We are interested in Greek folk music genre classification by resorting to canonical correlation analysis (CCA). Here, the genre is related to the place of origin of the song. The CCA learns a linear transformation of the song lyrics descriptors that is highly correlated with their genre labels...
SONG lyrics"Greek Folk Songs," translated by Joshua Barley, is a collection of English translations of Greek folk songs. The translator aimed to maintain the rhythm and musicality of the original Greek while making the translations read well as modern English verse. The collection includes a ...
After the fall of Constantinople and the capture of the empire by the Ottomans in 1453, and up to the Greek Revolution in 1821, Greek music evolved in two separate ways; folk music, inspired by Ancient Greece; and church music, inspired by Byzantine music. Popular music started evolving ...
Zorba the Greek is one of the most known and characteristic Greek songs; it is instrumental with no lyrics involved, but has managed to captivate the hearts of both Greeks… Cretan music The first encounter with the Cretan Music will definitely take place in some nice taverna in Crete, or ...
Grigoris Bithikotsis was a great Greek singer, who gave to the folk music of Greece some of its most shocking moments, with his voice embraced post-war Greece, gave its own weight and its own popularity to his great works Mikis Theodorakis and became the catalyst for the lyrics of the ...
He “lived as he sang, sang as he lived and in the same way he left: ‘unrepeatable,’ as his melodic lyrics will say forever,” tweeted Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, using the title of one of Voskopoulos’s songs. Born in Greece’s main port city of Piraeus on Jul...
The poets of Lesbos developed solo songs with lyre accompaniment (monodic lyrics). In the poetry of Alcaeus (beginning of the sixth century B.C.) the motifs of the restless life of a political fighter and emigre were mingled with the imagery of the traditional drinking song. Sappho ...
The creator of folk songs is a single person who has been the witness of an event and he decides to describe it, using music and lyrics. He creates a song, but then the people adopt it and change it a little, popularizing it.
and its province expanded. Of metrical forms there remained only the political (fifteen-syllable) verse. From these simple materials there sprang forth an abundance of new poetic types. Alongside of the narrative romance of heroism and love there sprang up popular love lyrics, and even the beginn...
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