The Music of Greece during the Ottoman Empire
The Greek were familiar, in the era that stretched from the 15 th century to the time of the Greek war of independence, with Greek tradit...
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Greek were familiar, in the era that stretched from the 15th century
to the time of the Greek war of independence, with Greek traditional music and
dances from the Byzantine music and more specifically, with hymns: church
music. These genres have certainly reached a high point of evolution. They were
forms of a mono music that had several elements of olden Greek foundation but
also, they had nothing to do with the western polyphonic music. At the
beginning of the 20th century, music-cafes were famous in Greek
cities such as Smyrna and Constantinople, where small orchestras of artists
from Greece played. The bands were typically led by a female vocalist and include
a violin. The improvised songs typically exclaimed aman aman, which led to the
name amanedhes or café- aman movement, which had local Symyrnaic and Byzantine
influences.
source of picture: en.wikipedia.org
