Athena Katsanevaki

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | AUTH · School of Music Studies

Athena Katsanevaki (Greece) "Chorlu Mare – Tranos Choros: Two linguistic-ethnic groups in one community dance" The Chorlu Mare (“the great communal dance”) is a ritual performance, common in most of the communities of Western Greece. The Vlach-speakers of the area call it “Chorlu Mare” which means “The Great Dance”. The Greek-speakers call it “Tran...

Pentatonism in ancient Greek music refers to so called ‘gapped scales’, quoted by Pseudo-Aristotle, Pseudo-Plutarch, Nicomachus and Aristides Quintilianus. In the case of Nicomachus, the interchangeabilities of pitches and positions of notes, with the musical nomenclature, make the text incomprehensible. These extracts have already been analyzed by...

"The Vertiskos Project" features an initiative of the Academy in the environs out of and around the City, among the local communities. It is a reanimation of relationships among the students and academic teachers, and the local communities of the area, in the form of an Ethnographic field research, a concert, and a digital archive.

Katsanevaki-Petrinioti "Traditional Singing as experience, art, fieldwork and teaching method" Singing in the framework of European music and Music Education is considered an Art and presupposes a method which enables those involved with it to acquire specific techniques and performing abilities. These abilities enable them to reflect their own ex...

Το άρθρο αυτό παρουσιάζει την εθνομουσικολογική έρευνα που επιτελέσθηκε στην περιοχή Ασκίου μία μικρή πολιτισμική περιοχή μέσα στην ευρύτερη περιοχή Βοίου_Ανασελίτσας Σιάτιστας και οροπεδίου Κοζάνης (Τσαρσαμπά). Η έρευνα εντάσει την περιοχή αυτή στα γεωγραφικά Ιστορικά και πολιτισμικά μουσικά της συμφραζόμενα παρουσιάζοντας τις σχέσεις του μουσικού...

Κατσανεβάκη Αθηνά "Τα μοιρολόγια της Αιανής και η συνεισφορά τους στη βαθύτερη γνώση της μουσικής παράδοσης της Πίνδου οικισμός της Αιανής". Τα μοιρολόγια της Αιανής αποτελούν μέρος της ευρύτερης μουσικής παράδοσης της περιοχής Βορείου Πίνδου και των γύρω από αυτήν περιοχών. Ωστόσο εθνομουσικολογική έρευνα στον οικισμό αποκάλυψε μελωδικούς τύπους...

Abstract: This research explores the musical culture of an unknown area of Northwestern Greece (Western Macedonia and Epirus) and its neighboring areas in the State of North Macedonia and Northern Epirus in Southern Albania. It reveals that areas considered alien and linguistically distinguished from each other, belong to the same musical culture d...

Abstract This research explores the musical culture of an unknown area of Northwestern Greece (Western Macedonia and Epirus) and its neighboring areas in the State of North Macedonia and Northern Epirus in Southern Albania. It reveals that areas considered alien and linguistically distinguished from each other, belong to the same musical culture de...

Katsanevaki Athena 2014-2016, "Η φωνητική παράδοση της Δυτικής Μακεδονίας και τα κρυμμένα Ιστορικά της μηνύματα» 1ο συνέδριο για την Ιστορία της Δυτικής Μακεδονίας 2-5 Οκτωβρίου 2014 Τόμος πρακτικών "Η Δυτική Μακεδονία στους Νεότερους Χρόνους" ΕΔΔΥΜΕ, Εταιρεία Δυτικομακεδονικών Μελετών, Έκδοση e-book,2016] σ.1121-1140. Το ζήτημα της «ταυτότητας» α...

A performance of three extracts of Ancient Greek Music based on contemporary research and historical analysis presenting analogies between the forms, the musical formulas and the process of the melodies, of the ancient extracts and definite melodies found in the oral contemporary musical traditions of Western Greece of today. The performance aims a...

