14 Rebetika: Nine-Eight

By Dimitris Chatzilias

This collection is the second volume of a sheet music book series dedicated to Greek folk music, a very interesting, genuine and compound musical genre of great harmonic and rhythmic value, which is now widely considered as a precious cultural inheritance gaining admirers all over the world. The purpose of this series is to document some of the classical Greek folk musical pieces with as much detail and accuracy as possible (including improvisational -taksimi- parts) instead of presenting just a general view of these songs, something that has already been done several times before. In addition, this book series cover all the usual harmonic and melodic variations of the songs, as encountered in the numerous executions, appeared until today. Everything is written both in English and Greek. All musical scores include both standard notation and tablature . But most important, each book goes with the respective audio material (over 100 rehearsal/backing tracks), which can be downloaded from the book's website after your purchase. This second volume is a compilation of songs that fall into the musical genre known as "rebetiko". This original and unpretentious folk music style that has been evolved through poverty, immigration and oppression has been the basis of Greek folk music of the after years, until today. Historically the compilation is focused on the classic phase of rebetiko (1932-1942), but some further subsequent samples of this genre have also been included, in order to present as far as possible, a well-rounded aspect of this music. In this book you will find musical scores of 14 Greek rebetika songs based on the traditional 3-string bouzouki, that have been arranged for all the instruments of a basic folk band. Particularly, the songs consist of one singing voice, 1st and 2nd bouzouki (or tzouras), one baglamas and one classical guitar. As for the rhythm patterns, the compilation is comprised of "zeibekika" and "hasapika", the two most common rhythms of rebetiko. The musical arrangements presented here are the outcome of a very thorough work, so that they remain devoted to the original compositions, but also maintain their balance between the beautiful plainness of the music phrases and the rich and challenging playing. Song contents: Hatzikyriakio (Bayanderas), Pono de me lypase (Skarvelis), Pede mages (Yovan Tsaous), Katse n' akousis mia penia (Tsitsanis), Kathe vradi tha se perimeno (Vamvakaris), I foni tou argile (Papazoglou), Ta ziliarika sou matia (Vamvakaris), Matsaraga (Tsitsanis), Pou na vro gyneka na sou miazi (Diamantidis), Saltadoros (Yenitsaris), Peftis se lathi (Tsitsanis), To magalaki (Hatzichristos), Pes to ne (Skarvelis), O Ksemagas (Papazoglou) Update for our old customers: Our domain has changed to www.nine-eigth.co

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1500191116
• ISBN13: 9781500191115
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.4" x 8.5"