The conditions for the operation of the Schools of Traditional Music in the primary and private schools were determined by the Ministry of Culture, while the relevant ministerial decision was published in the Government Gazette (17/1/2022).
According to the Ministry of Culture, “with the institutionalization of traditional music studies, an important obligation of the State is fulfilled towards all those who have dedicated their lives and work to this type of music,” said the Minister of Culture, noting that this development , “Thematically expands and upgrades the quality of Greek music education”, while creating the conditions for the reactivation of instrument makers, who use this type of music, preserving long traditions. “For the first time, since the 19th century, when music schools started operating, the departments of Traditional Music Instruments are recognized by the State”, said Mrs. Mendoni.
With the ministerial decision, the Schools of Traditional Music are recognized, studies and titles of the established Greek traditional instruments, in the local, pan-Hellenic and wider eastern repertoire, in the individual genres of folk, modern Greek folk and “word” – artful Greek traditional music and in-use loans from related musical traditions of the eastern Mediterranean. The study departments are: Song and instruments of pan-Hellenic and wider eastern repertoire, instruments of local traditional repertoires, instruments of the special repertoire of modern Greek folk urban music, and theoretical ones.
For his part, the Deputy Minister of Culture, Nikolas Giatromanolakis, stated that “this move by the Ministry of Culture comes to fill a significant gap in the field of traditional music studies. In addition, the strengthening of the teaching of musical instruments will in turn contribute to the development of their manufacturing industry, thus keeping alive traditional techniques of centuries. It is the first step, as we are already in a process of planning the modernization and upgrading of music studies and the way conservatories operate in Greece, a backlog of decades that has left the degrees of their graduates “.
See all the news
Follow Skai.gr on Google News
and be the first to know all the news
