«“Nobile Teatro di San Giacomo di Corfù”: an overview of its significance for the Greek ottocento»

Paper in the XI Convegno Annuale di Società Italiana di Musicologia (Lecce, 22–24/10/ 2004)

«Musical echoes of the French Revolution in the Ionian Islands»

'Ο Eranistes' 26 (2007), 79–104 [published in January 2009] (in Greek)

This article examines the changes that were brought  to music in Ionian Islands due to the coming of the Revolutionary French Army (1797-1799), which heralded the fall of the aristogratic regime. Based on recently retrieved archival sources, details regarding the revolutionary 'fetes' in the Ionian Islands are reconstructed and the use of music as a propagandistic medium is underlined. From this point of view, of particular importance is the use of greek verse adapted on french revolutionary melodies, as it is designated by the archival material. It is also pointed out that the experience and the melodic rememberance of this politically orientated use of music remained, directly or not, vivid in the Ionian Islands during 19th century through the original (and sometimes 'monumental') patriotic anthems that were created by Ionian composers, who in this way expressed the romantic nationalism or the social struggles of their compatriots. It is also pointed out that french revolutionary melodies in greek verse constituted a significant part of the greek military music of the 1821 revolution in mainland Greece.

The Music of Ionian Islands (in Greek)

Chapter in collective volume 'Ionian Islands; History and Culture'  published in 2008

The Music of the Ionian Islands (in English)

Summarized version in English of a chapter in the collective volume 'Ionian Islands; History and Culture' published in 2008