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Six Songs

for Single Voice and Piano

Έξι Τραγούδια για μια φωνή και Πιάνο έργ. 37

Catalogue No.: YSC79

Status: Completed

Related Work: Violin Sonata (Scherzo)

Opus: 37

Genre: Voice

Creative Timeline: Second Period

Number of Movements: 6

Movement Titles:

White
Silence
Over the Seasons
The Bell
Dissonant Chord
At the Edge of the Port

Instrumentation:

Voice and Piano

Written in: Athens

Date: March 29, 1975

Duration: Unknown

Sicilianos Archive Files

#	Archive Title	Description	Number of Pages	Digital Format	Linked File
1	Poems	Scan of the handwritten poems.	1	PDF	View or Download
2	Signed Declarations	Scan of signed declarations from Maro Papadimitriou, Takis Sinopoulos, and Giannis Ritsos giving Sicilianos permission to use their poems in his work.	2	PDF	View or Download
3	Dissonant Chord & At the Edge of the Port	Scan of Ritsos's poems "Dissonant Chord" and "At the Edge of the Port" published in a newspaper/magazine literary section with the composer's annotations.	1	PDF	View or Download
4	Sketch Material	Scan of the sketch material.	9	PDF	View or Download
5	Draft Score	Scan of the draft score.	18	PDF	View or Download
6	Full Score	Scan of the full score.	22	PDF	View or Download
7	Composer's Note	Scan of the composer's note.	1	PDF	View or Download
8	Note's on Poem	Scan of the composer's notes on Sinopoulos's Poem.	2	PDF	View or Download

Intertextuality

#	Title	Creator	Type	Remarks	Work Page
1	White	Maro Papadimitriou	Poem	White	View
2	Silence	Maro Papadimitriou	Poem	Silence	View
3	Over the Seasons	Takis Sinopoulos	Poem	Over the Seasons	View
4	The Bell	Takis Sinopoulos	Poem	The Bell	View
5	Dissonant Chord	Yannis Ritsos	Poem	Dissonant Chord	View
6	At the Edge of the Port	Yannis Ritsos	Poem	At the Edge of the Port	View

Discography

#	Album Cover	Title	Artist(s)	Work(s) by Sicilianos	Format	Label	Release Date	Album Page
1		Kaiti Kopanitsa - Greek Composers	Kaiti Kopanitsa, Nelli Semitekolo	Six Songs for Single Voice and Piano Op. 37	Compact Disc	Sirius	2009	View

Texts

#	Cover	Title	Type	Authorship Year	Language	Remarks	Text Page
1		Six Songs, Op. 37 (1975)	Programme Notes	1975	Greek		View
2		Modern Music in Greece Today	Lecture	1991	Greek		View

Books

#	Cover	Title	Author(s)	Publisher	Publication Year	Type	Category	Language	Pages	Item Page
1		Performing Sicilianos: Selected Chamber Works and Concerto for Violin and Orchestra	Anastasios Rupert Arthur Mavroudis	University of London	2015	Musicology, Performance	Thesis	English		View

