Wedding Songs - τραγούδια του γάμου

[niaven]

Tseligas - I have enclosed a partial list of wedding songs which I thought
you might include in you next round of song request/video lessons. Almost
every Greek wedding starts off with this first song medley by Mentzelopoulos

Ωραία που είναι η νύφη μας , Σήμερα λάμπει ο ουρανός με τον
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeA4g5Ze4G4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPxOoScuRxw OR
Nα ζήσει νύφη κι ο Γαμπρός
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dq3q4Di2kk

Σήμερα Γάμος γίνεται
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcHXNin623w

Είσαι άγγελος Ωραίος
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUt5DS2uMP0

Ας παν να δουν τα μάτια μου
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQtnu_cai9g

Ο Γάμος καλορίζικος
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYV2m4Z0j1Y

Καινούργιος γάμος γίνεται
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9FksbyIrRA

Ας είναι η ώρα η καλή
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf9ZMGE54vg

[tseligas]

Great idea nianen ! Very useful medley! I actually had to learn couple of these songs for n engagement party in January. I will definitely do them as a group of songs after chitown' s request!

Do you like the wedding song I have in the sheet music area? It is one of my favorite songs and if I remember correctly it is from Macedonia. Do you by any chance have chords for these songs. I want to start including these in case someone has a friend with a guitar nd he can play along.

[niaven]

Tseligas - It is interesting to me that you would like this particular wedding song.
A few of my favourite versions. As you listen to the songs - picture yourself sitting
at tables with the entire family and relatives toasting the wedding couple and their
parents outside under the fresh mountain air.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL8uX-bKTD0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjKmB8Nt6jI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkyy59T_sN8

Kerna Mas was originally a wedding song that was sung (polyphonic) in eastern Epirus and in the Arvanitika horia in Western Macedonia. Now of course, it is pan-Macedonian and a favourite. The song is about traditions during the wedding festival. It is also known as
Σ΄ ΑΥΤΟ ΤΟ ΣΠΙΤΙ - S' AFTO TO SPITI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S_DHk3Td...detailpage

How did this song become on of your favourites?

I will search my files for chords and see whether they are available. It is still
considered a local wedding song and as such sheet music is difficult to obtain.

[tseligas]

Niaven, I fell in love with this song when I first heard it because as you say describes traditions and it was in a sense born from our people!

I actually didn't know about it and then a member vlaxopoula asked me to transcribe the music.
Not sure I I have asked you, where are you from Niaven? What's your level of clarinet? You seem to have a global knowledge of music.

[chitowngreek]

tseligas ,niaven, here in chicago all bands play ( PATINADA THS NHFIS) I HAVE HEARD it, i cannot get the melody in my head,but maybe when i see it played and written in note form i just might get it . at least we as memebers of this web site we might learn a few wedding songs .

[niaven]

Chitowngreek - you are probably referring to the song
played while leading the bride to the church know as patinada apo to gamou. Here it is played here by another good clarinet player Y. Goritsas. Or is it on the others
that I have included below.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N5W9nZZ2Ww
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUC-PNeDiqI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v0I4cWnW-Q

Here is the song Dari-Dari-favourite of the islands also known as
ΝΑ ΖΗΣΕΙ Η ΝΥΦΗ ΚΙ Ο ΓΑΜΠΡΟΣ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbNLNVCTX08

OR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUPkV9mUwF0

[niaven]

Tseligas - my family hails from Western Macedonia/Eastern Epirus - I have been playing demotika for the last 10 years and I have had limited professional instruction
from a Greek clarinetist and consider myself an intermediate player. I studied music and piano in my early years.
One of the interesting aspects of growing up in Northern Greece is that you are introduced to much more music variety than anywhere else in Greece.
For example, at a dance/wedding/social function you are apt to hear the following

Kalamatiano
Syrto
Tsamiko
Fast Hasapiko/Hasaposerviko/Gaida
Tik
Tsifteteli
Epirotika (sta Dio/sta Tria)
Pustseno
Raiko/Zaramo
Elenitsa
Berance

[chitowngreek]

the first 2 are the ones we play most often here . also pay attention to goritsas , how the clarinet sounds with no amplification , echo etc ,

[tseligas]

Very interesting Niaven! I never thought that you can have all these dances in one spot. I have been also a dance instructor for the past 8 years And the only place where you have all these together is in a performance!!!

Do people actually know how to dance all these ? In Peloponnesus the last years everything is kalamatoano tsamiko. Syrto has also been kalamatianized!

[chitowngreek]

we have to agree that the musicians, from epirus are very well versed and they know there music, that you cannot take away from them .