The score stands out among written sources for its contribution to recording and studying musical heritage. However, there are as yet insufficient data on the extent and the ways in which the digital score is used, especially in the field of Greek art music. The aim of the research is to investigate how Greek composers notate their compositions today. More specifically, to what extent they use the music manuscript as a means of notating a composition rather than the digital score, and what steps they follow from the conception of the initial idea to the production of the final “autograph”. The research methodology to be followed is mixed, collecting quantitative and qualitative data. For the quantitative dimension of the research, a questionnaire will be used as the instrument for measuring and collecting data. The questionnaire will consist mainly of closed-ended questions with Likert-type responses. The population addressed by the questionnaire is the members of the Greek Composers’ Union, the most representative body of Greek composers. For the qualitative dimension, targeted semi-structured interviews will be conducted with Greek composers and executives of publishing houses. These in-depth interviews will concern both basic, general topics of the research and possible findings emerging from the analysis of the questionnaires. The expected results include an outline of the landscape regarding the extent to which Greek composers use the digital score and the process followed when notating a composition. The resulting data are expected to contribute to updating research tools in historical and systematic musicology and to reforming curricula in composition.
Presentation. The paper by Tassos Kolydas and Nick Poulakis was presented at the 11th Interdepartmental Musicological Conference “Innovation and Tradition” (commemorating the 70th anniversary of the death of Nikos Skalkottas), under the auspices of the Hellenic Musicological Society, in the central building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Propylaea), on Thursday 21 November 2019, in the first session. The abstract, as printed in the programme, describes the design of the research; the results were published in the conference proceedings (2020).