The musical legacy of Greece is as diverse as its history. Cypriot music has certain similarities to traditional Greek music, and their modern popular music scenes remain well-integrated. From the 1500s, a detail from Piero di Cosimos version of Perseus rescuing Andromeda. ... Laïkó was the pop music of Greece the 1950s and 1960s. ... Neo Kyma (Greek Νέο Κύμα - New Wave) was a movement in Greek music that started in the mid-1960s and lasted about a decade. ... Rebetiko, plural rebetika, (Greek ρεμπέτικο and ρεμπέτικα respectively) is the name for a type of urban Greek music. ... The vast majority of the inhabitants of the United States are immigrants or descendents of immigrants. ... Greek folk music includes a variety of styles played by ethnic Greeks in Greece, Cyprus, the United States and elsewhere. ... Greek hip hop refers to hip hop music originating in Greece, either in Greek or English. ... Rock and roll is an African American genre of music that spread around the world in the 1950s and 60s, entering Greece in the middle of the latter decade. ... History (Timeline and Samples) Genres: Classical music -Folk - Hip hop - Jazz - Rock Regional styles Aegean Islands - Arcadia - Argos - Athens - Crete - Cyclades - Dodecanese Islands - Epirus - Ionian Islands - Lesbos - Macedonia - Peloponnesos - Thessaloniki - Thessaly - Thrace - Cyprus Crete is an island that is a SMALL part of Greece. ... In Epirus of northwest Greece,folk songs are mostly pentatonic and polyphonic,sung by both male and female singers. ... History (Timeline and Samples) Genres: Classical music -Folk - Hip hop - Jazz - Rock Regional styles Aegean Islands - Arcadia - Argos - Athens - Crete - Cyclades - Dodecanese Islands - Epirus - Ionian Islands - Lesbos - Macedonia - Peloponnesos - Thessaloniki - Thessaly - Thrace - Cyprus Thrace is a historical region of Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. ... This article covers the Greek civilization. ... History (Timeline and Samples) Genres: Classical music -Folk - Hip hop - Jazz - Rock Regional styles Aegean Islands - Arcadia - Argos - Athens - Crete - Cyclades - Dodecanese Islands - Epirus - Ionian Islands - Lesbos - Macedonia - Peloponnesos - Thessaloniki - Thessaly - Thrace - Cyprus The music of Cyprus includes a variety of classical, folk and popular genres. ... For other uses, see Music (disambiguation). ...

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Greek written history extends far back into Ancient Greece, and was a major part of ancient Greek theater. Later, influences from the Roman Empire, Eastern Europe and the Byzantine Empire changed Greek music. In the 19th century, opera composers, like Nikolaos Mantzaros (1795 - 1872), Spyridon Xyndas (1812 - 1896) and Spyros Samaras (1861 - 1917) and symphonists, like Dimitris Lialios and Dionysios Rodotheatos revitalized Greek art music. However, the diverse history of art music in Greece, which extents from the Cretan Rennaisance and reaches modern times, exceeds the aims of the present contribution, which will be limited to the presentation of the musical form that the last few decades became synonymous to 'Greek music'. That is the 'Greek song' or, better, the 'song in Greek verse'. The term ancient Greece refers to the periods of Greek history in Classical Antiquity, lasting ca. ... Greek theatre or Greek Drama came into its own between 600 and 200 BC in the ancient city of Athens. ... For other uses, see Roman Empire (disambiguation). ... Statistical regions of Europe as delineated by the United Nations (UN definition of Eastern Europe marked red):  Northern Europe  Western Europe  Eastern Europe  Southern Europe Pre-1989 division between the West (grey) and Eastern Bloc (orange) superimposed on current borders: Russia (dark orange), other countries formerly part of the USSR... Byzantine redirects here. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Opera (disambiguation). ... Nikolaos Halikiopoulos Mantzaros (Greek: or Niccolo Calichiopulo Manzaro, (26 October 1795 - 12 April 1872) was a Greek composer born in Corfu and the major representative of the so called Ionian Islands school of music. ... 1795 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1872 (MDCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Spyridon Xyndas Spyridon Xyndas (Σπυρίδων Ξύνδας) (1812-1896) was a Greek composer and guitarist; his last name has also been transliterated as Xinta, Xinda, Xindas, and Xyntas. His opera O ypopsifios vouleftis (The Parliamentary Candidate) is said to have been the first opera written on a Greek libretto. ... For the overture by Tchaikovsky, see 1812 Overture; For the wars, see War of 1812 (USA - United Kingdom) or Patriotic War of 1812 (France - Russia) For the Siberia Airlines plane crashed over the Black Sea on October 4, 2001, see Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 1812 was a leap year starting... Year 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar). ... Spyros Samaras (1861-1917) was a Greek composer. ... Year 1861 (MDCCCLXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar (see: 1917 Julian calendar). ...

