Dimitris Pyrgiotis belongs to the Special Education Staff of the Department of Music Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from the National University of Athens and a postgraduate diploma from the interdepartmental programme ‘Music Culture and Communication’ of the Department of Music Studies and the Department of Communication and Media of the National University of Athens, having graduated from the Department of Music and Media Studies of the National University of Athens. He has received the degrees of Harmony, Counterpoint, Fugue from the Orpheion Conservatory of Athens with a personal scholarship from Con/nos Nonis and has studied Composition with Theo Antoniou. He has worked in Public Primary Education, and has taught music theory at IIEKs and Schools/education. She has produced writings on music theory and analysis for Fagotto Publications [indicative titles: ‘Thesaurus of Music Scales’, ‘Harmony in Practice’, ‘Music Theory and Practice with Scenarios’], has edited music publications and has translated the books ‘The Pleasure of Music’ by J. Machlis & K. Forney (Fagotto Publications) and ‘The History of Samos, 800-188 B.C.’ by G.J. Shipley (Special Edition of the Samos Public Library). His doctoral thesis concerned the functional reformulation of the generative theory of tonal analysis (Lerdahl and Jackendoff’s GTTM) so that the overall tonal movement is described by a string of operators and its extension to include ambiguous forms of tonal organization (tonal axes), as it is eventually applied to the diagrammatic analysis of the Jazz Standards and Beatles song bodies. His research interests focus on the musicological analysis of Greek traditional music and the anamixic use of historical chords, as well as the musicological investigation and grammatical analysis of pop musical expressions. The books (Fagotto Publications): Genres, Scales and Tonal Correlations’ and ‘Jazz Standards and Beatles: Diagrammatic Production Analysis of Popular Music’. Personal website with freely accessible educational material to assist the music theory training of prospective students: www.music-theory.gr