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Traditional Music-Greece

  • Writer: adam kadishman shakine
    adam kadishman shakine
  • Jul 30, 2025
  • 2 min read

Greek traditional folk music


ancient traditional church music:


byzantine chant


byzantine church composers who's works survived:

anatolius of Constantinople

severus of Antioch

john bar aphtonia

romanos the melodist

germanus I

Andrew of crete

john of Damascus (john damascene)

cosmas of maiuma (kosmas of Jerusalem)

Stephen the sabaite

theodore the Studite

joseph the confessor

kassia

joseph the hymnographer

leo VI the wise

Constantine VII

john koukouzelis

xenos korones

joannes glykys

john kladas

manuel chrysaphes

janus plousiadenos


byzantine church composers under ottoman rule:

petros bereketis

panagiotes the new chrysaphes

balasios the priest

germanos bishop of new patras

petros peloponnesios

peter the byzantine


-petros tabouris-thyrthen post byzantine secular music 13th- 17th centuries(album)


more modern traditional folk music:


lyra Greek dancers:


albums:


Peloponnesan Folklore Foundation albums:


-Ελληνική Δημοτική Μουσική / Greek Folk Music Volume I

-Ελληνική Δημοτική Μουσική / Greek Folk Music Volume II

-Ελληνική Δημοτική Μουσική "Τραγούδια Του Γάμου" / Greek Folk Music Volume III "Wedding Songs"


Elenis and athanasiou-Greek folk dances


Greek Folk Music: An Anthology of Tunes



Smithsonian folkways albums:

-Folk Music of Greece

-Folk Dances of Greece

-songs and dances of greece

-amalia!old Greek songs in the new land: 1923-1950

-Greek jewish musical traditions


rebetiko & laiko:

kostas skarvelis

Antonis Diamantidis (Dalgkas)

Marika Papagika

George Mitsakis

Panagiotis Toundas

Iovan Tsaous

Stratos Pagioumtzis

Christos Kolokotronis

Eftychia Papagiannopoulou

Kostas Virvos

Thodoros Derveniotis

Babis Bakalis

George Zambetas 

Panos Tzavellas

Kostas Karipis

Spyros Peristeris

Rita Abatzi

Giorgos Kavouras

Kostas Roukounas

Stelios Perpiniadis

Marika Frantzeskopoulou

Kostas Tsanakos

Markos Vamvakaris

Apostolos Chatzichristos

Grigoris Asikis

Stratos Pagioumtzis

Anestos Delias

yiorgos batis

anestis delias

Dimitris gogos

Giannis Chasavetis

manaki mou

iornadis tsomidis

Smyrna trio (roza eskenazi/Agapios Tomboulis/Lambros Leondaridis) 

Dimitrios semsis

vassilis tsitsanis

sotiria bellou

marika ninou

giorgos katsaros

stella haskil

yiannis Papaioannou

Ioanna Georgakopoulou

Prodromos Tsaousakis

Michalis Genitsaris

Apostolos Kaldaras

Stelios Perpiniadis

Stratos Pagioumtzis

Anna Hrisafi

kaiti grey

Stratos Payoumtzis

Giorgos Mitsakis

Manolis Chiotis

Loukas Daralas

Antonios Katinaris

Grigoris Bithikotsis

Spyros Zagoraios

Manolis Angelopoulos

Stratos Dionysiou

Nikos Vrachnas

Stelios Kazantzidis

Marinella

Poly Panou

Yiota Lydia

Apostolos Nikolaidis

giorgos vidalis

sotiris gavalas

Apostolos hatzichristos

Giannis ogdontacis

manolis chiotis

Vangelis papzoglu

Smyrneiki Estudiantina

Giannis Kalatzis

Giorgos Dalaras

aris san


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