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Episodes ΙΙ

for mixed choir, tape and three performers

Επεισόδια II

Catalogue No.: YSC71

Status: Completed

Opus: 30

Genre: Tape

Creative Timeline: Second Period

Number of Movements: 1

Instrumentation:

2 Choirs, Piano, Double Bass, Percussion (3 Suspended Cymbals – large, medium, and small, Large Tam-Tam, Small Tamtam, Flexatone, 5 Temple Blocks, Woodblock, Bass Tom, Bells, Tubular Bells, Crotales, Timpani, Xylophone, Vibraphone, Maracas, Claves), Tape

Written in: Athens

Date: March 27, 1971

Duration: 00:10:00

Sicilianos Archive Files

#	Archive Title	Description	Digital Format
1	Sketch Material	Scan of the sketch material. [Unavailable]	PDF
2	Draft Score	Scan of the draft score. [Unavailable]	PDF
3	Full Score	Scan of the full score. [Unavailable]	PDF
4	Composer's Note (Tape)	Scan of the composer's note concerning the tapes. [Unavailable]	PDF
5	Composer's Note	Scan of composrer's note. [Unavailable]	PDF

Discography

#	Album Cover	Title	Artist(s)	Work(s) by Sicilianos	Format	Label	Release Date	Album Page
1		1st, 2nd & 4th Hellenic Week Of Contemporary Music	Alexandros Symeonidis, Andreas Rodousakis, Giannis Mantakas, Giannis Mantakas Choir of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Nelli Semitekolo, Theodore Antoniou		LP - Vinyl	EMI - ODEON	1973	View

Texts

#	Cover	Title	Type	Authorship Year	Language	Remarks	Text Page
1		Modern Music in Greece Today	Lecture	1991	Greek		View

Books

#	Cover	Title	Author(s)	Publisher	Publication Year	Type	Category	Language	Pages	Item Page
1		Perspectives on Greek Musical Modernism	Kostas Chardas, Valia Christopoulou, Dimitris Exarchos, Theodore Karathodoros, Eva Mantzourani, Giorgos Sakallieros, Yorgos Sicilianos, Makis Solomos, Danae Stefanou, Ioannis Tsagkarakis, Costas Tsougras, Panos Vlagopoulos, Petros Vouvaris	Routledge	2025	Musicology	Edited Volume	English		View

Articles & Papers

#	Cover	Title	Author(s)	Affiliation	Publication Year	Language	Remarks	Item Page
1		A selective appropriation: Yorgos Sicilianos between modernism and postmodernism	Valia (Stavroula) Christopoulou	University of Athens	2025	English		View

Performances

#	Date	Venue	City	Country	Festival	Organiser	Artist(s)	Ensemble(s)	Work(s) Performed
1	September 24, 1971	Kotopouli -Rex Theatre	Athens	Greece	Hellenic Week of Contemporary Music	Hellenic Association of Contemporary Music (Ελληνικός Σύνδεσμος Σύχγρονης Μουσικής)	Theodore Antoniou (conductor), Nelli Semitekolo (piano), Andreas Rodousakis (double bass), Alexandros Symeonidis (percussion), Giannis Mantakas (chorusmaster)	Giannis Mantakas Choir of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	Episodes II, Op. 30
2	September 28, 1971	Theatre of the Society for Macedonian Studies	Thessaloniki	Greece	Contemporary Music Days	Hellenic Association of Contemporary Music (Ελληνικός Σύνδεσμος Σύχγρονης Μουσικής)	Theodore Antoniou (conductor), Nelli Semitekolo (piano), Andreas Rodousakis (double bass), Alexandros Symeonidis (percussion), Giannis Mantakas (chorusmaster)	Giannis Mantakas Choir of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	Episodes II, Op. 30
3	April 15, 1972	Holywell Music Room	Oxford	United Kingdom	English Bach Festival	N/A	Guy Protheroe (conductor), Alexander Abercrombie (piano), Barry Guy (double bass), Nigel Shipway (percussion), Richard Bradshaw (chorusmaster)	The Saltarello Choir	Episodes II, Op. 30

Performers

#	Name	Performer Type	Ensembles/Organisations	Profile
1	Alexander Abercrombie	Pianist, Composer		View
2	Alexandros Symeonidis	Percussionist, Conductor		View
3	Andreas Rodousakis	Double Bassist		View
4	Barry Guy	Double Bassist, Composer		View
5	Giannis Mantakas	Chorusmaster	Giannis Mantakas Choir of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	View
6	Giannis Mantakas Choir of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	Choir	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	View
7	Guy Protheroe	Conductor, Composer		View
8	Nelli Semitekolo	Pianist		View
9	Nigel Shipway	Percussionist		View
10	Richard Bradshaw	Conductor, Chorusmaster, Organist	Saltarello Choir	View
11	The Saltarello Choir	Choir		View
12	Theodore Antoniou	Composer, Conductor	Hellenic Group of Contemporary Music Alea III Boston University	View

References

Valia Christopoulou, Yorgos Sicilianos Catalogue of Works [Κατάλογος Έργων Γιώργου Σισιλιάνου] (Athens: Panas Music Papagrigoriou - Nakas, 2011), 84-85
Anastasios Rupert Arthur Mavroudis, Sicilianos, The Greek Modernist: Performing Selected Chamber Works and Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 51 (Athens: Benaki Museum, 2020), 99, 272, 279
Yorgos Sicilianos, On Music [Για τη Μουσική], ed. Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou, foreword by Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou (Athens: Benaki Museum, Hellenic Music Centre, 2011), 159, 346, 347
Dimitris Agrafiotis, Theodore Antoniou, Tatsis Apostolidis, Valia Christopoulou, Giorgos Demertzis, Popi Eustratiadi, Byron Fidetzis, Gianni Ioannides, Apostolos Kostios, Giorgos Kouroupos, Katy Romanou, Yorgos Sicilianos, Michalis Stathopoulos, Nikos Synodinos, and Nikos B. Tsouchlos. Yorgos Sicilianos: In the Avant-Garde of Contemporary Music [Γιώργος Σισιλιανός - Ο συνθέτης στην πρωτοπορία της σύγχρονης μουσικής]. Edited by Valentini Tselika. (Athens: Benaki Museum, 2007), 21, 185, 204, 205, 245
Kostas Chardas, Giorgos Demertzis, Charis Dimaras, Nikos Maliaras, Giorgos Sakallieros, Nikos B. Tsouchlos, Markos Tsetsos, and Panos Vlagopoulos. Yorgos Sicilianos 1920-2005 - Anniversary Tribute [Γιωργος Σισιλιανος 1920-2005 Επετειακο αφιερωμα]. Edited by Stephania Merakos and Valia Vraka. (Athens: Friends of Music Association, 2016), 117

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