History of Music in Greece
The Greece music is as diverse and celebrated as its history. Greek music separates into two different parts: which is the Greek tradition...
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The
Greece music is as diverse and celebrated as its history. Greek music separates
into two different parts: which is the Greek traditional music and the
Byzantine music, with more eastern sounds.
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These
compositions have existed for millennia; they came in the Byzantine era and
Greek antiquity, where there is a continuous establishment that appears in the
rhythms, the structure, the melody, and in the language. Greek music has
several similarities with the music of Cyrus, their current famous music scenes
remaining well-integrated with one another. Music is an important area of
Hellenic culture, both within Greece and in the diaspora.
The
history of Greek music extends far back into ancient Greece, since music was a
main part of ancient Greek theatre. Later the influences from the Roman Empire,
Eastern Europe and the Byzantine Empire changed the way and the pattern of the
Greek music. In the 19th century, opera singers such as Spyridon
Xyndas from 1812 to 1862, Nikolaos Manzaros from 1795 to 1872 and Spyridon
Samaras from 1861 to 1917 and symphonists, like Dionysios Rodotheatos and
Dimitris Lialios restored Greek art music. However, the diverse history of art
music in Greece that extends from the Cretan Renaissance and reaches present
time, exceeds the objectives of the recent article, which is, in general,
limited to the presentation of the musical forms that have become synonymous to
Greek music during the last few eras; that is, the Greek song or the song in
Greek verse.
In
the olden Greece, combined-gender choruses were performed for celebration,
spiritual reasons and entertainment. The instruments included the double-reed
aulos and the plucked cord instrument (like pandura), the lyre, especially the
unique type known as the kithara.
Music
was a significant part of education in the olden Greece, and boys were taught
music starting at the age of six. Greek musical literacy makes a flowering of
development; Greek music theory included the Greek musical modes, and eventually
became the fundamental for the western religious music and the classical music.