Performances

#	Date	Venue	City	Country	Festival	Organiser	Artist(s)	Ensemble(s)	Work(s) Performed
1	January 27, 1976	Lenbachhaus	Munich	Germany	N/A	N/A	Spyros Sakkas (voice - baritone), Georgios Kouroupos (piano)	N/A	Six Songs, Op. 37 (selections)
2	February 25, 1976	Theatre of the Society for Macedonian Studies	Thessaloniki	Greece	N/A	"Art" Macedonian Artistic Society	Kaiti Kopanitsa (voice - Mezzo-Soprano), Nelli Semitekolo (piano)	N/A	Six Songs, Op. 37
3	April 13, 1976	British Council	Athens	Greece	N/A	N/A	Kaiti Kopanitsa (voice - Mezzo-Soprano), Nelli Semitekolo (piano)	N/A	Six Songs, Op. 37
4	June 12, 1976	Folkwang Universität der Künste (Folkwang-Hochschule)	Dortmund	Germany	Greek Cultural Days in Dortmund (Griechischen Kulturtagen in Dortmund)	Association of German-Greek Societies EV (Vereinigung Der Deutsch-griechischen Gesellschaften EV) & Hellenic Association of Contemporary Music (Ελληνικός Σύνδεσμος Σύχγρονης Μουσικής)	Spyros Sakkas (voice - baritone), Georgios Kouroupos (piano)	N/A	Six Songs, Op. 37
5	December 17, 1976	French Institute	Athens	Greece	5th Week of Hellenic Contemporary Music	Hellenic Association of Contemporary Music (Ελληνικός Σύνδεσμος Σύχγρονης Μουσικής)	Spyros Sakkas (voice - baritone), Georgios Kouroupos (piano)	N/A	Six Songs, Op. 37
6	April 24, 1977	Saalbau Witten	Witten	Germany	Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik	Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik & Westdeutscher Rundfunk	Spyros Sakkas (voice - baritone), Georgios Kouroupos (piano)	N/A	Six Songs, Op. 37 (selections)
7	April 7, 1987	Pallas Theatre	Athens	Greece	1st Festival of Contemporary Greek Chamber Music	Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sciences, Hellenic Association of Contemporary Music (Ελληνικός Σύνδεσμος Σύχγρονης Μουσικής), Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation, Athens State Orchestra	Maria Marketou-Voudouri (voice - Mezzo-Soprano), Nelli Semitekolo (piano)	N/A	Six Songs, Op. 37
8	May 14, 2022	"Aris Garoufalis" Hall, Athens Conservatoire	Athens	Greece	Tribute to Yorgos Sicilianos	Athens Conservatoire	Dionisios Melogiannidis (tenor) [Op. 49], Konstantinos Destounis (piano) [Op. 37, Op. 49], Angelica Cathariou (mezzo-soprano) [Op. 37], Argyro Sira (violin) [Op. 46, Op. 61], Alexander Botinis (cello) [Op. 46, Op. 61], Marilena Souri (piano) [Op. 46], Babis Karasavvidis (violin II) [Op. 61], Ilias Sdoukos (viola) [Op. 61], Sophia Tamvakopoulou (piano) [Op. 61]	N/A	Six Songs Op. 37, Pantoum Op. 46, A Small Escape Op. 49, Piano Quintet Op. 61
9	June 10, 2022	Lilian Voudouri Music Library	Athens	Greece	N/A	Music Library of Greece "Lilian Voudouri"/ Friends of Music Society	Ioanna Vrakatseli (Mezzo-Soprano), Christos Marinos (piano)	Duo Vocialo	Six Songs Op. 37
10	February 23, 2025	Ersi Saratsi Hal, Municipal Conservatory of Volos	Volos	Greece	Chimonanthos Festival 2025	Municipal Conservatory of Volos	Ioanna Vrakatseli (Mezzo-Soprano), Christos Marinos (piano)	Duo Vocialo	Six Songs Op. 37

Performers

#	Name	Performer Type	Ensembles/Organisations	Profile
1	Angelica Cathariou	Mezzo-Soprano	University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece	View
2	Christos Marinos	Pianist	University of Minnesota New York University University of Ioannina Duo Vocialo Duo Vivo	View
3	Georgios Kouroupos	Pianist, Composer		View
4	Ioanna Vrakatseli	Mezzo-Soprano	Greek National Opera Duo Vocialo	View
5	Kaiti Kopanitsa	Mezzo-Soprano		View
6	Konstantinos Destounis	Pianist	Athens Conservatoire University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki, Greece	View
7	Maria Marketou-Voudouri	Mezzo-Soprano	Greek National Opera	View
8	Nelli Semitekolo	Pianist		View
9	Spyros Sakkas	Baritone, Composer	Greek National Opera	View
10	Yannis Ritsos	Poet, Narrator		View

Broadcasts

#	Image	Title	Format	Channel/Station	Date	Broadcast Page
1		Six Songs Op. 37 - Music Library of Greece "Lilian Voudouri"	Stream	YouTube	August 16, 2022	View

References

Valia Christopoulou, Yorgos Sicilianos Catalogue of Works [Κατάλογος Έργων Γιώργου Σισιλιάνου] (Athens: Panas Music Papagrigoriou - Nakas, 2011), 100-101
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, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 199, 249, 274, 276, 358
Yorgos Sicilianos, On Music [Για τη Μουσική], ed. Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou, foreword by Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou (Athens: Benaki Museum, Hellenic Music Centre, 2011), 330, 348, 424
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), 23, 186
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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