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Musical scene with three women painted by the Niobid painter.Side A of a red-figure amphora, Walters Art Museum. Music played an integral role in ancient Greek society. Pericles' teacher Damon said, according to Plato in the Republic, "when fundamental modes of music change, the fundamental modes of the state change with t
The "Hymn to Liberty", [a] also known as the "Hymn to Freedom", [b] is a Greek poem written by Dionysios Solomos in 1823 and set to music by Nikolaos Mantzaros in 1828. It officially became the national anthem of Greece in 1864 and Cyprus in 1966. Consisting of 158 stanzas in total, is the longest national anthem in the world by length of text. [3]
Dance of Zalongo Greek: Χορός του Ζαλόγγου, Horos tou Zalongou) refers to the mass suicide of Souliote women and their children that is said to have occurred in the aftermath of the invasion of Ottoman troops on Souli on December 16, 1803. The event is commemorated in Greece in the context of the Greek War of Independence.
The Acritic songs (Greek: Ακριτικά τραγούδια, lit. 'frontiersmen songs') are the epic poems that emerged in the Byzantine Empire probably around the ninth century. The songs celebrated the exploits of the Akritai , the frontier guards defending the eastern borders of the Byzantine Empire.
After the start of the Greek War of Independence, a band called the Musical Troupe (Μουσικός Θίασος) was created within the army. The troupe formed in 1824 started by French Colonel Charles Nicolas Fabvier. Based in then capital Nafplio, it was the first military band in Greek history.
The music of Greece is as diverse and celebrated as its history.Greek music separates into two parts: Greek traditional music and Byzantine music.These compositions have existed for millennia: they originated in the Byzantine period and Greek antiquity; there is a continuous development which appears in the language, the rhythm, the structure and the melody. [1]
The Seikilos epitaph is an Ancient Greek inscription that preserves the oldest surviving complete musical composition, including musical notation. [1] Commonly dated between the 1st and 2nd century AD, the inscription was found engraved on a pillar from the ancient Hellenistic town of Tralles (present-day Turkey) in 1883.
The practices of song and dance were not reserved for only the young men. In a different area of the city three groups of choruses would gather to perform traditional songs together. They would honour Apollo through songs and performed songs which represented the phases of life. [9] [5] The songs would have been written by famous Spartan poets ...