Singing in Greek

Lydía Zervanos

doi:10.5771/9781442229785

Summary

In Singing in Greek: A Guide to Greek Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire, Lydía Zervanos reveals to singers the vast riches of Greek vocal music. Dating back to 1770, Greek art music—following the Western European styles, often drawing on themes from folk music and motifs—long awaits its rightful place in a truly international vocal repertoire. Modern singers in search of new musical opportunities will find in Singing in Greek the necessary tools to locate and perform art songs and arias from this extensive national vocal repertoire.

Concisely written and full of practical advice, the book opens with an introduction to the Greek alphabet and pronunciation, navigating the assignment of International Phonetic Alphabet symbols. Zervanos covers such topics as Greek vowels, digraphs, consonants, binary consonants, consonant combinations, palatalization, basic Greek grammatical concepts and their role in stress and length, syllabification, and punctuation—all separated into easily referenced chapters and supported by online recordings of native Greek opera singers.

In the second half of Singing in Greek, Zervanos offers a short history of Greek art music, biographies of prominent Greek composers, texts of their most representative works with IPA transcriptions, and word-for-word and poetic translations, with arias and art songs chosen for all voice types and levels. This book also includes indexes of direct vowel-to-IPA and consonant-to-IPA transcriptions, as well as useful appendixes on publications, organizations, and famous Greek poets.

