Institution : Music Library of Greece "Lilian Voudouri" - Friends of Music Society
The Digitized Greek Music Archive is a thematic portal on Greek music which was originally created within the framework of the project/programme «Creation of a unit of documentation and promotion of Greek music», which was supported by the operational programme «Information Society» (3rd Community Support Frame/CSF, 2000-2006) and was then broadened and enriched by new collections and material thanks to the donation by the National Bank of Greece (2009-2011). Originally, within the frame of this project, the archives of the composers Mikis Theodorakis, Emilios Riadis, Georgios Poniridis, Frank Choisy, the archive of Nileus Kamarados-Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, a part of the Manuscript Collections and of Greek Songs that belong to the Library, as well as the Domna Samiou Archive which belongs to the Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association were digitized and are available on the Internet free of charge. On a later stage, the archive of Dimitrios Lialios, the collections of concert programmes and cultural events, Greek musical periodicals, books on Byzantine music and vinyl records were added. At the same time, concert programmes from the Mikis Theodorakis Archive were digitized and added to that collection, whereas the processing of the Greek songs collection was completed. This significant thematic documentation of Greek music includes more than 330,000 digitized documents of unique cultural value; they are the source for every researcher interested in Greek music. These items can be utilized for the interdisciplinary creation of cultural services, always subject to intellectual property law. Certain categories of documents are not available online; i.e. items related to public organizations, corporations and personal documents. All material that integrates in the above-mentioned categories is accessible only within the Library premises. The information is given in Greek and English and it is also accessible to people with special needs.
