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[ 0 => '{{For|argumentum ex silentio|Argument from silence}}', 1 => '{{Infobox musical artist', 2 => '| name = Ex Silentio', 3 => '| background = group_or_band', 4 => '| image = ', 5 => '| genre = Early music, medieval, baroque', 6 => '| instrument = ', 7 => '| origin = [[Thessaloniki]], [[Greece]]', 8 => '| years_active = since 2001', 9 => '| label = Carpe Diem Records', 10 => '| website = https://www.exsilentio.org/<br>https://exsilentio.bandcamp.com/', 11 => '| current_members = Dimitris Kountouras<br>Fanie Antonelou<br>Theodora Baka<br>Thimios Atzakas<br>Elektra Miliadou<br>Andreas Linos<br>Fani Vovoni<br>Flora Papadopoulou<br>Iason Ioannou<br>Markellos Chryssikopoulos<br>Dimitris Tigkas<br>Nikos Varelas', 12 => '}}', 13 => '', 14 => ''''''Ex Silentio''''' is the Greek early music ensemble, that has a wide repertoire from [[medieval music]] up to [[baroque music|baroque]]. ''Ex Silentio'' appears regularly in festivals and venues in many European countries and focuses on music from Southern Europe and the Mediterranean as well as on Orient-Occident music relations. Band's first album, ''Mneme'', received the Pizzicato's journal prize and was shortlisted for the [[International Classical Music Awards]] in 2016.<ref>{{cite web|title=Nomination list sorted by categories ICMA PDF format|url=http://www.icma-info.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Nomination-list-sorted-by-categories-ICMA-PDF-format.pdf}}</ref>', 15 => '', 16 => '== History ==', 17 => 'Ensemble was founded in 2001 and is specialized in early music and historical performance practice. The director is a flute-player Dimitris Kountouras. ''Ex Silentio'' has performed in musical theatre and contemporary dance productions of the Athens Festival and the Athens International Dance Month. They had also performed in festivals and chamber music concert series in Greece and around Europe, including the “Musica antica del Mediterraneo” in Bari, the “Marco Fodella” concert series in Milan, the [[Greek Institute of Berlin]], the “Musica Antiqua da Camera” in the Hague, the summer “Alte Musik in St. Ruprecht” in Vienna, the Μοzaik Project in Albania, the 1st Early Music Festival in Nicosia, at the Athens and Thessaloniki Concert Halls (Megaron), the Athens Festival, the Renaissance Festival in Rethymno, the Festival Guitar Plus, the Music Days of Rhodes etc. Ex Silentio has recorded for the record companies “Talanton” (works by [[Guillaume Du Fay]] and 15th-century secular music) and “Carpe Diem” Records (''Mneme'' - Medieval music from the Mediterranean, won the Pizzicato Magazine Supersonic prize, and was shortlisted for the International Classical Music Awards in the Early Music category in 2016). Ex Silentio is based in the Athens Conservatory. Members of the band teach at the international music community “Music Village” in Pelion.<ref name="booklet">{{cite web |title=Mneme Concert Booklet (Concert at the Venizeleio Conservatory of Chania) |url=https://www.culture.gov.gr/DocLib/EFACHANION_EXHIBIT_Memento_(a)mori_Ex_Silentio_Concert_EN-GR.pdf}}</ref>', 18 => '', 19 => '== Albums ==', 20 => '', 21 => '=== ''Mneme'' (2015)<ref name='jazzist'>{{cite web |last1=Алексеев |first1=Алексей |title=Ex Silentio «Mneme»/«Lethe» (Carpe Diem, 2015/2020) |url=https://jazzist.club/ex-silentio-mneme-lethe/ |website=Jazzist}}</ref> ===', 22 => 'The album features some cantiga songs by the famous Spanish king-composer [[Alfonso X]]. There are a couple of instrumental pieces like the popular dance ''Saltarello'' from the London / Tuscan manuscript (an important archive of medieval Italian music). There is also a composition from the XIV-XV centuries - from anonymous Sephardim, Arabs and Greeks.', 23 => '', 24 => 'Eastern folk opens up is especially important on the album. The brightest adornment of the music is the voice of Theodora Baka, an opera soloist who first collaborated with the ensemble on friendship, then officially joined it. She sings for the introductory ''Da que deus mamou'',<ref>{{cite web |title=Ex Silentio: Da que dues mamo, Tinos concert 1/7 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tscqOZrO7xc |website=YouTube}}</ref> composed eight centuries ago in the Pyrenees. In the closing Greek ballad, she begins almost with a whisper, makes the voice tremble, "walk", imitates Middle Eastern singing and practically screams to a bitter climax, using all the power of the vocal cords.