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Wedding song (A. Symeonides)

Sample
Song Information
Kind:Demotic
Category:Wedding songs
Area: Cyprus
Nationality:Greek
Language:Cypriot dialect
Dance:-
Scale:-
Collector:-
Recording Date:01/01/1964
Duration:3:17
Other characteristics:Performed by natives
Register Information
Register date:14/02/1994
Register:Moraitis Thanassis
Comment:The melody, with different words, is used in the preparatory stages of a wedding: for the washing of the wheat at the village fountain, for the sewing of the bridal bed coverings, for the ceremony of dressing the bride and the bridegroom.
Storage media:Folk songs of Greek Isles (LP 1)
Artists/Instruments
Symeonidhis A.:Singer
Anonymous:Violin
Anonymous:Lute

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