Nisiotika

Music of Greece

General topics
Ancient music Byzantine music Opera Greek musical system Greek musical instruments Greek dances Worldwide
Genres
Church music (Byzantine) Classical music Ionian School Greek folk Laïko Rock Hip Hop Punk Greek New Wave (Neo kyma)
Specific forms
Contemporary Entehno Nisiotika Rebetiko Skiladiko
Media and performance
Music awards	Arion Awards MAD Video Music Awards Pop Corn Music Awards
Music charts	Greek Albums Chart Foreign Albums Chart Singles Chart
Music festivals	Athens Festival Epidaurus Festival Olympus Festival Thessaloniki Song Festival
Music media	Difono MAD TV (MAD World, Blue) MTV Greece
Nationalistic and patriotic songs
National anthem	"Hymn to Liberty"
Regional music
Related areas	Cyprus, Pontus, Constantinople, South Italy
Regional styles	Aegean Islands Central Greece Crete Epirus (polyphonic song) Ionian Islands Macedonia Peloponnese Thessaly Thrace

Nisiotika (Greek: νησιώτικα) is the name of the songs and dances of Greek islands including a variety of Greek styles, played by ethnic Greeks in Greece, Cyprus, Australia, the United States and elsewhere.

The Aegean Islands have a well known folk dance tradition, which comes from the dances of ancient Greece like: syrtos, sousta and ballos. The lyre is the dominant folk instrument and other like laouto, violin, askomandoura with Greek characteristics vary widely. In the Aegean, the violin and the Cretan lyra are very widespread Greek musical instruments.

Famous representative musicians and performers of Nisiotika include: Mariza Koch as credited with reviving the field in the 1970s, Yiannis Parios, Domna Samiou, the Konitopouloi family (including Giorgos Konitopoulos, Vangelis Konitopoulos, Eirini Konitopoulou, Nasia and Stella Konitopoulou) and others.

There are also prominent elements of Cretan music on the Dodecanese Islands and Cyclades.

Greek folk dances of Nisiotika include:

References

Musipedia: Νησιώτικα

Greek dances

Ancient	Angelica Antistrophe Carpaea Choreia Cordax Dionysiakos Hyporchema Korybantes Pyrrhichios Syrtos Tarantella

Modern	Ai Georgis Aise Angaliastos Antikristos Antipatitis Atsapat Ballos Byzantine dance Cerigotikos Dimitroula Dipat Diplos Horos Diavaratikos Endeka Kozanis Fisounis Fourlana Gaitanaki Genovefa Gerakina Gerontikos Giknas Hasapiko Hatzichristos Horos Ikariotikos Isios Kalamatianos Kalymnikos Kamilierikos Kanella Kangeli Kapitan Louka Kastorianos Katsabadianos Kavodorikos Kechagiadikos Kerkiraikos Kinigitos Kleftiko Kleistos Kochari Koftos Koutsos Lafina Lambri Kamara Lasithiotikos Lefkaditikos Lerikos Levantinikos Leventikos Loulouvikos Makedonia Makedonikos antikristos Makrinitsa dance Maleviziotis Mandilatos Maniatikos Metsovitikos Mihanikos Milia Monodiplos Mpougatsas Nizamikos Ntames Ntournerakia O Nikolos Omal Omorfoula Opa Palamakia Partalos Pentozali Patinada Pidikhtos Pilioritikos Pirgousikos Pizzica Plataniotiko Nero Podaraki Poustseno Priniotis Proskinitos Pyrrhichios Rhoditikos Rodo Rougatsiarikos Serra Sianos Simeris i Simeriani Sirmpa Sirtaki Sousta Sperveri Stamoulo Stavrotos Strose Vayia Syrtos Ta Xila Tamzara Tapeinos Horos Tatsia Thessalikos Tis Triandafilias Ta Fila Tranos Choros Trata Trizalis Tromakton Tsakonikos Tsamiko Tsestos Tsifteteli Tsiniaris Yurukikos Zacharoula Zaramo Zeibekiko Zervodexios Zervos Zonaradiko

Music of Eastern and Southeastern Europe

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¹ Transcontinental country. ² Considered to be completely in Southwest Asia but having socio-political connections with Europe.

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Nisiotika

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