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	<title>Greek Music &#38; Greek Songs &#187; Greek Music</title>
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		<title>Greek Music of Macedonia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Greek Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Macedonia Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Greek music from Macedonia is diverse, rhythmic and very distinctive.
The region of Macedonia in North Greece is one of the richest in music expression and dances. The Greek music of Macedonia belongs to the musical idioms of mainland Greece but also presents an interesting internal diversity, due to the great mass of refugees that Macedonia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greek Music in Movies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Greek Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hadjidakis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mercouri Melina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Papathanassiou Vangelis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greek Music in movies has been more popular abroad than most Greeks believe; in fact, many foreign movies have enhanced their story with Greek music and songs that have gained international recognition.
Movies have been the perfect vehicle to make Greek Music known worldwide. Up to a point, most foreigners believed that Greek music was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skyladika, the Greek Dog Songs</title>
		<link>http://www.greeksongs-greekmusic.com/skyladika-the-greek-dog-songs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 17:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Greek Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laika]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever heard of the Greek dog songs and music or skyladika, as they are known in Greece?
The Birth of Dog Songs &#8211; Skyladika in Greece
Laika songs and music are very popular in Greece in all their forms and variations. They have created  their own brand of widely popular, star singers as it did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laika Songs in Greece</title>
		<link>http://www.greeksongs-greekmusic.com/greek-laika-songs-in-greece/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greeksongs-greekmusic.com/greek-laika-songs-in-greece/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Greek Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laika]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Laika songs, which stand for &#8220;popular music” in Greece is a popular genre of Greek music; laika are the simplified evolution of rebetika songs in Greece, aiming at becoming easier to the ear and appropriate for mass production.
Laika songs are probably, along with the rebetika, the most characteristic and recognizable genre even from foreigners, due [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greek Easter hymns</title>
		<link>http://www.greeksongs-greekmusic.com/greek-easter-hymns/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greeksongs-greekmusic.com/greek-easter-hymns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 18:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Greek Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[church music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Greek Easter hymns are among the most beloved, spiritual and esoteric hymns of the Orthodox Church Liturgies. To the Greek Orthodox Christians the Holy Week centers around the hymns and the Church.
There are several hymns, troparia as they are called in Greek, sung during the Holy Week, with the most important ones being the Troparion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient Greek Music</title>
		<link>http://www.greeksongs-greekmusic.com/ancient-greek-music/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greeksongs-greekmusic.com/ancient-greek-music/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Greek Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ancient Greek music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ancient Greek Music is an indispensable part of modern music, despite the many unknown parts and elements. Music played a very important part in almost every aspect of life for the ancient Greeks. It was heard at their public gatherings and at their private dinner-parties, at their ceremonies, both joyful and sad; it was heard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zeibekiko &#8211; A Famous Greek Dance</title>
		<link>http://www.greeksongs-greekmusic.com/zeibekiko-greek-dance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greeksongs-greekmusic.com/zeibekiko-greek-dance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Greek Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[folk dances]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zeibekiko]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Zeibekiko, or Zeimbekiko, is a Greek Dance, one of the most popular and beloved dances and rhythms in Greece. It is considered an urban improvisational dance, following a dancing pattern of 9/8.