Ancient Greece

Main article: Music of ancient Greece

In ancient Greece, mixed-gender choruses performed for entertainment, celebration and spiritual reasons. Instruments included the double-reed aulos and the plucked string instrument, the lyre, especially the special kind called a kithara. From the 1500s, a detail from Piero di Cosimos version of Perseus rescuing Andromeda. ... A nude youth plays the aulos at a banquet: Attic red-figure cup by the Euaion Painter, ca. ... A string instrument (or stringed instrument) is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. ... “Lyres” redirects here. ... The kithara was an ancient Greek musical instrument. ...

Music was an important part of education in ancient Greece, and boys were taught music starting at age six. Greek musical literacy created a flowering of development; Greek music theory included the Greek musical modes, eventually became the basis for Western religious music and classical music. Music theory is a field of study that investigates the nature or mechanics of music. ... This article is about modes as used in music. ... Religious music (also sacred music) is music performed or composed for religious use or through religious influence. ... Classical music is a broad, somewhat imprecise term, referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, European art, ecclesiastical and concert music, encompassing a broad period from roughly 1000 to the present day. ...

Greece in the Roman Empire

Due to Rome's reverence for Greek culture, Roman music continued to use the Greek notational system.^{[citation needed]}

Byzantium

Main article: Byzantine music

The tradition of eastern liturgical chant, encompassing the Greek-speaking world, developed in the Byzantine Empire from the establishment of its capital, Constantinople, in 330 until its fall in 1453. It is undeniably of composite origin, drawing on the artistic and technical productions of the classical Greek age, on Jewish music, and inspired by the monophonic vocal music that evolved in the early Greek Christian cities of Alexandria, Antioch and Ephesus. Byzantine music is the music of the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire) and by extension the music of its culture(s) as they continued in the Orthodox Christian parts of the population after the fall of the empire to the rule of the Ottoman Empire. ... Byzantine redirects here. ... This article is about the city before the Fall of Constantinople (1453). ... Combatants  Byzantine Empire Ottoman Sultanate Commanders Constantine XI †, Loukas Notaras, Giovanni Giustiniani †[1] Mehmed II, ZaÄŸanos Pasha Strength 80,000[2] 80,000[1]-200,000[1][3] Casualties 4,000 dead[4] [5][6] unknown The Fall of Constantinople refers to the capture of the Byzantine Empires... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... In music, the word texture is often used in a rather vague way in reference to the overall sound of a piece of music. ... This article is about the city in Egypt. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Antakya. ... For the town in the southern United States, see Ephesus, Georgia. ...

Greece during the Ottoman Empire(Rum Music)

By the beginning of the 20th century, music-cafés were popular in Constantinople and Smyrna, primarily owned by Greeks, alongside Jews and Armenians.^{[citations needed]} The bands were led by a female vocalist, typically, and included a violin and a sandoúri. The improvised songs typically exclaimed aman aman, which led to the name amanédhes or café-aman. Musicians of this period included Marika Papagika, Agapios Tomboulis, Rosa Eskenazi and Rita Abatzi. This period also brought in the Rempetika movement, which featured in Smyrna (Izmir), and had local Smyrnaic, Byzantine, and Ottoman influences. See also This article is about the city before the Fall of Constantinople (1453). ... Smyrna (Greek: Σμύρνη) is an ancient city (today Ä°zmir in Turkey) that was founded by ancient Greeks at a central and strategic point on the Aegean coast of Anatolia. ... For the Anne Rice novel, see Violin (novel). ... The santoor is a trapezoid-shaped hammered dulcimer often made of walnut, with seventy strings. ... Improvisation is the practice of acting and reacting, of making and creating, in the moment and in response to the stimulus of ones immediate environment. ... One of the first generation of Greek women singers to be heard on sound recordings, Marika Papagika was born on the island of Kos on September 1, 1890. ... Rita Abatzi (Greek: Ρίτα Αμπατζή) (born 1914 in Smyrna, Asia Minor, now Ä°zmir, Turkey - died June 17, 1969 in Egaleo (Athens), Greece) was a Greek rebetiko musician who began her career in the first part of the 1930s. ...

