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What Are Tabachaniotika Songs
If you are looking forward to enjoy your holidays to Crete, set foot on some of the quaint towns and communities that dot the island. During your tours, you may come across an interesting scene: a group of townspeople playing a mandolin-like bouzoki and singing some sort of song that involves several Turkish names. You are looking at a performance of tabachaniotika.
The tabachaniotika is an urban collection of songs that belong to a large family of music such as the music of Cafe-aman and rebetiko. Tabachaniotika music beautifully merges together East European and Greek music, producing a style that represents the result of the Cretan-Minor Asia's Greek cultural syncretism in the East Mediterranean Sea. Immigrants from Smyrna improved on the music during their immigration in 1922 so much so that it became more practiced than the local rebetiko. Tabachaniotika is thought to have been performed while people roll and smoke hashish, or tobacco.
Tabachaniotika songs all share some major features. First, the songs are performed with a set of melody types called dromoi, which typically features modal types designated with Turkish names. Second, the songs are typically begun by an instrumental wherein the player plays Greek dromos. Third, traditional Mediterranean stringed musical instruments such as the bouzouki, boulgari, and Banglamas are used to provide the tune. Fourth, the songs feature a Tsifteteli rhythm.
The other major characteristic of tabachaniotika songs is that they have political verse, which are fifteen syllable lines split into two hemistichs, or half-line of a verse. These hemistichs are normally composed as mandinades, which are actually couplets. The lyrics of tabachaniotika songs usually depict lost love and existential grief. But there are also happier songs, particularly narrative pieces, dialogue-like pieces performed in duets, or songs that make fun of Turks. Unlike rebetiko, tamachaniotika songs are only meant to be sung, not accompanied with a dance.
When you are planning to spend your cheap holidays abroad, don't forget to look for places where you can listen to these interesting songs. Book your trip through Travel Republic.
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