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Seven Mystic Songs

for Bass and Orchestra

Επτά Μυστικά Τραγούδια για Βαθύφωνο και Ορχήστρα έργο 62

Catalogue No.: YSC105

Status: Completed

Opus: 62

Genre: Voice

Creative Timeline: Third Period

Number of Movements: 7

Movement Titles:

The Leaf
Oh! Night
Lake, Moon, Dawn, Nigh
Spring
Ulysses Island
I have lost nothing
And suddenly it’s evening

Instrumentation:

2222-2420, Timpani, Percussion (Snare Drum, Crotales, Suspended Cymbal, Cymbals, Xylophone, Woodblock, 5 Temple Blocks, Flexatone, Triangle, Bass Drum), Strings, Bass (voice)

Written in: Athens

Date: January 22, 2004

Duration: 00:24:00

Sicilianos Archive Files

#	Archive Title	Description	Number of Pages	Digital Format	Linked File
1	Draft Score	Scan of the draft score.	26	PDF	View or Download
2	Sketch Material	Scan of the sketch material.	10	PDF	View or Download
3	Full Score	Scan of the full score.	31	PDF	View or Download
4	Poems Typeset	Scan of the typeset poems used in this work.	5	PDF	View or Download

Intertextuality

#	Title	Creator	Type	Remarks	Work Page
1	Leaf	Umberto Saba	Poem	The Leaf	View
2	Oh! Night	Giuseppe Ungaretti	Poem	2. Oh! Night	View
3	Lake Moon Dawn Night	Giuseppe Ungaretti	Poem	3. Lake Moon Dawn Night	View
4	Spring	Giuseppe Ungaretti	Poem	4. Spring	View
5	Ulysses’ Island	Salvatore Quasimodo	Poem	5. Ulysses’ Island	View
6	I Have Lost Nothing	Salvatore Quasimodo	Poem	6. I have lost nothing	View
7	And suddenly it’s evening	Salvatore Quasimodo	Poem	7. And suddenly it’s evening	View

Performances

#	Date	Venue	City	Country	Festival	Organiser	Artist(s)	Ensemble(s)	Work(s) Performed
1	March 11, 2005	Friends of Music Hall (Christos Lambrakis Hall)	Athens	Greece	N/A	Athens State Orchestra	Nikos Tsouchlos (conductor), Christophoros Stamboglis (bass)	Athens State Orchestra	Seven Mystic Songs, Op. 62

Performers

#	Name	Performer Type	Ensembles/Organisations	Profile
1	Athens State Orchestra	Orchestra		View
2	Christophoros Stamboglis	Bass (voice)	Greek National Opera	View
3	Nikos Tsouchlos	Conductor, Pianist	Athens Conservatoire Ionian University Athens Concert Hall	View

References

Valia Christopoulou, Yorgos Sicilianos Catalogue of Works [Κατάλογος Έργων Γιώργου Σισιλιάνου] (Athens: Panas Music Papagrigoriou - Nakas, 2011), 147-148
Francis Guy, Yorgos Sicilianos - diapason a dialogue with Francis Guy [Γιωργος Σισιλιανος - διαπασων ενας διαλογος με τον Φρανσις Γκαϋ] (Cyprus: Cyprus Wine Museum, 2009), 67, 128, 147
Anastasios Rupert Arthur Mavroudis, Sicilianos, The Greek Modernist: Performing Selected Chamber Works and Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 51 (Athens: Benaki Museum, 2020), 9, 278
Yorgos Sicilianos, On Music [Για τη Μουσική], ed. Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou, foreword by Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou (Athens: Benaki Museum, Hellenic Music Centre, 2011), 207
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), 24, 30, 113, 183, 186, 210, 211
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), 119

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