• Kanto (music)

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Folk music

Main article: Greek folk music

Greek folk traditions are said to derive from the music played by ancient Greeks. There are said to be two musical movements in Greek folk music: akritic and klephtic. Akritic music comes from the 9th century akrites, or border guards of the Byzantine Empire. Following the end of the Byzantine period, klephtic music arose before the Greek Revolution, developed among the kleftes, warriors who fought against the Ottoman Empire. Klephtic music is monophonic and uses no harmonic accompaniment. Greek folk music includes a variety of styles played by ethnic Greeks in Greece, Cyprus, the United States and elsewhere. ... As a means of recording the passage of time the 9th century was the century that lasted from 801 to 900. ... Combatants Greek guerilla forces Ottoman Empire forces Commanders Kolokotronis Vrionis, Ibrahim Pasha Strength Casualties {{{notes}}} The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution, was a successful war waged by the Greeks between 1821 and 1827 to win independence from the Ottoman Empire. ... Ottoman redirects here. ... In music, the word texture is often used in a rather vague way in reference to the overall sound of a piece of music. ... Harmony is the use and study of pitch simultaneity, and therefore chords, actual or implied, in music. ...

Traditional dimotiká are accompanied by clarinets, guitars, tambourines and violins, and include dance music forms like syrtó, kalamatianó, tsámiko and hasaposérviko,as well as vocal music like kléftiko. Many of the earliest recordings were done by Arvanites like Yiorgia Mittaki and Yiorgios Papasidheris. Instrumentalists include clarinet virtuosos like Tasos Halkias, Yiorgos Yevyelis and Yiannis Vassilopoulos, as well as oud and fiddle players like Nikos Saragoudas and Yiorgos Koros. Two soprano clarinets: a Bâ™­ clarinet (left, with capped mouthpiece) and an A clarinet (right, with no mouthpiece). ... For other uses, see Guitar (disambiguation). ... “Buben” redirects here. ... For the Anne Rice novel, see Violin (novel). ... Arvanites (Αρbε̰ρόρ, Arbërór or Σ̈κ̇ιπτάρ, Shqiptár in Arvanitic, Arvanitë in Albanian, Αρβανίτες, Arvanítes in Greek) are the descendants of settlers of Albanian ancestry from central Albania that settled in various Greek lands during the Middle Ages, principally between the 13th century and 15th century. ...

Greek folk music is found all throughout Greece, as well as among communities in countries like the United States, Canada and Australia. The island of Cyprus and several regions of Turkey are home to long-standing communities of ethnic Greeks with their own unique styles of music.

Ikariotiko

Ikariotikos is a traditional dance and accompanying song originating in the Greek island of Ikaria. At first it was a very slow dance, but today Ikariotikos is a very quick dance. Some specialists say that the traditional Ikariotikos was slow and the quick "version" of it is in fact Ballos. Music and dancing are major forms of entertainment on Ikaria, and figure prominently in the lives of Ikarians. Throughout the year Ikarians host baptisms, weddings, parties and religious festivals where one can listen and dance to live traditional Ikarian Music. This article is about Icaria, a Greek island. ... The Ballos Sirtos (Greek: Μπάλος) is one of the best known island dances in Greece. ... For other uses, see Music (disambiguation). ... A contemporary dancer rehearsing in a dance studio Dance generally refers to human movement either used as a form of expression or presented in a social, spiritual or performance setting. ... This article is about Icaria, a Greek island. ...

Cretan Music

Main article: Music of Crete

Crete is an island that is a part of Greece. The lýra is the dominant folk instrument on the island; it is a three-stringed fiddle similar to the Pontiako kemençe. It is often accompanied by the Cretian lute (laoúto), which is similar to both an oud and a mandolin. Nikos Xylouris, Antonis Xylouris (or Psarantonis), Thanassis Skordalos and Kostas Moundakis are the most renowned player of the lýra. History (Timeline and Samples) Genres: Classical music -Folk - Hip hop - Jazz - Rock Regional styles Aegean Islands - Arcadia - Argos - Athens - Crete - Cyclades - Dodecanese Islands - Epirus - Ionian Islands - Lesbos - Macedonia - Peloponnesos - Thessaloniki - Thessaly - Thrace - Cyprus Crete is an island that is a SMALL part of Greece. ... For other uses, see Crete (disambiguation). ... “Lyres” redirects here. ... “Fiddler” redirects here. ... We dont have an article called Kemençe Start this article Search for Kemençe in. ... A renaissance-era lute. ... Front and rear views of an oud. ... This article is about the musical instrument. ... Nikos Xylouris (Greek Νίκος Ξυλούρης) was a Greek composer and singer from Crete. ... Thanasis Skordalos was born in December 1920 at the village Spili in Rethimnon Crete. ... Kostas Mountakis was born in February 1926 at the village Alfa in Milopotamos, Rethimnon. ...

