Music of Thessaly, is the music of the geographic and historical region of Thessaly

Thessaly

Thessaly is a traditional geographical region and an administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient region of the same name. Before the Greek Dark Ages, Thessaly was known as Aeolia, and appears thus in Homer's Odyssey....

  in Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

. Folk dances from Thessaly are slow and stately, and include: Kalamatianos

Kalamatianos

The Kalamatianós Dance is one of the best known dances of Greece. It is popular Greek folkdance throughout Greece, Cyprus and internationally and is often performed at many social gatherings worldwide. As is the case with most Greek folk dances, it is danced in circle with a counterclockwise...

, Thessalikos, Dionysiakos

Dionysiakos

Dionysiakos is a form of Greek dances and customs from ancient Greece.Dionysiakos and it's forms revived today in many areas of Greece like Peloponnese, central Greece and Crete with the most well-known the Phallus festival one, in the area of Tyrnavos, Larissa...

, koftos

Koftos

Koftos is a lively Greek dance typical of the areas of Thessaly, Epirus and central Greece. "Koftos" in Greek means to cut and the name of the dance comes from the periodic interruptions in the music/tune. When the music stops, the dancers yell "Hey", and you can also put your arms up, down, or...

, Sirtaki

Sirtaki

Sirtaki or syrtaki is a popular dance of Greek origin, choreographed, by Giorgos Provias for the 1964 film Zorba the Greek. It is not a traditional Greek folkdance, but a mixture of the slow and fast versions of the hasapiko dance...

, Kalamatiano

Kalamatianó

Kalamatianó is a type of Greek folk music associated with a dance sharing its name. Originating in the southern Greek port city of Kalamata, its most recognizable feature is its asymmetrical time signature of 7/8 time, meaning that there are seven beats per measure, generally subdivided into two...

, Tsamikos, kleistos

Kleistos

Kleistos horos is a circle dance from Thessaly. The dance is performed in a circle with the men leading and the women following in the circle. It is usually exhibited to songs like "'Ai San Alogo de me Varanane!" The dance has two parts to it, slow and fast. The handhold for the first part is...

, kangeli, gaitanaki

Gaitanaki

Gaitanaki is a form of a Greek folk dance from Thessaly, Greece. It is a circle dance. It is also very widespread in Epirus....

, tsamikos, Pilioritikos

Pilioritikos

Pilioritikos is a kind of a Greek folk dance from Pilio, , Greece....

, svarniara, sta tria, karagouna, Kleistos

Kleistos

Kleistos horos is a circle dance from Thessaly. The dance is performed in a circle with the men leading and the women following in the circle. It is usually exhibited to songs like "'Ai San Alogo de me Varanane!" The dance has two parts to it, slow and fast. The handhold for the first part is...

, zeibekiko

Zeibekiko

Zeibekiko is a Greek folk dance with a rhythmic pattern of 9/4 or else 9/8 . The name of the dance derives from the Zeibek warriors of Anatolia. It is danced by one person only and is of free choreographic structure, which is often refers to ancient Greek tragedy...

, Rougatsiarikos

Rougatsiarikos

Rougatsiarikos is a kind of a Greek traditional dance from Thessaly, Greece.-References:...

, Tsamiko of Deskati, antikrystos

Antikrystos

Antikristos is a Greek, Armenian and Assyrian folk dance Antikristos is a Greek, Armenian and Assyrian folk dance Antikristos is a Greek, Armenian and Assyrian folk dance (αντικρυστός in Greek language translates as "αντικρύζω" ("anti-face", i.e., face-to-face). Antikristos, has similarities...

 and galanogalani.

Also, every year in Tyrnavos

Tyrnavos

Tyrnavos is a municipality in the Larissa regional unit, of the Thessaly region of Greece. Tyrnavos is the prefecture's third largest community within the Larissa prefecture. The town is near the mountains and the Thessalian Plain. The river Titarisios, a tributary of the Pineios, flows through...

 occurs the Phallus Festival before Easter

Easter

Easter is the central feast in the Christian liturgical year. According to the Canonical gospels, Jesus rose from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion. His resurrection is celebrated on Easter Day or Easter Sunday...

, a pagan fertility festival in honour of the god of Mount Olympus

Mount Olympus

Mount Olympus is the highest mountain in Greece, located on the border between Thessaly and Macedonia, about 100 kilometres away from Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest city. Mount Olympus has 52 peaks. The highest peak Mytikas, meaning "nose", rises to 2,917 metres...

, Dionysus

Dionysus

Dionysus was the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness and ecstasy in Greek mythology. His name in Linear B tablets shows he was worshipped from c. 1500—1100 BC by Mycenean Greeks: other traces of Dionysian-type cult have been found in ancient Minoan Crete...

which locates in ancient Greece and is one of the most famous worldwide.
There is also, a long-standing tradition of a cappella

A cappella

A cappella music is specifically solo or group singing without instrumental sound, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. It is the opposite of cantata, which is accompanied singing. A cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato...

 music in Thessaly

Thessaly

Thessaly is a traditional geographical region and an administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient region of the same name. Before the Greek Dark Ages, Thessaly was known as Aeolia, and appears thus in Homer's Odyssey....

, including in dance music

Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...

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