The Kings in Epirus - Epic Byzantine Music

Music and vocals by Farya Faraji. Please note that this isn’t reconstructed music from the era, only modern Greek Epirote music with ancient theme. Since my Eastern Roman themed tracks are mostly excuses to delve into the vast regional diversity of Greek music, I chose as a theme the Despotate of Epirus to delve into the music of Epirus, a region renowned for its unusual usage of pentatonic melodies. Pentatonic melodies are ones using only five notes, which is typical of many cultures such as that of the Native Americans or East Asian cultures, instead of seven notes, which is the dominant norm across Greek music. This specific region of the Balkans however is defined by pentatonicism, alongisde another common feature which is the Polyphonic Song of Epirus heard in the background here, a unique form of polyphony found in this region across Greeks, Albanians and Vlachs. I structured the melody to reflect the typical melodic patterns found in the region, and the rythm also follows the typically slow