Tabachaniotika

The "tabachaniotika" (sing., tabachaniotiko) songs are a Cretan urban musical repertory which belongs to the wide family of musics, like the rebetika and music of the Café-aman, that merge Greek and Eastern music elements. This genre represents an outcome of the Cretan-Minor Asia's Greek cultural syncretism in East Meditteranean Sea. It developed mainly after the immigration of Smyrna's refugees in 1922, as did the more widespread rebetika. Crete, sometimes spelled Krete (Greek Κρήτη / Kriti) is the largest of the Greek islands and the fifth largest in the Mediterranean Sea. ... Cities with at least a million inhabitants in 2006 An urban area is an area with an increased density of human-created structures in comparison to the areas surrounding it. ... Smyrna (Greek: Σμύρνη) is an ancient city (today Ä°zmir in Turkey) that was founded by ancient Greeks at a central and strategic point on the Aegean coast of Anatolia. ...

Various conjectures are advanced to explain the meaning and origin of the term "tabachaniotika". Kostas Papadakis believes that it comes from tabakaniotikes, which may mean places where hashish was smoked and music performed, as in the tekédes of Piraeus. But a quarter named Tabahana existed in Smyrna and the name had a Turkish root (Trk., tabak: tanner; tabakhane: tannery). In Chaniá too, there was a quarter with the same name, where refugees from Smyrna lived after the 1922 diaspora. Tabachaniotiko was also the name of a song of the amané genre, which was popular in Smyrna in the period before 1922, together with some other songs called Minoré, Bournovalio, Galata, and Tzivaeri (Kounadis 1993: 23). Compare the Greek-Turkish ballos performed by a Greek ensemble in New York City in 1928, included in the article by Karl Signell.

This detail might be critical for the history of Cretan tabachaniotika, since Cretans frequently had contacts with the people and music of Smyrna during the nineteenth century. Cretan musicians believe that the further development of Cretan tabachaniotika took place mainly after 1922, as a consequence of the refugees' resettlement. The genre was popular until the 1950s.

• Music

Dromoi, modal types designated by Turkish names, like rasti, houzam, hijaz, ousak, niaventi, sabak, etc.

Instrumental introduction before the song (taximi, pl., taximia), where the player explores the dromo

Tsifteteli rhythm, as in the Turkish "belly dance" music example heard in Signell's article. Raqs Sharqi dancer Chryssanthi Sahar Scharf, Heidelberg. ...

Musical instruments like bouzouki, boulgarí (the Cretan version of the Turkish baglama, similar to the earliest forms of the bouzouki), and baglamás For bouzoukia, see nightclubs in Greece. ... The baÄŸlama is a stringed musical instrument shared by various cultures in the Eastern Mediterranean. ... For bouzoukia, see nightclubs in Greece. ...

• Poetic text

The rebetika and "tabachaniotika" often share the political verse, that is, fifteen syllable lines divided into two hemistichs (8+7), generally realized as couplets. In Crete such couplets are called mandinades, as are extemporary texts sung to the music of dances, mainly the syrtós, and kondilyés. Rebetiko is a kind of Greek music, popular among Greek people around the world. ...

They focus mainly on the themes of existential grief and lost love, also common to the rebetika. Songs making fun of Turks, narrative songs, and other songs in dialogue form also belong to this repertory.

