MUSICOLOGY
(Musicología)
Review of Theory and Praxis of Music
George Fitsioris
Ph.D. in Musicology (Athens
University, Music Department, 2000), M.A. in Music Theory (Washington
University in St. Louis, Music Department, 1996). He also studied architecture
and music theory in Athens. Now, as an
associate professor at the Music Department of the University of
Athens, he teaches the courses of “Theory and Practice of Tonal Music”,
“Theory and Practice of Renaissance Music” and “Musical Hermeneutics”,
as well as seminars on theory and analysis of tonal, modal and rock music. His
interests and research include work on Schenkerian theory and methodology, on
the implementation of semiotic, phenomenological and, mainly, narratological
models in music analysis, as well as on the history of music theory and
compositional practices of late-medieval and renaissance music. He is a member of the advisory and the editorial board of the scientific
journal Musicologia. In 2004 Nefeli-books
has published his first book under the title Introduction to the Theory and Analysis of Tonal Music. A second
book, The Bach Chorales, Placed within a
Broader Historical Period of Compositional and Theoretical Pursuits (15th-18th
centuries), has been published by Panas Music in 2010.