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Dance, Music, and Song in Heptanese Folk Theatre: The Zakynthian Homilia

2003; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 26; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1081/dnc-120025268

1532-4257

Dhionysios Kardhares, Elias S. Demas,

Diversity and Impact of Dance

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes aThe Heptanese are the seven islands in the Ionian Sea within Greek territory. The islands are, from north to south, Corfu, Paxoi, Leukas, Ithaka, Cefalonia, Zakynthos, and Kythera. bAt first, Carnival festivities did not exceed a week, but toward the mid‐ and late‐seventeenth century they were extended, eventually reaching two months, beginning on January 8 and ending on Tyrine Sunday, the Sunday before Lent. cThe most popular traditional musical instrument on Zakynthos is the niakaron (or anakaron), said to be of Byzantine origin, which is a kind of short zournas. They look the same but the zournas is longer (22–60 cm.) and thus produces a lower‐pitch sound. The shorter niakaron makes the sound carry over longer distances, so that everyone can hear comfortably. On Zakynthos the niakaron and the tambourlon (or daouli) are together called tambourloniakaron for convenience. See the discussion by Simon Karas in the notes for the CD Tragoudhia tes Dhytikes Makedhonias (Songs of Western Macedonia), issued by the Ford Institute in the series For the Preservation of our National Tradition, IBM, SDNM‐189, 1974.