Unlike the rebetika, the "tabachaniotika" did not typify the underground and was only sung, not danced, according to Nikolaos Sarimanolis, the last living performer of this repertory in Chaniá. Only a few musicians played the "tabachaniotika", the most famous being the boulgarí player Stelios Phoustalierakis "Phoustalieris" (1911-1992) from Rethymnon. Phoustalieris bought his first boulgarí in 1924. In 1979, he said that in Rethymnon the boulgarí was widespread in the 1920s: in every tavern one could find a boulgarí, and people played and sang love songs. He said the boulgarí was then also the main accompanying instrument of the lyra, together with the mandola. The laouto began spreading in Rethymnon not before the 1930s. Phoustalieris played for years as accompanist of the lyrist Antonis Kareklás in feasts and weddings and performed any kind of repertory (syrtós, pendozalia, pidichtá kastriná, taximia, kathistiká--lit., "sitting-down music," i.e., music for listening, not for dancing--and even rebetika). Later, he began playing the boulgarí, also as a melodic instrument, with the accompaniment of guitar or mandolin. He played also in a group with musicians refugees from Asia Minor, who played the outi and sandouri. Phoustalieris composed also many songs and recorded them in Rethymnon. In the period 1933-1937 he lived in Piraeus and played together with famous rebetes, like Markos Vamvarakis. He may be considered a musician who merged the musics of Crete, Asia Minor, and Piraeus (see Liavas 1988). Notwithstanding the dearth of performers, "tabachaniotika" songs were widespread and could also be performed at domestic gatherings, according to bouzouki player Nikolaos Sarimanolis (born in Nea Ephesos(Kuşadası), Asia Minor, in 1919). Sarimanolis also took part in the group founded by Papadakis in Chaniá in 1945 (see Papadakis interview). Rebetiko is a kind of Greek music, popular among Greek people around the world. ... For bouzoukia, see nightclubs in Greece. ... KuÅŸadası is a town on the Aegean coast of Turkey, near the ancient city of Ephesus, 90 km south of Ä°zmir and a short distance across from the island of Samos. ... Anatolia (Greek: ανατολη anatole, rising of the sun or East; compare Orient and Levant, by popular etymology Turkish Anadolu to ana mother and dolu filled), also called by the Latin name of Asia Minor, is a region of Southwest Asia which corresponds today to the Asian portion of Turkey. ...

Popular music

Being largely unaffected by the developments of the European Renaissance, due to the almost four centuries of Ottoman occupation, the first liberated Greeks were anxious to catch up with the rest of Europe. The flourishing Greek culture of the Ionian islands, which were under the Italian rule and influence, was in sharp contrast to the Ottoman cultural poverty. It was through these islands that all the major advances of the European music were introduced to mainland Greeks. The songs of the islands known as Eptanissian, became the forerunners of the Greek modern song, influencing its development to a considerable degree. For almost a century all later musical attempts had to borrow elements from the Eptanissian music. This article is about the European Renaissance of the 14th-17th centuries. ...

Early popular song

The most successful songs during the period 1870-1930 were the so-called Athenian songs, the serenades and the songs performed on the Athenian stage in revues and operettas that dominated the Athenian theatres. The serenades were operating by definition in an autonomous way, whereas the "Athenian" songs, despite their original connection to a total dramatic work, also achieved to become hits as independent songs. Italian opera had a great influence on the musical aesthetics of the Modern Greeks.

After 1930, wavering among American and European musical influences as well as the Greek musical tradition, the Greek composers begin to

Laïka

Main article: Laïka

Laïka is a Greek music-culture. The word "Laika" means that it is the music of the people in Greek, though "Laika" right now is the most popular kind of music for Greece. This article is about the Greek music-culture. ...

Artists

• Anna Vissi
• Antonis Remos
• Chryspa
• Giorgos Mazonakis
• George Dalaras*Giorgos Dalaras
• Keti Garbi
• Despina Vandi
• Eleni Vitali
• Eleftheria Arvanitaki
• Glykeria
• Elena Paparizou
• Apostolia Zoi
• Balantis
• Basia Riga
• Dimitris Kokkotas
• Eirini Merkouri
• Dimtris Kontogiannis
• Elli Kokkinou
• Evridiki
• Giannis Ploutarxos
• Giorgos Lembesis
• Giorgos Perris
• Giorgos Tsalikis
• Girogos Yiannias
• Hristina Anagnostopoulou
• Haris Alexiou
• Kalomira
• Kelly Kelekidou
• Kostandinos Pantzis
• Labis Lieveratos
• Marianda Pieridi
• Marina Solonos
• Marinella
• Maro Lytra
• Nancy Alexiadi
• Natalia Doussopoulos
• Nino
• Nikos Portokaloglou
• Nikos Vertis
• Notis Xristodoulou
• Paschalis Terzis
• Peggy Zina
• Rotting Christ
• Sabrina
• Sarbel
• Stella Georgiadou
• Stratos Dionisiou
• Thanos Petrelis
• Triandafilos
• Villos tis moulas
• Xristos Dantis
• Yiorgos Xristou
• Zig Zag

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Similarities

Laika is similar to the Serbian Turbo-folk, they have the same sort of Etno-Ambient Underground Dance-melodies, but the Laika differs from turbo-folk, since Laika originates from Rebetika. Not to be confused with Republika Srpska. ... Turbo-folk is a music genre originating in Serbia in the early 1990s. ... Ambient music refers to a kind of music that envelops the listener without drawing attention to itself [1] // The term ambient music was first coined by Brian Eno in the mid-1970s to refer to music that can be either actively listened to with attention or as easily ignored, depending... Underground music is music which has developed a cult following, independent of commercial success. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Rebetiko is a kind of Greek music, popular among Greek people around the world. ...

