Hasapiko

Hasapiko
Music of Greece
General topics
AncientByzantineNéo kýmaPolyphonic song
Genres
EntehnoDimotikaHip hopLaïkoPunkRock
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Classical • NisiotikaRebetikoSkiladiko
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Music festivals Thessaloniki Song Festival
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National anthem "Hymn to Liberty"
Regional music
Related areas Cyprus
Regional styles Aegean Islands • Arcadia • Argos • Crete • Cyclades • Dodecanese Islands • EpirusIonian Islands • Lesbos • Macedonia • PeloponneseThessalyThrace

The Hasapiko (Greek: χασάπικο Greek pronunciation: [xaˈsapiko]), is a Greek folk dance. The dance originated in the Middle Ages as a battle mime with swords performed by the Greek butchers guild, which adopted it from the military of Byzantine era. [1] In Constantinople during the Byzantine times, it was called in Greek μακελλάρικος χορός (makellarikos horos)[citation needed]. Some Greeks, however, reserve the latter term only for the fast version of the dance.

The slow version of the dance is called χασάπικο βαρύ (hasapiko vary) or χασάπικος βαρύς (hasapikos varys) and generally employs a 4/4 tempo. The fast version of the dance uses a 2/4 rhythm. It is variously called γρήγορο χασάπικο, μακελλάριος χορός; χασαποσέρβικο (grigoro hasapiko, makellarios horos, hasaposerviko – the latter a reference to Serbian and other Balkan influences on this version of the dance).

Hasapiko served as one of the bases for the Sirtaki.

See also

Reference

  1. ^ sword dance in Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved July 18, 2010, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online: http://www.search.eb.com.proxy-um.researchport.umd.edu/eb/article-9070677

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