Browsing Αρχείο Ελληνικής Παραδοσιακής Μουσικής "Δημήτρης Θέμελης" = Archives of Greek Traditional Music "Dimitris Themelis" by Subject "Ikaria"
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Αμπέλι μου στραβόραδο.
(2016-06-08)The words of this song conjure up the characteristic landscape of Ikaria, with its vine-dotted slopes, rainy Mesaria, the storms that batter the mountainous region of Athera, and the sunbathed coastal village of Evdhilos, ... -
Αφ' ότου απεφάσισα.
(2016-06-09)This song is strophic in composition. The melody is divided into two units, the second serving as a refrain. The first unit covers the first four fifteen syllable iambic lines, and uses the diatonic hexachord based on D. ... -
Δως του, δως του πέρα.
(2016-05-08)This sung version of the Ikariotiko dance has a "carpe diem" theme, painting a picture of the inevitable end of each human life and encouraging dancing and making merry. The song is a strophic composition, each verse ... -
Είμ' εργάτης του λιμένος.
(2016-06-09)This is a working class love song. The verses are rhyming couplets in fifteen syllable iambic meter, the second line augmented by the (oriental) interjection - aman aman - and repeated. While the melodic unit for the first ... -
Η αμπελοκουτσούρα.
(2016-06-08)"The Grapevine" is one of the most characteristic of the island's folk songs. The text is a hymn to the grapevine and the wine it yields. This is only natural, for the vine has been associated with Ikaria since antiquity, ... -
Η Έλλη θέλει σκότωμα.
(2016-06-08)This song, which obviously originated in Asia Minor, is strophic in composition. Each verse is in the form of a rhyming couplet in fifteen syllable iambic meter, followed by a thirteen syllable refrain in a contrasting ... -
Ικαριώτικος "Ευδηλιώτικος"
(2016-06-09)This dance, with its duple (2/4) rhythm, is a type of syrtos. It is the dance most characteristic of the island, and each locality has its own variation. Indeed, each individual instrumentalist plays his own version. With ... -
Ικαριώτικος "Τσαμούρικος" ή "Πειραματικός".
(2016-06-09)This dance, with its duple (2/4) rhythm, is a type of syrtos. It is the dance most characteristic of the island, and each locality has its own variation. Indeed, each individual instrumentalist plays his own version. With ... -
Ικαριώτικος (βιολί).
(2016-06-09)This dance, with its duple (2/4) rhythm, is a type of syrtos. It is the dance most characteristic of the island, and each locality has its own variation. Indeed, each individual instrumentalist plays his own version. With ... -
Κάλαντα Πρωτοχρονιάς.
(2016-06-09)This New Year's carol is strophic in composition. The basic melody is repeated for each iambic heptameter line, but each time with a wealth of ornamentation in a very Byzantine style. -
Καριώτικο.
(2016-06-09)This dance, with its duple (2/4) rhythm, is a type of syrtos. It is the dance most characteristic of the island, and each locality has its own variation. Indeed, each individual instrumentalist plays his own version. With ... -
Σήμερα γάμος γίνεται.
(2016-05-08)In this wedding song the singer wishes the bride and the groom and their parents a life as full of years and happiness as the flowers in spring of the snows in winter. The song is strophic. Each single fifteen syllable ... -
Σήμερα είν' η σχόλη σου.
(2016-06-08)This song is sung for a friend or realative celebrating his name day. It describes the entertainment - a lavish spread on the table accompanied by local wine - and finishes with good wishes for the entire family. The ... -
Στου Παπά το μπουγάζι.
(2016-06-08)This song with its lovely dance tune paints a vivid picture of a lugger struggling to round Cape Papas, battling the savage waves and the strong winds that blow incessantly round the headland. It expresses the hope and the ...
