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The Melodious Sound Of Crete
If you are eyeing to spend your holidays to Crete, set foot on some of the rustic towns and communities that are all around the island. During your tours, you may find a fascinating scene: a group of townspeople playing a mandolin-like bouzoki and singing some sort of song that involves several Turkish names. You are witnessing a performance of tabachaniotika.
The tabachaniotika is an urban repertoire of songs that is part of a wide family of music such as the music of Cafe-aman and rebetiko. Tabachaniotika music seamlessly merges together East European and Greek music, producing a genre 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 well-known than the local rebetiko. Tabachaniotika is thought to have been sung while people roll and smoke hashish, or tobacco.
Tabachaniotika songs all share several major features. First, the songs are sung with a set of melody types called dromoi, which normally features modal types designated with Turkish names. Second, the songs are normally 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 are characterized by a Tsifteteli rhythm.
The other major component 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 generally composed as mandinades, which are actually couplets. The lyrics of tabachaniotika songs usually depict lost love and existential grief. However, there are also happier songs, particularly narrative pieces, dialogue-like pieces sung 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 have your cheap holidays abroad, don't forget to look for places where you can listen to these interesting songs. Reserve your travel through Travel Republic.
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