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	Acrinet
		It is important to note that we should put the label acritic to songs that describe specific heroes of the regional aristocracy and not to just any song, regardless of content, born in a frontier region.
		Precursors to the acritic songs are thought to be the bylines, Russian epic songs, attached to the oral tradition.
		Guy Saunier, Professor at the Sorbonne, who holds the acritic songs to be a subcategory of Greek heroic folksongs, illuminates the symbolic aspect of some of the protagonists of the acritic cycle.
	www.acrinet.net /en/sined_paris_21-3-2003.shtml (1121 words)

	Acritic songs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The acritic songs (Greek: ακριτικά τραγούδια — frontiersmen songs) are the heroic or epic poetry that emerged from 10th century Byzantium, inspired by the almost continuous state of warfare with the Arabs in eastern Asia Minor.
		The majority of academics trace the origins of Byzantine acritic romance in the oral epic poetry of the 9th - 10th century.
		Acritis, as a representation of acritic poetry, is greatly influential in modern Greek literature.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Acritic_songs (992 words)

	Acrinet
		Hence, the coverage ranged from Cyrpus' acritic tradition to that of Spain, which includes that of the Slavs' and that of Italy's, at a time period when the latter constituted a frontier.
		She includes the research on the acritic heritage in wider topics regarding identity and historical transformations.
		Through the interdisciplinary approach the acritic song phenomenon may be better understood and its importance for the modern world may be realized thanks to the questions raised in the context of ACRINET.
	www.acrinet.net /en/sined_athens_24-11-2002.shtml (1386 words)

	High Middle Ages Encyclopedia Article @ Domains.Karr.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The most significant secular movement was that of the troubadours, who arose in the south of France in the late 11th century.
		The troubadours were often itinerant, came from all classes of society, and wrote songs on a variety of topics, especially courtly love.
		Their style went on to influence the trouvères of northern France, the minnesingers of Germany, and the composers of secular music of the trecento in northern Italy.
	my-domain-names-for-sale.com /encyclopedia/High_Middle_Ages (3357 words)

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		These characteristics and the same composition technique are shared as well by the oldest known narrative song ‘Daskalojannis’, which tells the story of a rebellion of the Cretans in Sfakiá in 1770, in an epic of 1034 lines written down shortly afterwards, as by the shorter and more recent compositions.
		These songs are short (on the average just ten lines), mainly composed in the dekapentasíllavo metre, unrhymed and extremely crystallised in their form and poetics.
		Even though rizítika songs are known nowadays also in other parts of the island, due to performances in concerts and live music clubs and access to recorded material, their natural performance takes place mainly in the villages of the original area in the prefecture of Haniá.
	www.troianova.com /article2mantinades.htm (9664 words)

	Leros Songs
		Each tune is meant to express one sole thing: the unique aroma of every moment in man's life: love and affection, fun and entertainment, wedding, self-sarcasm, sleep, emigration and death.
		Exhausted by dancing, they sit around the table and absorb the pink of sunrise in melancholy love distichs (two-verse stanzas): a little bird at dawn was sadly weeping, for it had pain in the heart-, and its wing was chopped (CD 1, #14).
		This category includes sarcastic songs of the Carnival, as in down at the seashore sands, crabs hold a wedding; I was invited too, pasta gone sour delightfully played and sung by bagpiper Dimitris Lindos, who can tell time by just looking up at the stars.
	www.leros.org /leros-songs/index.htm (848 words)

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		The Arab incursions into Byzantine territory are the context within which the first part of the tale unfolds, the events in the part of the narrative concerning the family history of the central hero seem to be located beyond a climate of conflict.
		Digenis continued to be read and enjoyed in later centuries, as the text survives in various versions dating to as late as the 17th century.
		The epic tale of Digenis Acritas gave rise also to a cycle of Acritic songs, some of which survived today.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Digenis_Acritas (769 words)

	Eras of Elegance - Art, Literature and Music in the Medieval Era
		During the middle period of the Medieval era, the music of the troubadors and trouvères was a vernacular tradition of monophonic secular song, probably accompanied by instruments, sung by professional, occasionally itinerant, musicians who were as skilled as poets as they were singers and instrumentalists.
		The language of the troubadors was Occitan (also known as the langue d'oc, or Provençal); the language of the trouvères was Old French (also known as langue d'oil).
		The period of the troubadors ended abruptly with the Albigensian Crusade, the fierce campaign by Pope Innocent III to eliminate the Cathar heresy (and appropriate the wealth of a defenseless people) which effectively exterminated the entire civilization.
	www.erasofelegance.com /history/medievalarts.html (1756 words)

