title: 1...789
title: MISAME
creator: Xanthoudakēs, Charēs
publisher: Mnémothèque Internationale des Sciences et Arts en Musique
 Électroacoustique
date: 1989
language: No Language
description: Haris XANTHOUDAKIS: 1 ... 789

It is the setting to music (of the
 "setting in rhythm", more precisely) of two Greek texts talking about the
 French revolution and illustrating two opposite aspects of its impact in
 Greece, still occupied by the Turks, of the end of the seventeenth century: a
 "Patriarchal letter" (sort of circular of the Patriarch of Constantinople, to
 read in the Orthodox churches), condemning the French who "practiced the
 fraticide, killed their king and lost their faith in God" (in this order) and,
 on the other hand, a poem by Antonios Martelaos (1754-1818), congratulating
 the French for having shed blood for the freedom of the people. The first text
 is played at the beginning and end of the song (phonetically reversed and in a
 normal voice, respectively). The other forms slowly, parallel to a rhythmic
 accompaniment, of "disco" nature. This double reconstitution will be done in
 steps of proportion 1: 2: 3: ...: 7: 8: 9. A portion of this proportion,
 namely 1: 7: 8: 9, serves to generate an interval pattern (semitone, fifth,
 sixth minor, sixth major) that appears in both its sequential and simultaneous
 forms. Repetitive music, "disco" music, serial music, for a piece that wants
 to celebrate a bicentennial, its contradictory way, while keeping its
 distance.
subject: Electronic music
subject: Electroacoustic music
subject: pre-recorded audio
rights: Use restricted to UNT Community
type: Sound
format: 1 sound recording (15 min., 16 sec.)
format: Audio
identifier: local-cont-no: 103336
identifier: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1505861/
identifier: ark: ark:/67531/metadc1505861