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Track 15 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Religions of the World' (0'59") Music from the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom from the Greek Orthodox Church. This piece is a litany and features the singing of a priest and choir. The Track Explorer has one learning track focusing on the male voices.
Official classification: Listening, Religion, Devotion & Meditation, Interactive Activities, Male, Greece, Unison, Track Explorer, Christianity, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
This is a video of a modern Greek Bouzouki player. This particular instrument uses an electric pickup like an electric guitar.
Keywords: Greek, Greece, bazouki, folk.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv6Pl31p5nE
Official classification: Video, Greece, Curriculum support, Bouzouki
This video shows a Tzouras - a six stringed traditional instrument from Greece. It has a similar sound to a Bouzouki but has a smaller body with a long neck.
Keywords: Greek, Greece, bouzouki, tzouras, folk, stringed instrument
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIjzPCKQnOE
Official classification: Video, Greece, Curriculum support, Bouzouki, Tzouras
A video demonstrating a solo on a Greek bouzouki. The bouzouki is member of the 'long neck lute' family and is similar to a mandolin. The instrument is usually played with a plectrum and has sharp metallic sound. It is very popular in modern Greek music.
Greek, Greece, bouzouki, folk, mandolin, lute
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWFrEl_vNdI
Official classification: Video, Lute, Greece, Curriculum support, Bouzouki, Mandolin
A video demonstrating a double pipe 'aulos' - a double reed instrument probably dating back to ancient Greece. It sounds like a cross between a bagpipe and an oboe!
Keywords: Greek, Greece, woodwind, folk, ancient greece.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt56nrKtzO0
Official classification: Video, Greece, Curriculum support, Aulos
This fascinating video clip shows a performance from surviving fragments of ancient Greek music. The music is performed on copies of original instruments. The string instrument is a 7 string lyre(kithara).
Keywords: improvisation, kithara, voice, ancient Greece, folk, Greek
www.youtube.com/watch?v=piYpvpBgwRs
Official classification: Video, Voice, Greece, Curriculum support, Kithera
This video shows a typical modern Greek dance accompanied by bouzouki.
Keywords - Greece, dancing, zorba, bouzouki ,folk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=THfOfnrB9HI
Official classification: Video, Dance, Greece, Curriculum support, Bouzouki
The Hymn to Liberty is a poem written by Dionýsios Solomós in 1823 that consists of 158 stanzas and is the longest Hymn in the world, set to music by Nikolaos Mantzaros. In 1865, the first two stanzas officially became the national anthem of Greece and later also that of the Republic of Cyprus.
Official classification: National Anthems, Audio, Cyprus, Greece, Curriculum support
Image and audio music example of the cithara (kithára) which is wooden type of the Greek lyre.
Official classification: World Music Examples, Audio, Greece, Ancient Greece, Curriculum support, Kithera
The principle woodwind of Classical antiquity is the aulos, consisting of a pair of cylindrical pipes with double reed mouthpieces. Originally made from reed stems, wood or bone.
Official classification: World Music Examples, Audio, Greece, Ancient Greece, Curriculum support, Aulos
This video shows the beginning of the dance sequence from the classic film 'Zorba the Greek': Basil (Alan Bates) asks Zorba (Anthony Quinn) to teach him to dance 'Sirtaki'. It also shows some of the ancient Greek monuments and temples.
Official classification: Dance, Video, Greece, Ancient Greece, Curriculum support
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