Rembétika

Further information: Rebetiko

Rebétiko evolved from traditions of the urban poor. Refugees and drug-users, criminals and the itinerant, the earliest rembétika musicians were scorned by mainstream society. They sang heartrending tales of drug abuse, prison and violence, usually accompanied by the bouzouki, a sort of lute derived from the Byzantine tambourás and related to the Turkish saz. Rebetiko, plural rebetika, (Greek ρεμπέτικο and ρεμπέτικα respectively) is the name for a type of urban Greek music. ... For bouzoukia, see nightclubs in Greece. ... A renaissance-era lute. ... Byzantine music is the music of the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire) and by extension the music of its culture(s) as they continued in the Orthodox Christian parts of the population after the fall of the empire to the rule of the Ottoman Empire. ... This article is about the music instrument. ...

In 1923, many ethnic Greeks from Asia Minor fled to Greece as a result of the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922). They settled in poor neighborhoods in Pireás, Thessaloniki and Athens. Many of these immigrants were highly educated, and included songwriter Vangelis Papazoglou and Panayiotis Toundas, composer and leader of Odeon Records' Greek subsidiary. Year 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Anatolia (Greek: ανατολη anatole, rising of the sun or East; compare Orient and Levant, by popular etymology Turkish Anadolu to ana mother and dolu filled), also called by the Latin name of Asia Minor, is a region of Southwest Asia which corresponds today to the Asian portion of Turkey. ... Combatants Greece Turkish Revolutionaries Commanders Gen Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Gen Anastasios Papoulas, Gen Georgios Hatzianestis Ali Fethi Okyar, Ä°smet Ä°nönü, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Fevzi Çakmak Strength 200,000 men 120,000 men (plus village protectors) Casualties 23,500 dead; 20,820 captured 20,540 dead; 10,000 wounded The... Thessaloniki or Salonica (Greek: ) is Greeces second-largest city and the capital of Macedonia, the largest Region of Greece. ... This article is about the capital of Greece. ... A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ... Odeon Records was a record label founded by Max Strauss and Heinrich Zunz in Berlin, Germany. ...

However, one Turkish tradition that came with the Greek migrants was the tekés, or hashish dens. Groups of men would sit in a circle and smoke hashish from a hookah, and improvised music of various kinds was common. With the coming of the Metaxas dictatorship, rembétika was repressed due to the uncompromising lyrics. Hashish dens and bouzoúkis were banned. Many songs from this period were composed in prison, where musicians made instruments out of scavenged equipment. Hashish Hashish (from Arabic: , lit. ... Egyptian hookah Hookah (Hindi: , Urdu: hukka) or shisha (Arabic: ‎, Hebrew: נרגילה) or (Turkish:nargile) is a single or multi-stemmed (often glass-based) water pipe device for smoking. ... Ioannis Metaxas Ioannis Metaxas (Greek Ιωάννης Μεταξάς, April 12, 1871 - January 29, 1941) was a Greek General and the Prime Minister of Greece from 1936 until his death. ...

After World War 2, rembétika had become a calmer form of music, Out of this music scene came two of the earliest legends of Greek Oriental music, like the quartet of Markos Vamvakaris, Artemis, Stratos Payioumtzis, and Batis. Vamvakaris became perhaps the first star of rembétika after beginning a solo career. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Yiorgos Batis (Greek: Γιώργος Μπάτης, also Giorgos Batis) (1885 in Methana - March 10, 1967) was one of the first and infulential in rebetiko music and was known in Piraeus. ...

The scene was soon popularized further by stars like Vassilis Tsitsanis. His "Synefiazmeni Kyriaki" became an anthem for the oppressed Greeks after it was composed in 1943, though it wasn't recorded until 1948. He was followed by female singers like Marika Ninou, Ioanna Yiorgakopoulou and Sotiria Bellou. In 1953, Manolis Khiotis added a fourth pair of strings to the bouzoúki, which allowed it be tuned tonally and set the stage for the electrification of rembétika. Vassilis Tsitsanis (Βασίλης Τσιτσάνης January 18, 1915 - January 18, 1984) was a Greek singer and songwriter. ... Marika Ninou (Greek: Μαρίκα Νίνου) was a Greek rembetiko and laiko singer, born Evangelia Nikolaidou (Greek: Ευαγγελία Νικολαΐδου) in the Caucasus, 1918. ... Soteria Belou (Greek: ; 1921–1997) was a famous Greek singer and performer of the traditional Greek rebetiko type of music [1]. // Sotiria Bellou was born in Drosia, the oldest of 5 siblings of a wealthy family. ...

