The Catalogue, chronological or systematic, is the first and main “tool” for approaching the works of a composer under certain conditions, in fact, it constitutes a means of penetrating the creator’s world, an effective means of revealing and promoting his work at all. Lists of works compiled with scientific specifications could be likened to old maps, which do not reveal the abundance of recorded information until after persistent study. The answers that the researcher obtains, the acquired knowledge, depend on how he formulates his questions and on his ability for a complex process of data correlation. The number of elements potentially offered for building a catalogue of works is theoretically inexhaustible, but the danger of producing a complex, unwieldy “map” that will not lead the “explorer” to the discovery of the “new world” is obvious. The success of a catalogue, therefore, depends to a great extent on the elements which the cataloguer selects. The researcher, Ph.D. in musicology Valia Christopoulou, made her own choice based on proven cataloguing applications, while at the same time attempting to expand the functionality of the Catalogue of the works of Yorgos Sicilianos by introducing new -extremely important- elements. It is not an exaggeration to claim that a short biography can be written from the Catalogue of a composer’s works alone and that cataloguing is a necessary condition for the foundation and construction of the authorial architecture of a complete monograph.
-From the back cover description written by Prof. Apostolos Kostios.
