| baglamas |
[not yet ready] |
| beat |
Greek folk music uses the time signatures 5/8, 7/8,
9/8, and 11/8. |
| bouzouki |
a pear-shaped string instrument whose name comes
from the Turkish word for 'head'. |
| clarinet |
[not yet ready] |
| Dalaras, George |
[not yet ready] |
| defi |
[not yet ready] |
| Dora Stratou folk dance theatre |
a folk dance theatre near the Acropolis in Athens |
| dulcimer |
see santdouri |
| Epirot clarinet |
[not yet ready] |
| five tone scale |
unlike other Western music in which notes are placed
in do-re-me (C-D-E) order, Greek music follows the order order do-do sharp-mi (C-C
sharp-E) |
| Gioconda's Smile |
an album recorded in New York in 1964 by Manos Hadjidakis |
| guitar |
[not yet ready] |
| Hadjidakis, Manos |
a composer whose works include Giaconda's Smile, Six Images of the People |
| lyra |
a stringed instrument from Crete |
| Markopoulos, Yannis |
a composer from Crete whose works include Periodia Proti (1978) |
| Periodia Proti |
a 1978 album by Yannis
Markopoulos, featuring the Cretan lyra |
| Plessas, Mimis |
a composer, formerly a jazzman, who has written a
lot of film soundtracks |
| rebetika, rembetika |
[not yet ready] |
| rebetiko, rembetiko |
[not yet ready] |
| santdouri |
a dulcimer - the instrument played by Anthony Quinn
in Zorba the Greek |
| Six Images of the People |
an album by Manos Hadjidakis |
| taksimi |
[not yet ready] |
| Theodorakis, Mikis |
a composer |
| Thracian bagpipe |
[not yet ready] |
| Tsitsanis |
a songwriter |
| violin |
[not yet ready] |
| Voskopoulos, Tolis |
a popular singer |