Nisiotika
 | This article does not cite any sources. (November 2019) |
 | ||||||||
| Music of Greece | ||||||||
| General topics | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
||||||||
| Genres | ||||||||
|
||||||||
| Specific forms | ||||||||
|
||||||||
| Media and performance | ||||||||
|
||||||||
| Nationalistic and patriotic songs | ||||||||
|
||||||||
| Regional music | ||||||||
|
||||||||
Nisiotika (Greek: νησιώτικα, meaning "insular (songs)") are the songs and dances of Greek islands with a variety of styles, played by ethnic Greeks in Greece, Turkey, Australia, the United States and elsewhere.
The lyre is the dominant folk instrument along with the laouto, violin, tsampouna and souravli with widely varying Greek characteristics.
Representative musicians and performers of Nisiotika include: Mariza Koch, credited with reviving the field in the 1970s, Yiannis Parios, Domna Samiou and the Konitopoulos family (Giorgos and Vangelis Konitopoulos, Eirini, Nasia and Stella Konitopoulou).
There are also prominent elements of Cretan music on the Dodecanese Islands and Cyclades.
Notable artists[]
|
Composers:
|
Singers:
|
Folk dances[]
The Aegean Islands have a rich folk dance tradition. For example; syrtos, sousta and ballos.
- Ballos
- Ikariotikos
- Kalymnikos
- of Naxos
- Lerikos of Leros
- Mihanikos
- Pentozalis
- Pirgousikos of Chios
- Pidikhtos
- Sousta (Sousta Lerou, Sousta Tilou)
- Syrtos (Syrtos Kythnou, Syrtos Serifou, Syrtos Naxou)
- Trata
See also[]
- Greek folk music
- Greek dances
- Cretan music
External links[]
- Greek dances
- Greek words and phrases