The teaching of ancient Greek music in the Greek public education

Κώστας Ζερβόπουλος

Προφορική ανακοίνωση: ερευνητική εργασία

Abstract

In the announcement, will be attempted an approach to the teaching of important aspects of ancient Greek music in the Greek public education, with an emphasis on its teaching in the secondary education, since 1990.

Topics
  • Interdisciplinary approaches in music education
  • Curricula and critical approaches
  • Historical and cultural perspectives and contemporary educational practices
  • Digital environment and music Education
Keywords ancient greek music, music theory, drama, musical instruments, music terminology, public education
Presentation Language Ελληνική
Author(s) CV

Born in Corfu, Greece, in September 2nd 1970, where he took his first music lessons. He studied in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Faculty of Arts, Department of Musical Studies), Musicology and Musical Pedagogy. Being, also, a flutist, he further studied in the Ionian University (PhD in Musicology, his thesis is available in https://www.didaktorika.gr/eadd/handle/10442/20917 ).

Working as a music educator in the Secondary Education in Greece, since 1998, he has been Headmaster of the Music School of Corfu (2012-2017), Headmaster in the High School of Kassiopi (since 2017). He is the Music Director of the Philarmonic Band “Spiros Samaras” in Corfu, since 2012 and Headmaster of Skripero High School since July 2023.

As a musicologists he has participated in many conferences and meetings, he participated in a major project of digitizing transcribing and publishing music score archives of Ionian Islands Philarmonic Bands (http://musicarchives.dlib.ionio.gr/musicarchives/) and is currently working on publishing all the settings in music of the Hymn to Liberty, the magnum opus of Nikolaos Halikiopoulos Mantzaros (Corfu, 1795-1872).