle Songs and Dances of Death can be easily... more Composed in the mid 1870’s, Modest Musorgsky’s song cycle Songs and Dances of Death can be easily placed within the geographically and temporally situated cultural and sociopolitical context of the subject matter of dying that thematically unifies it. The article focuses on the set’s second song, [GA1] titled “Serenade,” seeking to investigate the structural conditions that afford its hermeneutic association with this context. To do so, it borrows its critical apparatus from Mikhail Bakhtin’s literary theory, and particularly the notions of heteroglossia and dialogism, intersected with the concept of markedness, as it has been appropriated to musicology from structural linguistics by Robert Hatten. The analysis demonstrates the song’s heteroglot disposition, evinced by the stylistic opposition of its two comprising sections, the first unmarked and the second marked by readily identifiable tokens of Russianness. In particular, it concentrates on the song’s tonal duality, re-conceptu...

An element that remains consistently distinctive in the writings of the Greek composer Michalis A... more An element that remains consistently distinctive in the writings of the Greek composer Michalis Adamis (b. 1929) is his lifelong conviction to the dynamic interrelation between symbolism and abstraction that permeates the aesthetic orientation of his compositional outlook. Apart from, but not contrary to his belief in the inherently abstract nature of music, Adamis considers the symbolic qualification of his music’s semantic content commensurate with the historical or cultural distance from the shared frame of reference that defines its symbolic dimension. In terms of compositional practice, the abstract inherence of Adamis’s music is allowed to emerge not through the deployment of automated procedures upon semantically sanitized musical material but through an attempt to incorporate material and procedures from his Byzantine and Greek traditional musical inheritance. The structural means effectuating this attempt pertains primarily to the centonization of idiomatic melodic formulas...

Musicae Scientiae, 2018

According to the critics of Conceptual Blending Theory (CBT), most of its creativity-related appl... more According to the critics of Conceptual Blending Theory (CBT), most of its creativity-related applications tend to conflate the role of producer and consumer, implicitly proposing the deduction of the former’s creative perspective from the finished product through a process of reverse-engineering the latter’s meaning-making strategies. However, given the non-linearity and multi-directionality of the actual creative praxis, the relation between these two roles as heuristic categories need not be considered so much oppositional, as dialectical. Investigating the cognitive mechanisms involved in the ongoing creative process within the context of this dialectical relationship can help us gain some insight into both perspectives, while eschewing the elusiveness of their precise demarcation. The case study presented in this article constitutes such an attempt. By adopting a CBT approach, it offers an interpretation of the creative thinking behind the 2001 short film Copy Shop, informed by ...

International Journal of Music and Performing Arts, 2021

This paper investigates the factors that influence career decision-making and the course of profe... more This paper investigates the factors that influence career decision-making and the course of professional musicians in Greece. The role of family, friends/peers and music teachers is examined, as well as those aspects of personality, which are related with career choices and professional development. Data analysis of 20 semi-structured interviews led to the following conclusions: regarding the environmental factors, family, friends/peers and teachers seem to bear in an ongoing and multifaceted way upon facilitating or complicating the process of professional decision-making. The role of personality appears more crucial in the development towards a music career. An interesting corollary of the study is the conspicuous absence of career guidance and counseling services from external supporting influences. A planned and systematic provision for professional career guidance and counseling is recommended, as a means to offer a firm and informed support to graduate music students of both secondary and higher education in Greece.

Conference Presentations by Petros Vouvaris

International Conference "Echoes: Digital Technologies applied to Music Research. Methodologies,... more International Conference "Echoes: Digital Technologies applied to Music Research. Methodologies, Projects and Challenges", CESEM-Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, 27- 29 June 2024, Lisboa.

Musicae Scientiae, 2018

International Journal of Music and Performing Arts, 2021