111 Cultural Post #2

[Daniel Matthew Kunath]

To my ears, Greek music largely sounds the same. To help train my ears differently, Smaragda and I studied songs for a week or two. One of the hallmarks of Greek folk music is the        Μπουζούκι. This is an instrument which resembles and sounds like a mandolin, but it has a neck as long as a guitar. We studied several songs, but spent special times analyzing the lyrics of one called “Αγγελέ Μου”, and a song called “Το Κορίτσι”, a pop song and an alternative song, respectively, to compare the different genres in Greek music. Maybe all Greek music doesn’t sound the same, but it is much harder to hear differences when I can’t understand the lyrics.