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Pentozali Dance
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Πεντοζάλης

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Information

  • Region: Crete
  • Type: Instrumental
  • Rhythm: 2 beats
  • Dance style: Pentozalis
  • Duration: 01:32

Collaborators

  • Lute: Pavlos Papadakis
  • Spoons: Aspasia Papadaki

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  • Ethnologie Vivante: Grèce

Notes

English translation is not available. The original text is in French:

Cette danse est une des plus caractéristiques et représentatives de Crète. Autrefois, elle était exécutée par des guer-riers armés, et c'est pourquoi encore aujourd'hui elle est dansée uniquement par des hommes.
Les Crétois, grands de taille, bruns, à l'allure svelte, ont une personnalité marquée et un caractère fier et altier. Ils sont toujours prêts à défendre l'honneur de la famille, leur dignité et leur patrie.

Cet aspect de la personnalité du Crétois a donné naissance à divers chants et danses, comme ce viril "pentozali ". Celui-ci doit son nom aux cinq pas qui en compo- îe schéma chorégraphique de base (en grec, pente - cinq et zalo, en dialecte crétois = pas de danse).
Le "pentozali" de ce disque est exécuté par un laghouto, remplaçant ici la lira, et par des cuillers de bois, qui, suivant l'ancienne tradition, en scandent le rythme.

Mélodie: Mode dorien
Rythme; 2/4

Recording information

Domna Samiou taped the tune in Chania, in 1965.

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