10 Facts About Greek music

Tradition of eastern liturgical chant, encompassing the Greek music-speaking world, developed in the Byzantine Empire from the establishment of its capital, Constantinople, in 330 until its fall in 1453.

Greek folk music traditions are said to derive from the music played by ancient Greeks.

Akritic Greek music comes from the 9th century akrites, or border guards of the Byzantine Empire.

Greek folk music is found all throughout Greece, Cyprus, and several regions of Turkey, as well as among communities in countries like the United States, Canada and Australia.

Greek music's work drew influences from the Greek folk music, poetry and myth, aiming to combine the German Romanticism with Greek motives.

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Greek music was followed by female singers like Marika Ninou, Ioanna Yiorgakopoulou, and Sotiria Bellou.

Theodorakis was the first composer to use the bouzouki in this genre of Greek music, trying to include this organ into the mainstream culture.

Until the 1930s the Greek discography was dominated by two musical genres: the Greek folk music and the elafro tragoudi.

The genre's sound was an imitation of the then contemporary Cuban and Mexican folk Greek music, but had elements from the early Athenian popular songs.

The Greek music culture exists as a serious aspect of Hellenic culture, both within Greece and in the diaspora.