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Threshing call
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Song Information
Kind:
Demotic
Category:
Work songs
Area:
Trebizond (Pontos)
Nationality:
Greek
Language:
Pontic (Turkish)
Dance:
-
Scale:
-
Collector:
Merlier Melpo
Recording Place:
Alambra Theatre, Athens
Recording Date:
01/10/1930
Recording Responsible:
Merlier Melpo
Duration:
0:38
Other characteristics:
Performed by natives, A capella, Prose
Register Information
Register date:
30/03/2006
Register:
Moraitis Thanassis
Comment:
This is not a song, but a stylized call shouted by villagers while threshing with their cows. Oxen usually were given Turkish names (i.e. Altoun), while cows had Greek ones (i.e. Morfoula etc).
Storage media:
Νot given (CD 704)
Artists/Instruments
Iossifidhou Xanthipi
:
Singer
Photos Collection
Ξανθίππη Ιωσηφίδου, Τραπεζούντα - Πόντος (Ηχογράφηση 1930)
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