Musical Folklore Archives Melpo Merlie

Nightingales mine

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Song Information
Kind:Demotic
Category:Klephtic ballads
Area: Aghoriani or Heptalophos (Parnassus - Boeotia)
Nationality:Greek
Language:Greek
Dance:Table song
Scale:-
Collector:Merlier Melpo
Recording Place:Alambra Theatre, Athens
Recording Date:01/10/1930
Recording Responsible:Merlier Melpo
Duration:1:44
Other characteristics:Performed by natives, A capella
Register Information
Register date:21/02/2006
Register:Moraitis Thanassis
Comment:An 'at-the-table' cleftic song in typical 3-hemistich form (3 half-verses). The new master is Yusuf Arap, later to become the notorious torturer of Ali Pasha, and the winter is that of 1806.
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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