Rembétika was revived during the 1967-1974 coup, which banned the music. Ironically, the banning meant that the dispossessed of Greece were attracted to the music and its messages of subversion. Revival groups included Opisthodhromiki Kompania, Rembetiki Kompania, Agathonas Iakovidhis and Ta Pedhia apo tin Patra.

Éntekhno

Drawing on rembétika's Westernization with Tsitsanis, éntekhno arose in the late 1950s. Éntekhno is orchestral music with elements of Greek folk rhythm and melody. Mikis Theodorakis and Manos Hadjidakis were the most popular early performers; however there are also other significant Greek songwriters like Stavros Kouioumtzis and Manos Loizos. By the 1960s, innovative albums made éntekhno mainstream, and also led to its appropriation by the film industry for use in soundtracks, often watering-down the music in the process. The music theme which appears in the Hollywood 1964 movie Zorba the Greek remains the most well-known Greek song abroad. The 1950s decade refers to the years 1950 to 1959 inclusive. ... Mikis Theodorakis (Greek: Μίκης Θεοδωράκης) (b. ... Manos Hadjidakis (Μάνος Χατζιδάκις) (October 23, 1925–June 15, 1994) was a Greek music composer. ... Manos Loïzos (Μάνος Λοΐζος, also transliterated as Loizos and Loisos, October 22, 1937 in Alexandria, Egypt – September 17, 1982 in Moscow, Soviet Union) was one of the most important Greek music composers, yet nearly unknown outside Greece. ... This article is about motion pictures. ... In film formats, the soundtrack is the physical area of the film which records the synchronized sound. ... ... Zorba the Greek is a 1964 movie by Michael Cacoyannis, originally titled Alexis Zorbas, based on the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis. ...

Laïkó

Further information: Laïkó

Laïkó was the pop music of the 50s and 60s. Laïkó is similar to Turkish Fantezi music. The influence of oriental music on laïkó can be most strongly seen in 1960s indoyíftika, Indian filmi with Greek lyrics. Manolis Angelopoulos was the most popular indoyíftika performer, while pure laïkó was dominated by superstar Stelios Kazantzidis and Stratos Dionisiou. Among the most significant songwriters of this category can be named Akis Panou, George Zambetas, Apostolos Kaldaras, Giorgos Mitsakis Kostas Papaioannou and many others. Laïkó was the pop music of Greece the 1950s and 1960s. ... The 1950s decade refers to the years 1950 to 1959 inclusive. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969. ... Timeline and Samples Genres Classical (Carnatic and Hindustani) - Folk - Rock - Pop - Hip hop Awards Bollywood Music Awards - Punjabi Music Awards Charts Festivals Sangeet Natak Akademi – Thyagaraja Aradhana – Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana Media Sruti, The Music Magazine National anthem Jana Gana Mana, also national song Vande Mataram Music of the states Andaman... Stelios Kazantzidis (August 29, 1931–September 14, 2001) (Greek: Στέλιος Καζαντζίδης) was a prominent Greek singer. ...

Tsifteteli

Further information: Tsifteteli

Tsifteteli is a type of music that was bought over by refugees from Asia Minor in the 1920s. Basically, it is Greek belly dance music. The Arabic and Turkish influence on this type of music is very clear, and adds to the cultural similarities Greeks have with the Middle East. This is an extremely popular form of Modern Greek music, and played almost everywhere in Greece. Some popular modern popular artists who include tsifteteli in their music are Katy Garbi, Anna Vissi, Despina Vandi, Eleni Karousaki, Yiorgos Mazonakis, and many others. Ciftetelli (τσιφτετέλι, Ciftetelli ) is a Turkish/ Greek dance. ... This article is about two nested areas of Turkey, a plateau region within a peninsula. ... Raqs Sharqi dancer Chryssanthi Sahar Scharf, Heidelberg. ... Arabic music includes several genres and styles of music ranging from Arab classical to Arabic pop music and from secular to sacred music. ... Genres: Alternative - Classical - Dance - Folk - Hip hop - Jazz - Military - Ottoman - Opera - Pop - Religious - Rock Awards Kral MV, MÜ-YAP, MGD Charts Billboard Charts Music Festivals Istanbul International Music Festival, Istanbul International Jazz Festival, Izmir European Jazz Festival, Aspendos International Opera and Ballet Festival Media Rolling Stone (Türkiye), MTV (T... A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ... Keti Garbi aka Kaiti Garbi or Katy Garbi (Greek: ) (born June 8, 1963, in Egaleo, Athens) is a popular Greek singer in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. ... Anna Vissi (Greek: Άννα Βίσση; born December 20, 1957) is a Cypriot-Greek singer, famous mainly in Greece, and her home country Cyprus, with success in the United States as well. ... Despina Vandi (Greek; Δέσποινα Βανδή) (born Despina Malea, 22 July 1969, near Stuttgart-Tübingen, Southern Germany) is a Greek singer famous mainly in Greece and Cyprus with international success too (mainly in Europe and the United States). ...

