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The most famous song that accompanies the Ikariotikos dance is called "My love of Ikaria", lyrics and music are by Giorgos Konitopoulos. Music and dancing are major forms of entertainment in Ikaria. Throughout the year Ikarians host baptisms, weddings, parties and religious festivals where one can listen and dance to live traditional Ikarian music.
The lyre is the dominant folk instrument along with the laouto, violin, tsampouna, and souravli with widely varying Greek characteristics. Representative musicians and performers of Nisiotika include: Mariza Koch , credited with reviving the field in the 1970s, Yiannis Parios , Domna Samiou and the Konitopoulos family (Giorgos and Vangelis ...
The Aegean islands of Greece are known for their Nisiótika (meaning from the islands) songs. The characteristics of these Greek island folk songs vary widely. [10] Although the basis of the sound is characteristically secular-Byzantine. The relative isolation of the islands allowed the separate development of island-specific Greek music. [10]
Map showing the location of the Greek island of Rhodes. The "Swallow Song of Rhodes" is a famous ancient Greek folk song.In a tradition closely resembling the modern custom of trick-or-treating, [1] during the month of Boedromion, the children on the Greek island of Rhodes would go out dressed as swallows and beg from door to door, singing the song.
B: You're Breaking My Heart * This Life * Ting-A-Ling Telephone * New World * I Will Never Be The Same * Maybe 1958. EP Epic ZTEP 60057/60058; A: Sal Mineo – My Bride * The Four Coins – All The Things You Are B: Roy Hamilton – Great Day * Somethin‘ Smith & The Redheads – I Can't Get Started With You 1961. LP MGM Records E3944: Greek Songs
The video itself was shot on location in the Greek island of Santorini, and features Rouvas singing in the water. The storyline was uncomplicated, featuring Rouvas and friends dancing and having a good time, with its objective being to put emphasis on the song's summer feeling through the dramatic natural beauty of the setting, representing a ...
Cretan music, like most of the traditional Greek music, began as product of ancient, Byzantine music, with western and eastern inspirations. The first recorded reference to lyra was in the 9th century by the Persian geographer Ibn Khurradadhbih (d. 911); in his lexicographical discussion of instruments, he cited the lyre (lūrā) as the typical ...
The Church music of the islands is also different from the rest of Greece's, with much western and Catholic influences on the Byzantine Rite. The region is also notable for the birth of the first school of modern Greek classical music ( Heptanese or Ionian School , Greek : Επτανησιακή Σχολή), established in 1815.