Musical Folklore Archives Melpo Merlie

Threshing call

Sample
Song Information
Kind:Demotic
Category:Work songs
Area: Trebizond (Pontos)
Nationality:Greek
Language:Pontic (Turkish)
Dance:-
Scale:-
Collector:Merlier Melpo
Recording Place:Alambra Theatre, Athens
Recording Date:01/10/1930
Recording Responsible:Merlier Melpo
Duration:0:38
Other characteristics:Performed by natives, A capella, Prose
Register Information
Register date:30/03/2006
Register:Moraitis Thanassis
Comment:This is not a song, but a stylized call shouted by villagers while threshing with their cows. Oxen usually were given Turkish names (i.e. Altoun), while cows had Greek ones (i.e. Morfoula etc).
Storage media:Νot given (CD 704)
Artists/Instruments
Iossifidhou Xanthipi:Singer
Photos Collection

Ξανθίππη Ιωσηφίδου, Τραπεζούντα - Πόντος (Ηχογράφηση 1930)

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