<ref>{{cite web |title=Castle of Astropalia |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGddxOWSngg |website=YouTube}}</ref>', 25 => '', 26 => '=== ''Lethe'' (In the Courts of the Orient) (2020)<ref name='jazzist'/><ref>{{cite web |title=Lethe, Ex Silentio, Dimitris Kountouras, Fanie Antonelou, Theodora Baka |url=https://www.highresaudio.com/en/album/view/85mk9s/ex-silentio-dimitris-kountouras-fanie-antonelou-theodora-baka-lethe |website=highresaudio.com |publisher=Carpe Diem Records}}</ref> ===', 27 => '', 28 => 'Lethe ({{lang-gr|λήθη}}, Greek for "oblivion") was one of the five rivers of the underworld, Hades. Those who drank the water of the Lethe river would experience forgetfulness for ever. Lethe as opposite to Mneme ("memory") was thus the Greek Goddess of Oblivion. ', 29 => 'This album is an homage to musical traditions from distant places that remained in oblivion for ages long; album consists of the songs that were written by musicians in exile or in refuge, seeking the "Other" towards the Orient. The songs and the music reflect the musical life of the oriental courts of Thessalonica, Nicosia and Istanbul, from the Middle Ages to the 17th century.', 30 => '', 31 => '''El Rey de Francia''<ref>{{cite web |title=El rey de Francia |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXG4Uop08ms |website=YouTube}}</ref> is a Sephardic ballad in [[Ladino]] (also known as ''The King's Daughter's Dream'').', 32 => ' ', 33 => 'The ''Nisabur'' and the ''Bestenigar''<ref>{{cite web |title=Bestenigar pesrev |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQbA8PFGWZQ |website=YouTube}}</ref> [[pesrev]]s, from the collection of [[Dimitrie Cantemir]] (1673-1723) are presented here arranged by Thimios Atzakas, while ''Murabba''<ref>{{cite web |title=Murabba |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-QCFeLFoxM |website=YouTube}}</ref> is an old [[Ottoman empire|Ottoman]] song included in the collection of [[Ali Uflci]] (1610-1675). ''Mabur semai'' is a later example of instrumental Ottoman music from the 19th century. ', 34 => '', 35 => 'A great [[Troubadour]] [[Raimbaut de Vaqueiras]] spent the last years of his life in [[Thessalonica]], where he wrote some of his finest music, before dying in an assault together with his mentor and king [[Boniface I, Marquis of Montferrat]] in 1207. The short lived court of King Boniface in Thessalonica was the result of the fall of the [[Byzantine Empire]], in 1204, and the newly founded [[Latin Empire of Constantinople]]. The ''No M'agrad'' starts out as an elegy and ends in a dithyrambic tone, with promises of more conquests in the Middle East. It was probably written in the aftermath of the crusaders' heavy defeat in Adrianople on April 14, 1205, which would place it in June or July of that year. ''Planh'' is a typical mourning song from a Troubadour to his patron's memory.', 36 => '', 37 => 'The remote court of the [[Lusignan]] Kings in [[Nicosia]], [[Cyprus]], developed an exquisite late medieval musical culture equal only to Paris and Avignon. The poems, centered around courtly love, are expressing desire and sorrow deriving from love without response. The absence of response and the distance of the lovers are creating a paradoxal nearness between them, especially true to the ''J'ai mon cuer mis''.