Musical Folklore Archives Melpo Merlie

Birds over the plains

Sample
Song Information
Kind:Demotic
Category:Emigration songs
Area: Aghoriani or Heptalophos (Parnassus - Boeotia)
Nationality:Greek
Language:Greek
Dance:Table song
Scale:Mode 2 plagal
Collector:Merlier Melpo
Recording Place:Alambra Theatre, Athens
Recording Date:01/10/1930
Recording Responsible:Merlier Melpo
Duration:1:25
Other characteristics:Performed by natives, A capella
Register Information
Register date:21/02/2006
Register:Moraitis Thanassis
Comment:Though rather free in rhythm ('at-the-table'), this widely spread emigrant song approaches a tsamiko-like 3/4. There are several variations of this melody.
Storage media:Νot given (CD 431)
Artists/Instruments
Timbas Loukas:Singer
Photos Collection

Λουκάς Τίμπας, Άνω Αγόριανη (Ηχογράφηση 1930)

Λουκάς Τίμπας, Άνω Αγόριανη (Ηχογράφηση 1930)

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