Modern Greek Music
Michael Lahanas
Ελληνική Μουσική

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Eurovision -Greece


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1974

Their name derives from Ancient Greek Mythology – the myth of Hercules who received from goddess Athena a pair of wooden plates in the form of rattles, the krótala, crafted by the god of Fire Hephaestus in order to help the mythic hero face the monstrous Birds of Stymphalus. By clashing the krótala together, Hercules applied the divine power of their sound that scared the Birds and sent them away.

Files) My comment about Klynn: “UKAKABUMBUMKI KABAKUMKIRIKAKA AUKIKI AUKIKI BAKALAKAUKAKA!” (Read as German text)


Foreign Artist and relation to Greek Musicians


After a six month period of wandering from village to village (in Crete) encountering local musicians, He settled in the town of Hania on the west of the island and began studying the Cretan Lyra with it's great master Kostas Mountakis. This apprenticeship was to last for many years. “If you say to a foreigner that the most widespread Greek instrument is the clarinet, you will pass for insane! “ (


Musicologists


Simon Karras (Σίμων Καράς) (21.5.1905 Olympia, 26.1.1999), a important Greek musicologist (see also byzantine music), Σύλλογος προς Διάδοσιν της Εθνικής Μουσικής (1929) in Greek


MTV, VIVA et al


Anastasia Zamponis (28. 12. 1972