MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS / Revue’s music

Article by Manolis Seiragakis, Assistant Professor of Theatrology, University of Crete

Revue’s music is one of the most scorned sources in theater’s historiography. Until 1976, theatrical researchers considered completely unnecessary, if not beneath them, to even talk about Revue. But then the three-volume “Athinaiki Epitheorisi” (“Athenian Revue”) was published, a baseline study by Thodoros Chatzipantazis and Lila Maraka, which sparked an interest in the constantly growing genre.

... However, few have realized that the research on this genre can not be limited to the hardly few surviving files of revue texts; it should be extended to the record labels’ archives and to the collectors’ 78 rpm records.
Revue’s music was ignored, in similar fashion, by rebetiko collectors. Considering it spurious or rebetiko-like, revue was neglected due to the lack of the supposedly classic rebetiko musical instruments (bouzouki, baglamas) in the recordings and due to its lighter, western “vibe”, reminiscent of Athenian serenades or, finally, due to its facetious attitude towards the amanes, the figure of the mangas (someone who is a master of himself and who has little respect for any authority beyond his own inclinations and personal principles) and the world of “genuine” rebetiko.
Panagiotis Kounadis solved once and for all the relevant misunderstandings. Not only did he clear revue music’s name, but he also used the innumerable pre-war revue/rebetiko songs to draw fruitful conclusions about the relationship between rebetiko and revue. The courageous documentation of these findings with numerous examples from his valuable collection underlined that discography is an ideal source for the study of different elements (music, lyrics, orchestration, prose, typology), offering a fuller picture of the smallest structural part of the revue, that is, the act.

I gynaika einai mystirio

Musical Scores / Παρτιτούρες
1933, Athens, Anysios M.

Mystirio i gynaika

Musical Scores / Παρτιτούρες
Athens, Attik (Triantafyllou Kleon)

To alkool ki i nikotini

Musical Scores / Παρτιτούρες
1957, Athens, Iakovidis Zak - Vellas Giannis

I Sevilliana

Musical Scores / Παρτιτούρες
1932, Athens, Iatridou Sotiria

Rinaki

Musical Scores / Παρτιτούρες
Alexandria, Ioannidis Petros I.

Matia

Musical Scores / Παρτιτούρες
1935, Athens, Giannidis Kostas

Sagionara

Musical Scores / Παρτιτούρες
1958, Athens, Theofanidis Menelaos

Matia kastana

Musical Scores / Παρτιτούρες
1934, Athens, Martino Angelos

Egina bekris

Musical Scores / Παρτιτούρες
1933, Athens, Konstantinidis Grigoris

To fox tis balarinas Kremetai

Musical Scores / Παρτιτούρες
1925, Athens, Konstantinidis Grigoris

Manavis kai doula - Ta stafylia

78 RPM Records
01/1928, New York, [Oikonomakos Ioannis]

To sigareto

78 RPM Records
01/1928, New York, Unknown

Ta barmperakia

78 RPM Records
1927-1928, New York, Konstantinidis Grigoris

Akou ti thelo san pantreftoume

78 RPM Records
05/1929, New York, Zattas Dimosthenis

Oi glentzedes

78 RPM Records
05/1929, New York, Vottis Antonis

Birimpirimpakia

78 RPM Records
24/12/1928, New York, Unknown

Tou vlami to parapono

78 RPM Records
18/7/1929, New York, Skizas Ierotheos

I kardia tou magka

78 RPM Records
9/10/1929, New York, [Ierotheos Skizas]

Athanato romaiiko

78 RPM Records
9/10/1929, New York, Skizas Ierotheos

Palia Stratona

78 RPM Records
11/11/1929, New York, Vitalis Giorgos

Epistrofi tou Kyriakou stin Athina

78 RPM Records
26/05/1930, Athens, Katrivanos Mimis

E re po po merakia

78 RPM Records
21/05/1930, Athens, Notaraki [Notarakis Zacharias ?], Tedis [Dimitriadis Tetos]

O skylomagkas

78 RPM Records
21/05/1930, Athens, Kyriakos Petros, Tedis [Dimitriadis Tetos]

Dos' mou deka talara

78 RPM Records
21/05/1930, Athens, Tedis [Dimitriadis Tetos]

Lexiko tou magka (Esperanto)

78 RPM Records
18/05/1931, Athens, Kapetanakis Kimon

Stasa

78 RPM Records
18/05/1931 , Athens, Skizas Ierotheos

To moro mou

78 RPM Records
30/4/1928, New York, Yvain Maurice

Manavis kai doula

78 RPM Records
26/9/1927, New York, [Oikonomakos Ioannis]

To sigareto

78 RPM Records
26/9/1927, New York, Unknown

Romaiiko glenti

78 RPM Records
1936 (;), New York, Kamvysis Giorgos

To dolario

78 RPM Records
18/05/1931, Athens, [Skizas Ierotheos ?]

Erotes gaidaron

78 RPM Records
22/05/1931, Athens, Skizas Ierotheos, Nicolson

I grammatiki tou magka

78 RPM Records
18/05/1931, Athens, Kamvysis Giorgos

O evzonas

78 RPM Records
12/1913 or 01/1914, Alexandria, [Unknown]

Nea gynaika

78 RPM Records
04/1909, Smyrna (Izmir), [Di Chiara Vincenzo Adaptation: Sakellaridis Theofrastos]

Foustanela, fesi

78 RPM Records
1919-1920 (;), Constantinople (Istanbul), Unknown

Armenis prosfyx

78 RPM Records
1929, Athens, Unknown

Mparmpagiannis kanatas

78 RPM Records
1931, Athens, Kamvysis Giorgos

O bekrokanatas

78 RPM Records
1931, Athens, Kyriakos Petros

O logos tou Kyriakou

78 RPM Records
1931, Athens, Unknown

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MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS / Revue’s music

I gynaika einai mystirio

Mystirio i gynaika

To alkool ki i nikotini

I Sevilliana

Rinaki

Matia

Sagionara

Matia kastana

Egina bekris

To fox tis balarinas Kremetai

Manavis kai doula - Ta stafylia

To sigareto

Ta barmperakia

Akou ti thelo san pantreftoume

Oi glentzedes

Birimpirimpakia

Tou vlami to parapono

I kardia tou magka

Athanato romaiiko

Palia Stratona

Epistrofi tou Kyriakou stin Athina

E re po po merakia

O skylomagkas

Dos' mou deka talara

Lexiko tou magka (Esperanto)

Stasa

To moro mou

Manavis kai doula

To sigareto

Romaiiko glenti

To dolario

Erotes gaidaron

I grammatiki tou magka

O evzonas

Nea gynaika

Foustanela, fesi

Armenis prosfyx

Mparmpagiannis kanatas

O bekrokanatas

O logos tou Kyriakou

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