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Title: Arnisi (Sto perigiali)
Other Titles: Refusal (On the seashore)
Date: 1962
Creator: Theodorakis, Mikis
Contributor: Lyricist: Seferis, Giorgos
Keywords: life
heart
desire
passion
erroneously
refusal
seashore
Place of Production: Greece
Musical meter: 4/4 (four fourths)
First words: On the hidden and white as a dove seashore
Vocal range: Octave
Psychopedagogical goals: Discussion skills.
Critical thinking.
Personal expression.
Understanding the significance of personal-reflection.
Musical goals: Active listening
Dotted notes
Lyrical and epic style.
Music reading.
Set to music poetry.
Expressive musical elements.
Teaching ideas: Study and analysis of the lyrics of Giorgos Seferis' poem and discussion about their symbolisms (seashore, thirst, salty water, writing on the sand and wind).
Discussion in groups on the poem’s title and it’s relation to the content. Detection of contrasts. Expansion of the discussion in the whole class.
Comparative listening of the song performed by Grigoris Bithikotsis and Giorgos Moutsios; focus on the interpretation and rendition of the semicolon in the last pair of lines (“we lived our lives; erroneously”).
Introduction to the concepts “lyrical” and “epic”. Focus on the lyrical elements of the poem and the song (style, tempo, relation between the poetic and musical ideas). Detection of the lyrical and epic components in Mikis Theodorakis' songs.
Vocal expressive performance of the song (melancholic mood, joyful sorrow, awareness).
Analysis of the melody through the music score, focusing on the dotted notes.
Cross-curricular concepts: Contrast (in the pictures of the poem, between the lyrical and the epic, between the man's dreams during his youth and his adult life in visual art works).
Symbol.
Appears in Collections:The songs

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