	Internet Archive: Details: Grateful Dead Live at O'Keefe Center on 1967-08-04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		And the band is right with him and probably the tightest they've been on this song.
		The song is Viola Lee Blues and he's not gonna go for the bait.
		After the climax is reached in the final jam and the song reprises itself, Jerry milks it much longer than usual before going back into the final vocal run.
	www.archive.org /details/gd67-08-04.sbd.hanno.16752.sbeok.shnf (854 words)

	CULTURE OF GREECE : Encyclopedia Entry
		The leader of the dance was called the koryphaios or chorolektes, and it was he who began the song and ensured that the circle was maintained.
		As they danced, they sang, either set songs or extemporized ones, sometimes in unison, sometimes in refrain, repeating the verse sung by the lead dancer.
		A range of domestically and internationally known composers and performers across the musical spectrum have found success in modern Greece, while traditional Greek music is noted as a mixture of influences from indigenous culture with those of west and east.
	bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Culture_of_Greece (5992 words)

	Performing arts
		Liberally laced with elements of Cypriot folk song, Barnett’s music mirrors the moods evoked by its various literary influences--love for a favorite aunt, the joy of setting out on a journey, loneliness and the loss of friends, and the deep and intractable divisions of the island.
		Michalis Tterlikkas is an acclaimed interpreter of demotic songs of Cyprus.
		Research into the demotic songs of Cyprus began quite early on, with examples of this particular genre encountered as far back as in the manuscripts of Dionysios Solomos.
	www.moufflon.com.cy /performing_arts1.htm (1514 words)

	: reviews :
		It was only a dissapointment because of these 2 songs' early live release on the bootleg "America's Bastard" in which, in my opinion All the Drugs was soooo much greater in the vocals, and without the guitar drop-outs.
		I beg them to remix the song for a single release, and Courtney could surpass "Teen Spirit" forever.
		I just keep imagining that song on some kick ass movie preview in movie theaters, where the audiance is forced to listen to it, and it just made that movie that the song was "promoting"seem so much greater.
	www.moonwashedrose.com /acritic.html (539 words)

	A CONTRIBUTION TO FOLK SONGS RESEARCH ON POMACS IN THE AREA OF XANTHE (THRACE / GREECE)
		We translate and publish here some folk songs we recorded in the Pomac villages in the prefecture of Xanthe; the existing records and material, found inmanuscripts at the Centre for Greek Folklore Research, of the Academy of Athens and the Folklore Seminars conducted by prof.
		The field work assisted the correct vocal recording, the exact translation and the proper interpretation of the songs and their details; an earlier recording had passed that over.
		In this way the songs were more comprehensible, examined in a totally structural-functional way while simultaneously certain deductions were inferred that may help further research on the same topic.
	alex.eled.duth.gr /dromena/varvounis/8.htm (1822 words)

	Medieval literature Summary
		The subject of "courtly love" became important in the 11th century, especially in the Romance languages (in the French, Spanish, Provençal, Galician and Catalan languages, most notably) and Greek, where the traveling singers—troubadors—made a living from their songs.
		The writings of the troubadors are often associated with unrequited longing, but this is not entirely accurate (see aubade, for instance).
		The Song of Roland and Digenis Acritas) which deal with the Matter of France and the Acritic songs respectively, courtly romances in the tradition of the roman courtois which deal with the Matter of Britain and the Matter of Rome achieved great and lasting popularity.
	www.bookrags.com /Medieval_literature (1747 words)

	Dolmetsch Online - Music Theory Online - Ornamentation
		The problem, for today's performer, is that ornamentation is one of those elements that varies from period to period and from country to country; indeed, it varied with the taste of the person writing about it.
		Among melodies, some songs are more agreeable than others, although all are equally well modulated.
		A voice that is douce and supple will decorate its songs with ornaments that are agréable; a voice that is emotional and strong will animate its songs with intonations that convey passion.
	www.dolmetsch.com /musictheory23.htm (9985 words)

	Digenis Akritas
		The Arab incursions into Byzantine territory are the context within which the first part of the tale unfolds, the events in the part of the narrative concerning the family history of the central hero seem to be located beyond a climate of conflict.
		Digenis continued to be read and enjoyed in later centuries, as the text survives in various versions dating to as late as the 17th century.
		The epic tale of Digenis Akritas gave rise also to a cycle of Acritic songs, some of which survived today.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Medieval/DigenisAkritas.html (1157 words)

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