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Greek traditional music ( Greek: παραδοσιακή μουσική, "traditional music"; also δημοτικά τραγούδια, "folk songs") includes a variety of Greek styles played by ethnic Greeks in Greece, Cyprus, Australia, the United States and other parts of Europe. Apart from the common music found generally in Greece, each ...
The music of Greece is as diverse and celebrated as its history.Greek music separates into two parts: Greek traditional music and Byzantine music.These compositions have existed for millennia: they originated in the Byzantine period and Greek antiquity; there is a continuous development which appears in the language, the rhythm, the structure and the melody. [1]
Thrace. v. t. e. The music of Crete ( Greek: Κρητική μουσική ), also called kritika ( Greek: κρητικά ), refers to traditional forms of Greek folk music prevalent on the island of Crete in Greece. Cretan traditional music includes instrumental music (generally also involving singing), a capella songs known as the rizitika ...
Laïko or laïkó ( Greek: λαϊκό [τραγούδι], romanized : laïkó [tragoúdi], pronounced [lai̯ˈko traˈɣuði]; lit. " [song] of the people", "popular [song]"; pl. λαϊκά [τραγούδια], laïká [tragoúdia]) is a Greek music genre composed in Greek language in accordance with the tradition of the Greek people. Also ...
My Number One. " My Number One " is a song recorded by Greek-Swedish singer Helena Paparizou with music composed by Manolis Psaltakis [a] and Christos Dantis, lyrics written by Dantis and Natalia Germanou, and produced by Dantis. It represented Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, held in Kyiv, resulting in the country's only ever ...
Zorba's Dance. "Zorba's Dance" ( Greek: Ο Χορός Του Ζορμπά) is an instrumental by Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis. [ 1] The music is part of the soundtrack for the 1964 film Zorba the Greek, [ 2] and used in the film to accompany the dance known as sirtaki. It is now commonly played and danced to in Greek tavernas.
Pentozali music is instrumental: the main tune is played either on the violin or on the pear-shaped, bowed Cretan Lyra, to the accompaniment of a Laouto, played not in a melodic but in a more percussive or rhythmic fashion. It is the soloist who usually directs the flow of the dance: he improvises to signal the first dancer to improvise too ...
Rock music in Greece first peaked in the early seventies, while Greece was still ruled by a military dictatorship. Bands included Socrates Drank The Conium (anglophone progressive rock), Nostradamos, Exadahtylos (political/satirical lyrics), Pelóma Bokioú (Santana-like Latin rock with Greek lyrics), Poll (folk with vocal harmonies, Greek lyrics), Axis (Another Paris based Greek Band).