Musical Folklore Archives Melpo Merlie

On the bridge

Sample
Song Information
Kind:Demotic
Category:Ballades
Area: Trebizond (Pontos)
Nationality:Greek
Language:Pontic dialect
Dance:Omal 9/8 (2.2.2.3)
Scale:D mode
Collector:Merlier Melpo
Recording Place:Alambra Theatre, Athens
Recording Date:01/01/1930
Recording Responsible:Merlier Melpo
Duration:3:10
Other characteristics:Performed by natives, A capella
Register Information
Register date:25/01/1995
Register:Moraitis Thanassis
Comment:Omal 9/8 (2.2.2.3) - A ballad about a bridge that ceases to tumble down at night only when the master builder sacrifices his wife.
Storage media:Greek songs from Asia Minor / The Melpo Merlier Folk Music Archives (LP 64)
Artists/Instruments
Papantoniou Vassilios:Singer
Photos Collection

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Βασίλειος Παπαντωνίου, Τραπεζούντα (Ηχογράφηση 1930)

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