Στο άρθρο αυτό παρουσιάζεται η "παραλλαγή" ως μέρος της διαδικασίας του αυτοσχεδιασμού και ταυτόχρονα ως οργανικό στοιχείο της "σύνθεσης". Παρουσιάζεται η σημασία της διαδικασίας της μέσα από την ανάλυση συγκεκριμένων μουσικών μοτίβων στην παραδοσιακή μουσική και συγκεκριμένα στην περιοχή της δυτικής Ελλάδας μέσα από την επιτόπια εθνομουσικολογική...

Death and our reactions to it, have been major concerns for many disciplines: historical studies, archaeology in general and prehistoric archaeology in particular, psychology, philosophy, social sciences and social anthropology, ethnomusicology, and the anthropology of music. This work, among others, reflects that (though the starting point of musi...

This paper presents an empirical experiment aiming to investigate the potential influence of timbral semantics on tension induction in Greek traditional folk music. To this end, a group of seventeen listeners rated the evolution of auditory luminance, texture and mass together with the felt tension over sixteen musical excerpts in real-time. Correl...

This is a video accompanying the article "The importance of the community..."

This is a video accompanying the article "The importance of the community..."

This is a video accompanying the article "The importance of the community..."

This is a video accompanying the article "The importance of the community..."

Having as a starting point a typical phrase -“all our songs once were laments”- repeated to the researcher during fieldwork, this study aims to explore the multiple ways in which lament practices become part of other musical practices in community life or change their functionalities and how they contribute to music making. Though the meaning of th...

It is generally accepted that traditional culture is subjected to formalization and that change and instability is part of modernity. Systematic analysis of musical traditions that seem to have developed conservatism in social terms and in culture, has revealed their basis in formulas which function as compositional components combined according to...

The hemitonic pentatonic tuning in Western Greece attested by the author and the anhemitonic tuning previously documented in the area of Epirus but apparently present in all Western Greece, were two main reasons for the investigation and classification of the co-related micro-scales found in the wider area of Pindus. Though many scholars both Greek...

Singing is, as a European art, usually considered a performing art developed by methods aiming to promote technical and performing skills. When it comes to traditional music, singing as art stems from personal experience, the embodiment of traditional forms, and the simultaneous promotion of singing skills required by the music itself. Since histor...

Chromaticism is a phenomenon which is shared by different musical cultures. In the Balkans it is evident both in ecclesiastical and traditional music. In antiquity it was attested by ancient Greek writers and was described in theory. It is also apparent in different forms in ancient Greek musical fragments. Nevertheless it is disputed whether it re...

Historical Musicology and ethnomusicology developed as different scientific fields. nonetheless it gradually becomes obvious that an interdisciplinary approach in both fields reveals important dimensions which fill the picture of both approaches. i will try to orientate to certain social dimensions found in the historical sources and to some import...

The importance of the community in Greece is a matter that has been discussed by a wide variety of writers. Nevertheless one way to comprehend it is to follow its impact on contemporary research. This impact is located in two ways: firstly in the lives of the researchers themselves as they reveal the quest for the community inside our modern world....

Both during and before the period of Turkish rule the base of the administrative system in Greece was the societal cell, or community. However, during the regency, Greece was forced to adapt to the ideals of German romanticism concerning the “organism”, which is the nation-state in centralized form. Thus the autonomy of the community was shaken. Th...

In the upland communities of the Pindus mountains there is a heterogeneous vocal repertory which traces its origins to urban influences from the urban Centers around the Pindus mountains. This paper explores the historical and social reasons for the introduction of this heterogeneous repertory in the vocal oral tradition and the small scale societi...

In the region of Pindus (Epirus) we find, among others, hemitonic pentatonic scales in which the semitone is below a major third. Such melodic movements bear marked similarities with the description in the pseudo-Plutarch of the birth of the enharmonic genus. These data from history are confirmed in practical form by ethnomusicological research int...