Explore the archive based on musical genres.
REBETIKO
The great series of reforms (Tanzimat) that took place in the Ottoman Empire (1839, 1856) under the pressure of the western powers…
URBAN POPULAR SONG
The urbanization of rural populations, either through “national-local” displacements or through “international” immigration (mainly to the USA since the end of the 19th century)…
AMANES
One of the most important musical-poetic creations of the Greeks was established on a decapentasyllabic (literally 15-syllable, also known as political) couplet: the (a)manes…
DIMOTIKO (FOLK)
ELAFRO (LIGHT STYLE)
Up until the appearance of discography in Greece, the main field in which “elafro” (“light style”) Greek music was being heard was the theater…
The first serious attempt to connect western musical elements with local tradition was initially identified in the music of the Heptanese…
MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS
INTERNATIONAL REPERTOIRE
The history of scholar music in Greece barely extends more than two centuries, given that, due to the Ottoman rule, Hellenism was not able to follow the developments in the art of music…
Modern, engaged, folk-like, sometimes even urban popular-like compositions. The melodies imitate patterns of dimotiko (folk) or urban popular songs…
The invention of the phonograph undoubtedly helped the preservation of the orality of the ecclesiastical music tradition…
* The themes comprise indicative archival material and not the entire collection thereof available in the archive.
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