Skiladiko(Skyladika)

Further information: Skiladiko

Greek Arabesque music. Skiladiko (or Skyladiko) is either a derogatory term to describe laiko or a decadent form of laiko. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Arabesk. ...

• Sotis Volanis
• Babisi Papadopoulos
• Diamanti
• Floriniotis
• Gonidis
• Kafasis
• Kardamilis
• Konstantinopoulos
• Sakis Tolias
• Pantazis
• Notis Volanakis

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Other popular trends

Folk singer-songwriters first appeared in the 1960s, with Dionysis Savvopoulos's 1966 breakthrough. Many of these musicians started out playing néo kýma, a mixture of éntekhno and chansons from France. Savvopoulos mixed American musicians like Bob Dylan and Frank Zappa with Macedonian folk music and politically incisive lyrics. In his wake came more folk-influenced performers like Arletta, Mariza Koch and Kostas Hatzis. The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969. ... Neo Kyma (Greek Νέο Κύμα - New Wave) was a movement in Greek music that started in the mid-1960s and lasted about a decade. ... Chanson is a French word for song, and in English-language contexts is often applied to any song with French words, particularly a cabaret song. ... This article is about the recording artist. ... Frank Vincent Zappa[1] (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, musician, and film director. ...

Another of Savvopoulos' pupils was Nikos Xydhakis, who revolutionized laïkó by using orientalized instrumentation. His most successful album was 1987's Konda sti Dhoxa Stigmi, recorded with Eleftheria Arvanitaki. Nikos Xydakis is a Greek pianist and singer. ... Eleftheria Arvanitaki is a Greek singer of Icarian descent, born in Piraeus. ...

Due to the considerable influence much Greek music has from Turkey and the Middle East, there have been exchanges of music and duets with singers from these areas. Greek singers like Sarbel have traslated songs from Arabic to Greek and these have become extremely popular. Also, with Greek-Turkish relations warming, there are songs that are the same and sung as a duet in both languages. A good example of a song crossing these three cultures is the song Anavis Foties by Despina Vandi. This song has been made into Arabic by Fadel Shaker and called, Dehket Al-Donya, and a Turkish-Greek duet entitled Aşka Yürek Gerek was done by Mustafa Sandal, a popular singer from Turkey, and Greek singer Natalia Doussopoulou. Sarbel Michael (Greek: ; born 14 May 1981), known professionally as simply Sarbel, is a Greek Cypriot pop and modern laika singer. ... Despina Vandi (Greek; Δέσποινα Βανδή) (born Despina Malea, 22 July 1969, near Stuttgart-Tübingen, Southern Germany) is a Greek singer famous mainly in Greece and Cyprus with international success too (mainly in Europe and the United States). ... This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... Mustafa Sandal, commonly known as Musti, is a famous Turkish pop singer. ...

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Samples

• Download recording - "Amaxas" Greek song from the Library of Congress' Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections; performed by Charles M. Brown, Louis Peronis (fiddle), Charylaos Perris (santouri) and George Kafezio (mandola) on August 26, 1939 in Tarpon Springs, Florida

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References

• Dubin, Marc and George Pissalidhes. "Songs of the Near East". 2000. In Broughton, Simon and Ellingham, Mark with McConnachie, James and Duane, Orla (Ed.), World Music, Vol. 1: Africa, Europe and the Middle East, pp 126-142. Rough Guides Ltd, Penguin Books. ISBN 1-85828-636-0
• Folk dances of the Greek regions

External links

• Helleniccomserve Short History of Greek Music
• ANA.com The Music of Greece
• Kithara.vu (in Greek). An collection of some 11,000 Greek songs, with lyrics and chords.
• Klika (in Greek). A site about Greek rembetika, popular (not Modern) and traditional music.
• Rembetiko Forum (in Greek). A forum about Greek rembetika, popular (not Modern) and traditional music.
• Traditional Greek folk music downloads
• Tabachaniotika
• Greek Clarinet Music