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The crow and the battle of Valtetsi (Modern Greek Heroic Oral Poetry)

Sample
Song Information
Kind:Demotic
Category:Klephtic ballads
Area: Peloponnese
Nationality:Greek
Language:Greek
Dance:Table song
Scale:-
Collector:Notopoulos Iakovos
Recording Place:Strigou, Arcadia
Recording Date:01/01/1952
Recording Responsible:Notopoulos Iakovos
Duration:4:41
Other characteristics:Performed by natives
Register Information
Register date:14/04/1995
Register:Moraitis Thanassis
Comment:This ballad tells of the battle of Valtetsi (May 1821) and the victory of Kolokotronis, the general of the greek forces in Peloponese during the War of Independence.
Storage media:Modern Greek Heroic Oral Poetry (LP 75)
Artists/Instruments
Stamatopoulos Nikos:Singer
Anonymous:Violin
Anonymous:Clarinet
Anonymous:Lute

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