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Funeral lament of the Kutsovlachs

Sample
Song Information
Kind:Demotic
Category:Laments (songs)
Area: Metsovo (Epirus)
Nationality:Greek
Language:Arumanian - Vlach dialect
Dance:-
Scale:-
Collector:Dietrich Wolf
Recording Place:Metsovo (Epirus), in the house of the family of the deceased, by the coffin
Recording Date:19/09/1977
Recording Responsible:Dietrich Wolf
Duration:1:26
Other characteristics:Performed by natives, A capella, Polyphonic
Register Information
Register date:22/05/1995
Register:Moraitis Thanassis
Comment:This recording was made during a lament, about 1 hour before the coffin was taken from the house of the deceased to the church for the Mass for the Dead.
Storage media:Orient - Okzident (LP 79)
Artists/Instruments
Women from Metsovo:Lament

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