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Vivi G. Kanellatou’s expertise is in teaching Greek traditional, and popular singing (monophonic and polyphonic) and also in creating and conducting vocal ensembles (monophonic or polyphonic) of greek traditional and popular music.

The term “Greek traditional and popular singing” is defined by the following basic characteristics:

  • Singing that has developed in mainland Greece by communities of Greek ethnic identity, or in areas outside the Greek state where communities or people of Greek national identity exist.
  • Singing transmitted orally and constantly recreated and reinstated in place and time.

 

Content of teaching Greek Traditional, Rembetiko & Early Artistic Popular Singing

Teaching Greek traditional, rembetiko and early artistic popular singing includes:

  • reference to its historical, social, chorological and cultural framework
  • analysis of the music theory system of the Greek manner
  • positioning vocal style depending on local singing idioms and local speech
  • repertory

 

Repertoire of teaching Greek Traditional, Rembetiko & Early Artistic Popular Singing

TRADITIONAL SINGING ART:

  • Greek Polyphonic Singing, South part of Pogoni Province, Ioannina prefecture (Epirus).
  • Women’s Diphonic  Singing, North part of Drama prefecture (Macedonia).
  • Singing Art of Insular Greece (the Cyclades, the Dodecanese, Lesbos, Chios, Euboea, the Sporades, the Ionian islands).
  • Singing Art of Mainland Greece (Sterea Hellada, Epirus, Macedonia, Thrace).
  • Singing Art from Propontis, from the West and South coasts of Asia Minor and from Kappadokia.
  • Early Artistic Popular Singing Art of Ioannina, Zagori, Thessaloniki, Constantinople and Smyrna.

POPULAR SINGING ART:

  • Rembetiko of Asia Minor.
  • Rembetiko of Pyreus.
  • Popular Singing Art in Athens, Trikalla, Volos, Thessaloniki, Syros island (up to 1965).

EARLY ARTISTIC POPULAR SINGING ART:

  • Early Artistic Popular Singing, songs of lyric theatre (inter-war, pre-war and after- war periods).
  • Early Artistic Popular Singing (serenades - cantades) in Athens, Kefallonia, Zakynthos and Kerkyra (Corfou).

 

Methodology of teaching Greek Traditional, Rembetiko & Early Artistic Popular Singing

The methodology followed for the teaching of traditional, rembetiko and early artistic popular singing in vocal groups is based on the following principles:

  • Oral interpretation of each song, where the musical characteristics are presented (melody, interpretation style, tonal spectrum).
  • Comments regarding the words and basic musicological and socio-cultural information.
  • Offering sound material from primary or secondary sources

Additional methodological material is used in the case of teaching master-classes or seminars of specific musical instances as for example, singing from particular areas/communities (polyphonic singing of the Pogoni area in Epirus, diphony from the county of Drama), or musical periods (urban singing of Smyrni, rembetiko, Athenian cantades):

  • Extensive observations on the particular musical phenomenon regarding the historical, social, chorological and cultural background of its development, its musicological analysis, with its related discography and bibliography and finally, with the musical networks that have been created and illustrate it.
  • Scores and tablatures containing the notational form of the musical phenomenon.

 

Ways of teaching Greek Traditional, Rembetiko & Early Artistic Popular Singing

The ways in which traditional, rembetiko and early artistic popular singing can be taught are:

  • Private one-hour classes for up to four people.
  • One and a half or two-hour classes for vocal, dance and theatre groups.
  • Two or three-day long master classes (5- 6 teaching hours per day), for singers or groups.
  • Four to ten-day seminars (5- 6 teaching hours per day), for singers or groups.