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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.
Pages in category "Greek children's songs" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D. Down by the Bay; S.
The English band The Unthanks recorded a version of this song on their 2015 album Mount the Air, [16] and the song appeared in the BBC series Detectorists, and the 4th season of the HBO series True Detective. The American alternative rock band The Innocence Mission featured a song called "One for Sorrow, Two for Joy" on their 2003 album Befriended.
Ancient Greek songs (4 C, 3 P) Greek Christian hymns (3 P) Eurovision songs of Greece (45 P) Greek patriotic songs (3 P) + English-language Greek songs (30 P) A.
The Seikilos epitaph is an Ancient Greek inscription that preserves the oldest surviving complete musical composition, including musical notation. [1] [2] Commonly dated between the 1st and 2nd century AD, the inscription was found engraved on a pillar from the ancient Hellenistic town of Tralles (present-day Turkey) in 1883.
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The seemingly frivolous nursery rhymes are taken to have [13] Scholars have compared the song to Moon and Sun stories at different levels, all the way back to the Greek myth of Phaethon who brought the Sun too close to the Earth. Roman sarcophagus depicting the fall of Phaethon. [13]