kleftika (English spelling)

Japanese: kléftika(英語表記)kleftika
kleftika (English spelling)

…Folk instruments in mainland Greece include the violin, lauto, floyera (a shakuhachi-like flute), clarinet, zurna (srunai), and dauli (big drum). Greek folk songs are sung in modern colloquial Greek (dimotiki), but one important genre of narrative song is kléftika. This was sung in praise of the heroic deeds of a bandit called Kleftis who turned the Turks against their rulers during the War of Liberation in the 1820s, and is characterized by a beatless rhythm and a melismatic style of singing in which each syllable is stretched to create ups and downs. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "kléftika" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…ギリシア本土の民俗楽器として,バイオリン,ラウト,フロイエラ(尺八系竪笛),クラリネット,ズルナ(スルナイ),ダウリ(大太鼓)などがある。 ギリシア民謡は現代ギリシア語の口語体(ディモティキ)で歌われるが,物語歌として重要なジャンルにクレフティカkléftikaがある。これは1820年代の解放戦争で,クレフティスと呼ばれた義賊が支配者のトルコ人を敵にまわしての英雄的行為をたたえて歌ったもので,無拍のリズムと各シラブルを引きのばして起伏をつけていくメリスマ的な歌い方を特徴とする。…

※「kléftika」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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