Musical Folklore Archives Melpo Merlie

Clockwise dance

Song Information
Kind:Demotic
Category:Love songs
Area: Olymbos (Karpathos - Dodecanese)
Nationality:Greek
Language:Greek
Dance:Zervos
Scale:D mode
Collector:Merlier Melpo
Recording Place:Alambra Theatre, Athens
Recording Date:01/10/1930
Recording Responsible:Merlier Melpo
Duration:3:21
Other characteristics:Performed by natives
Register Information
Register date:28/02/2006
Register:Moraitis Thanassis
Comment:In Greek this dance is called 'Zervos', meaning leftward. And it is it is indeed a rarity, as the vast majority of Greek circular dances have an overall counterclockwise (rightward) motion.
Storage media:Νot given (CD 521)
Artists/Instruments
Papanikolaou Komninos:Lute
Women from Karpathos:Choir
Niotis Manolis:Singer
Niotis Manolis:Lyra
Photos Collection

Μανώλης Νιοτής, Όλυμπος Καρπάθου (περίπου 1960)

Κομνηνός Παπανικολάου, Όλυμπος Καρπάθου (Ηχογράφηση 1930)

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