Singing in Greek is a must-have resource for every singer, voice teacher, vocal coach, collaborative pianist, and opera and choral conductor seeking to perform and teach in this unique language, explore the wealth of music available, and expand their knowledge of Greek repertoire.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2015
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4422-2977-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4422-2978-5
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 331
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Recording Examples No access
3. Foreword No access
4. Preface No access
5. Acknowledgments No access
1. 1. The Greek Alphabet No access
  2. Dialects; Syllabification; Syllabic Stress No access
  3. Word Stress No access
  4. Glottal Stop; Punctuation and Apostrophe No access
  5. Digraphs; Diphthongs No access
  6. Palatalization No access
  7. Word Reference; The Greek Phonetic Symbols No access
  8. Pronunciation Checklist No access
2. 1. Open bright [a] – A, α No access
  2. Open [ɛ] – E, ε/Αι, αι No access
  3. Open [i] – Η, η/Ι, ι/Υ, υ/ΕΙ, ει/ΟΙ, οι/Υι, υι No access
  4. Forced Palatalization of Closed [i] No access
  5. Open [ɔ] – Ο, ο/Ω, ω No access
  6. Open [u] – ΟΥ, ου; Vowel Clusters No access
3. 1. Vowel Pronunciation No access
  2. Vowel-Consonant Pronunciation No access
4. 1. Consonant Sounds represented by Single Letters No access
  2. Labiodental Fricatives: Β, β [v] and Φ, φ [f] No access
  3. Dental Fricatives: Δ, δ [ð] and Θ, θ [θ] No access
  4. Voiced Velar and Palatal Fricatives: Γ, γ [ɣ]/[ʝ] No access
  5. Voiceless Velar and Palatal Fricatives: Χ, χ [x]/[ç] No access
  6. Voiceless Velar and Palatal Plosives: Κ, κ [k]/[c] No access
  7. Pronunciation tips on Velar and Palatal Consonants No access
  8. Labiodental Approximants: Λ, λ [l]/[ʎ] No access
  9. Bilabial Nasal Μ, μ [m] No access
  10. Alveolar Nasal N, ν [n]; Palatal Nasal [ɲ] No access
  11. Bilabial Plosive Π, π [p] No access
  12. Alveolar Trill Ρ, ρ [r] No access
  13. Alveolar “Hissing” Ζ, ζ [z] and Σ, σ, ς [s] No access
  14. Voiceless Alveolar Stop Τ, τ [t] No access
  15. 1. Ξ, ξ [ks]; Ψ, ψ [ps] No access
    2. ΤΣ, τσ, τς [ts]; ΤΖ, τζ [dz] No access
  16. 1. Voiced Bilabial Plosive ΜΠ, μπ [b] and [mb] No access
    2. Voiced Alveolar Stop ΝΤ, ντ [d] and [nd] No access
    3. Velar & Palatal Stops: ΓΚ, γκ/ΓΓ, γγ [ɡ]/[ŋɡ]/[ɟ]/[ŋɟ] No access
    4. ΓΓ, γγ [ŋɣ]/[ŋɟ] No access
    5. ΓΧ, γχ [ŋx]; ΓΞ,γξ [ŋks] No access
  17. Adjacent Identical Consonants No access
5. 1. Words with final ν [n] No access
  2. Initial unvoiced consonants No access
  3. Final ς [s] and initial voiced consonants No access
1. 1. Greek Art Music since 1770 No access
  2. The Ionian School of Music No access
  3. The National School of Music No access
  4. Greek Operetta No access
  5. Modernism in Greek Art Music No access
2. 1. Alvanas No access
  2. Domeneginis, Kapnissis, Lambelet, E. No access
  3. Lambiris No access
  4. Liveralis No access
  5. Mastrekinis, Padovanis No access
  6. Rodotheatos, Xyndas No access
3. 1. Hymn to Liberty No access
  2. The Blondie No access
4. 1. Old Dimos No access
  2. Despo (Lambros - Despo scenes and arias) No access
  3. Frossini (Frossini - Mukhtar arias) No access
  4. Three Songs for Soprano and Orchestra No access
5. 1. 1. Crowned with Flowers No access
    2. Ballad No access
    3. The Dream No access
    4. The Last Fairy Tale No access
  2. 1. Separation No access
    2. Arvanitic Girl No access
6. 1. Olympic Hymn No access
  2. I Love You No access
  3. Spring No access
  4. Confession No access
  5. My Vow No access
  6. The Girl’s Spring No access
  7. Lullaby No access
7. 1. Astrinidis No access
  2. Axiotis, Camilleri No access
  3. Evangelatos No access
  4. Georgiadis No access
  5. Kariotakis No access
  6. Konstandinidis No access
  7. Kydoniatis, Lalas No access
  8. Lavragas No access
  9. Lialios, Levidis No access
  10. Michaelides No access
  11. Mitropoulos No access
  12. Nezeritis, Pallandios No access
  13. Petridis No access
  14. Poniridis No access
  15. Riadis No access
  16. Sklavos, Spathis No access
  17. Varvoglis No access
  18. Visvardis, Zoras No access
8. 1. The Mother’s Ring: (Yiannakis’s aria and Mother/Sotiris duet) No access
  2. The Curse No access
  3. Old Zoe No access
  4. Don’t Torment Me and Make Me Cry No access
  5. Oblivion No access
9. 1. 1. Remember! No access
    2. Frossini’s Song No access
  2. Lavrangas: The Water of Sorrow No access
  3. Camilleri: Flowers of the Cliff No access
  4. Riadis: Girl at the Fountain No access
  5. Varvoglis: Euricome No access
  6. Mitropoulos: Kassiani No access
  7. Evangelatos: Lullaby No access
10. 1. 1. The Godson (Vivika/Kiki and Vivika/Harmidis duets) No access
  2. 1. The Apaches of Athens (Vera’s aria) No access
    2. The Mule Driver No access
11. 1. Adamis No access
  2. Antoniou, Christou, Dragatakis No access
  3. Hadjidakis, Koukos No access
  4. Koumentakis, Kounadis, Kouroupos No access
  5. Mamangakis, Papaioannou No access
  6. Sicilianos, Skalkottas No access
  7. Theodorakis, Xenakis No access
  8. 1. Who Took My Love Away No access
  9. Koukos: Manuel Salinas (Bianca, Manuel, Professor arias) No access
12. 16 Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): Five Greek Folk Songs No access
Appendix A Publishers No access Pages 307 - 308
Appendix B Organizations No access Pages 309 - 310
Appendix C Greek Poets No access Pages 311 - 314
1. Consonants to IPA No access
References No access Pages 323 - 326
Index No access Pages 327 - 330
About the Author No access Pages 331 - 331