Polina Tambakaki is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Hellenic Studies (CHS), King’s College London.Panos Vlagopoulos is Associate Professor in the Department of Music Studies and Director of the Hellenic Music Lab at the Ionian University, Corfu.Katerina Levidou is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London.Roderick Beaton is Emeritus Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King’s College London.

• Editors’ prefaceList of ContributorsIntroductionRoderick BeatonPart I Contested histories: Greek art music in retrospect1. Karl Otfried Müller and Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos: Dorism, music and Greek identityChristophe Corbier2. Canonising Byzantine chant as Greek art musicAlexander Lingas3. National music history on the eve of ‘the end of music history’: Greek music historiography and its Western modelsKaty Romanou4. Odes, anthems and battle songs: creating citizens through music in Greece during the long nineteenth centuryKostas Kardamis5. Delving into the Athens Conservatoire Archive: musical education as a national needStella KourmpanaPart II ‘National music’: Kalomiris, Skalkottas and beyond6. The harmonisation of Greek folk songs and Greek ‘national music’Panos Vlagopoulos7. Alternative Greek national music: the case of Petros PetridisNikos Maliaras8. The last defender: Kalomiris’s Constantine Palaiologos and the ‘Idea of Greek Music’Ioannis Tsagkarakis9. A Greek icon: heteroglossia, ambiguity and identity in the music of Nikos SkalkottasEva Mantzourani10. A museum of Greekness: Skalkottas’ 36 Greek dances as a record of his homeland and his timeKaterina Levidou11. Traversing melancholy: Skalkottas reads EsperasPetros VouvarisPart III Music and language: modern poetry, ancient drama12. ‘You used to sing all my songs’: poetry, language and song from Solomos to SeferisPeter Mackridge13. Reading Polylas’s ‘Prolegomena’ (1859): poetry and music, history and cultural politicsPolina Tambakaki14. Can surrealism sing? Nikos Gatsos and song-writingEffie Rentzou15. Greek productions of ancient Greek drama in the first half of the twentieth century: music and wordsAnastasia Siopsi16. Performing (ancient) Greek modernism: modernist music and the staging of ancient dramaKostas ChardasAfterwordJim SamsonAppendix: Greek composers setting poetry to music: a personal perspectiveGeorge CourouposIndex