<ref>{{cite web |title=J'ai mon cuer mis |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9etXpKH8U_A |website=YouTube}}</ref>', 38 => ' ', 39 => 'The other chansons, including the three voice rondeau ''Quant me souvient'' and the two two voice rondeaux ''Douce Biauté'' and ''Se brief retour'' are secular and polyphonic art music connected to the court musicians [[Jean Handle]] (1380-1436) and [[Gilet Velut]] (fl. 1410-30) is reflecting the late Gothic style of the Orient.', 40 => '', 41 => '== Ensemle members ==', 42 => '=== Main ===', 43 => '* Fanie Antonelou, voice', 44 => '* Theodora Baka, voice', 45 => '* Thimios Atzakas, [[oud]]', 46 => '* Elektra Miliadou, [[fiddle]]', 47 => '* Andreas Linos, [[viol]]', 48 => '* Fani Vovoni, [[violin]]', 49 => '* Flora Papadopoulou, [[harp]]', 50 => '* Iason Ioannou, [[cello]]', 51 => '* Markellos Chryssikopoulos, [[harpsichord]] & [[organ]]', 52 => '* Dimitris Tigkas, [[violone]] & viol', 53 => '* Nikos Varelas, [[percussion]]', 54 => '* Dimitris Kountouras, direction & recorder/[[flute]]', 55 => '', 56 => '=== Guest artists ===', 57 => '* Tobias Schlierf, voice & [[hurdy-gurdy]]', 58 => '* Sokratis Sinopoulos, [[lyre]]', 59 => '​', 60 => '', 61 => '== Discography ==', 62 => '{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"', 63 => '|-', 64 => '! scope="col" style="width:20em;"| Title', 65 => '! scope="col" style="width:20em;"| Details', 66 => '! scope="col"| Notes', 67 => '|-', 68 => '! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Talanton'' (Nell' autunno di Bisanzio)', 69 => '|', 70 => '*Released: 2010', 71 => '|', 72 => '|-', 73 => '! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Mneme''', 74 => '|', 75 => '* Released: September 2015<ref>[https://exsilentio.bandcamp.com/album/mneme Mneme on Bandcamp]</ref>', 76 => '* Label: Carpe Diem Records', 77 => '* Format: Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album', 78 => '|', 79 => '{{Track listing', 80 => '| collapsed = yes', 81 => '| title1 = Da que deus mamou|length1=2:09', 82 => '| title2 = Rosa das Rosas |length2=9:22', 83 => '| title3 = Saltarello - Trotto|length3=4:32', 84 => '| title4 = Puncha Puncha|length4=5:35', 85 => '| title5 = Lammabada Yatathanna|length5=6:46', 86 => '| title6 = Zonaradikos|length6=2:15', 87 => '| title7 = De Poni Amor|length7=2:47', 88 => '| title8 = Ghaetta|length8=8:01', 89 => '| title9 = Aras pot hom|length9=7:21', 90 => '| title10 = Castle of Astropalia|length10=11:16', 91 => '}}', 92 => '|-', 93 => '! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Nefeli'' (Music of the Troubadours at the Kingdom of Thessalonica)', 94 => '|', 95 => '*Released: 2017', 96 => '|', 97 => '|-', 98 => '! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Lethe''', 99 => '|', 100 => '*Released: October 2020<ref>[https://exsilentio.bandcamp.com/album/lethe Lethe on Bandcamp]</ref>', 101 => '*Label: Carpe Diem Records', 102 => '*Format: Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album', 103 => '|', 104 => '{{Track listing', 105 => '| collapsed = yes', 106 => '| title1 = El Rey de Francia (Sephardic traditional)|length1=5:36', 107 => '| title2 = Nisabur Pesrev ([[Dimitrie Cantemir]] (1673-1723))|length2=5:03', 108 => '| title3 = Murabba ([[Ali Ufki]] (1610-1675))|length3=6:01', 109 => '| title4 = Bestenigar Pesrev (Dimitrie Cantemir)|length4=7:00', 110 => '| title5 = Mahur Semai ([[Nikolaki Kemenceci]] (19th c.))|length5=6:53', 111 => '| title6 = No M'agrad ([[Raimbaut de Vaqueiras]] (?-1207))|length6=9:12', 112 => '| title7 = Planh (improvisation)|length7=1:36', 113 => '| title8 = Se brief retour (Codex Ms Torino, J.II.9)|length8=5:07', 114 => '| title9 = Quant me souvient (Codex Ms Torino, J.II.9)|length9=3:20', 115 => '| title10 = Douce Biauté (Codex Ms Torino, J.II.9)|length10=3:48', 116 => '| title11 = J'ai mon cuer mis (Codex Ms Torino, J.II.9)|length11=6:04', 117 => '}}', 118 => '|-', 119 => '|}', 120 => '', 121 => '== References ==', 122 => '{{reflist}}', 123 => '', 124 => '== External links ==', 125 => '* [https://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/interviews/arts-in-greece/6290-arts-in-greece-dimitris-kountouras Arts in Greece | Dimitris Kountouras on early music in Greece]', 126 => '* [https://www.pizzicato.lu/sinnlichkeit-und-lebensfreude/ About Mneme in Pizzicato journal]', 127 => '* [https://www.highresaudio.com/en/album/view/85mk9s/ex-silentio-dimitris-kountouras-fanie-antonelou-theodora-baka-lethe Info about the latest album, ''Lethe'', including its booklet with lyrics and photos]', 128 => '', 129 => '[[Category:Early music]]', 130 => '[[Category:Medieval music]]', 131 => '[[Category:Instrumental early music groups]]', 132 => '[[Category:Renaissance music]]', 133 => '[[Category:Baroque music]]' ]