FOLK SONGS FOR VOICE AND PIANO
TWENTY FOLK SONGS
1922
1. From Love my Heart Is Heave (love song)
2. Don’t Torture Me and Make Me Cry (love song)
3. My Despo (love song)
4. Farewell (song from Cyprus)
5. The Price of Kisses (song from the island Chios)
6. Go to Sleep, My Daughter (lullaby)
7. The Bridge of Arta (mason’s song)
8. Black Yemeni (Syrtos dance)
9. Pentozalis (Cretan dance)
Publication:
Zacharias Makris, Athens n.d.
Gaetanos, Athens n.d.
Twenty Folk Songs (Eikosi dimotika tragoudia), n.d. autograph manuscript of “My Despo”, first page of the score. [© MKS]
From Love my Heart is Heavy, a free translation of the Greek title Varia pous’ agapo (lit. How heavily I love you).
Despo, a woman’s name.
The Bridge of Arta (demotic song). For the underlying theme of this folksong see note on Protomastoras.
Yemeni, a woman’s scarf, occasionally worn around the waste, as a coquettish accent to the traditional women’s dress.
[Notes by Maria Voelker-Kamarinea]
