Mikis Theodorakis: Approaches to Music for Ancient Drama
Although an immense amount of work has been expended on the theory of ancient music, comparatively little is known about how ancient melody actually sounded. Ancient music was a product of the sharing of all citizens, however, and the poet who wrote the tragedies and composed his own music always had his fellow citizens in mind and articulated their experiences through the universal language of myth. It is this ancient concept of oneness —of poet, composer, and people— that Mikis Theodorakis has sought in his music for classical drama.
