Musical Folklore Archives Melpo Merlie

Katahanistikos (Kyrannia Protopapa)

Sample
Song Information
Kind:Demotic
Category:Table songs
Area: Othos (Karpathos - Dodecanese)
Nationality:Greek
Language:Greek
Dance:-
Scale:D mode (chromatic)
Collector:Merlier Melpo
Recording Place:Alambra Theatre, Athens
Recording Date:01/10/1930
Recording Responsible:Merlier Melpo
Duration:2:21
Other characteristics:Performed by natives
Register Information
Register date:23/02/2006
Register:Moraitis Thanassis
Comment:This air seems to originate in Casos, home to its probable composer, Katahanas (= a vampire, in the common Carpathian idiom.
Storage media:Νot given (CD 520)
Artists/Instruments
Protopapa Kyrannia:Singer
Niotis Manolis:Singer
Niotis Manolis:Lyra
Photos Collection

Μανώλης Νιοτής, Όλυμπος Καρπάθου (περίπου 1960)

Κυραννιά Πρωτόπαπα (από το αρχείο της Καλλιρόης Βόζου - Δεστέ, εγγονής του αδερφού της Κυραννιάς, Γεωργίου. Την φωτογραφία έδωσε στο ΜΛΑ η Βενετία Σκευοφύλακα)

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