The Origins of Zeibekiko
Zeibekiko dance is considered a Greek dance, but its origins are found to a particular dance of warriors in Anatolia (today’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greek Music against the Greek Junta</title>
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		<comments>http://www.greeksongs-greekmusic.com/greek-music-against-the-greek-junta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Greek Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theodorakis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Greek Music against the Greek Junta of 1967-1974 we mean the music produced in Greece during the 7-year period that Greece was ruled by the dictator Georgios Papadopoulos and his collaborators. We pay tribute to the Resistance against the Junta on November 17th every year, that day of 1973 when the students of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cretan lyra</title>
		<link>http://www.greeksongs-greekmusic.com/cretan-lyra/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greeksongs-greekmusic.com/cretan-lyra/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>arxigos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Greek Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The main instrument of Cretan Music is the  Cretan lyra, a small three stringed fiddle held upright on the knee, bowed horizontally with a lyra bow. The Cretan lyra is distinctive and inspiring; its origins are also a big mystery, although it seems that it comes from the Persian instrument called rebab. This type [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greek Music during World War 2</title>
		<link>http://www.greeksongs-greekmusic.com/greek-music-during-world-war-2-1940-1944/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greeksongs-greekmusic.com/greek-music-during-world-war-2-1940-1944/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Greek Music]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.greeksongs-greekmusic.com/?p=837</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Greek Music during World War 2 and especially the events of 1940 comprises a long and interesting chapter of the history of music and song creation in Greece. Greek Music in the 1940s proved to be a great support for the soldiers and the independent Greek Spirit during the War and a point of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cretan music</title>
		<link>http://www.greeksongs-greekmusic.com/cretan-music/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greeksongs-greekmusic.com/cretan-music/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crete Songs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greek Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The first encounter with the Cretan Music will definitely take place in some nice taverna in Crete, or even in Athens, during an organized Greek night or Cretan Folk Feast that you can attend while visiting Greece and the lovely island of Crete. If you are lucky enough, you will hear some genuine Cretan music [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Melisma in Nisiotika songs</title>
		<link>http://www.greeksongs-greekmusic.com/melisma-in-nisiotika-songs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greeksongs-greekmusic.com/melisma-in-nisiotika-songs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Greek Islands - Nisiotika]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greek Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In some of the most known Nisiotika songs, such as “Tzivaeri” or “Na s’agapo inta thela”, the pleasing melody pampers everyone ears and can definitely please the casual listener, but the lyrics demand more careful and educated ear.
The reason is “melisma”, a musical term that derives from the ancient language, referring to group of notes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ballos Dance of the Greek Islands</title>
		<link>http://www.greeksongs-greekmusic.com/ballos-dance-of-the-greek-islands/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greeksongs-greekmusic.com/ballos-dance-of-the-greek-islands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Greek Islands - Nisiotika]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greek Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ballos dance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[syrtos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most known and lovely to dance or watch Greek Dances is ballos, the dance of the Greek islands. Ballos is a syrtos dance, which means that the dancers drag their steps following the rhythm of the music, but it is far different than the numerous types of syrtos dances in Greece.
Ballos Dance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nisiotika songs from the Greek Islands</title>
		<link>http://www.greeksongs-greekmusic.com/nisiotika-songs-greek-islands/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greeksongs-greekmusic.com/nisiotika-songs-greek-islands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Greek Islands - Nisiotika]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greek Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nisiotika is one of the most distinctive categories of Greek Music and Greek songs, referring to the music created in the islands of the central Aegean Sea – the complexes of Cyclades, the Dodecanese and the Sporades. Other islands, such as Crete or the Ionian islands feature a different type of music, peculiar to individual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rebetika Songs &#8211; Greek Urban Laika Songs</title>
		<link>http://www.greeksongs-greekmusic.com/rebetika-songs-rebetiko/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greeksongs-greekmusic.com/rebetika-songs-rebetiko/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Greek Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rebetika Songs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rebetiko]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rebetiko or Rebetika are the Greek Urban Laika Songs that made their first appearance towards the end of the 19th century and developed to its mostly known form till the third decade of the 20th century.
The Rebetiko genre of Greek music was born at the harbors, where the Greek labour class used to live – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zorba the Greek</title>
		<link>http://www.greeksongs-greekmusic.com/zorba-the-greek/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greeksongs-greekmusic.com/zorba-the-greek/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Greek Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greek Songs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sirtaki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theodorakis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 and foreigners and advertise Greece all over the world. The music is written by the infamous and acclaimed composer Mikis Theodorakis.
Alexis Zorbas &#8211; Zorba the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greek Folk Music &#8211; Greek Folk Songs</title>
		<link>http://www.greeksongs-greekmusic.com/greek-folk-music-greek-folk-songs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greeksongs-greekmusic.com/greek-folk-music-greek-folk-songs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Greek Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[folk dances]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Greek Folk Music derives from the music and sounds produced and played by the ancient Greeks. This genre is actually extremely diverse, as it includes a variety of styles played all over Greece. There are several different types and distinct differences among them, depending on the region; mainland Folk music is much more different than [...]]]></description>
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