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Markos Botsaris (Folk Music of Greece)

Sample
Song Information
Kind:Demotic
Category:Klephtic ballads
Area: Epirus
Nationality:Greek
Language:Greek
Dance:Table song
Scale:-
Collector:Notopoulos Iakovos
Recording Place:Epirus
Recording Responsible:Notopoulos Iakovos
Duration:5:16
Other characteristics:Performed by natives
Register Information
Register date:14/04/1995
Register:Moraitis Thanassis
Comment:A lament for Markos Botsaris, one of the heroic leaders of the Greek War of Independence, famed for the defence of Messolonghi (1822-23).
Storage media:Folk Music of Greece (LP 74)
Artists/Instruments
Anonymous:Violin
Anonymous:Clarinet
Anonymous:Lute
Anonymous:Singer

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