The paper applies the Parataxis framework to a 1982 recording of the Páno Chorós dance of Olymbos, Karpathos, played by Giannis Pavlidis. Its starting point is the ghléndi (fest): the Páno Chorós, the culmination of the dancing, offers an opportunity to renegotiate one’s social status, and the musician is not only an instrumentalist but also the one who runs the ghléndi and guards its unwritten laws. Pavlidis, an outstanding lira and tsaboúna player, lived in Rhodes and brought elements of the Dodecanesian and Cretan traditions into the village repertoire. Systematic analysis distinguishes three groups of music segments, related to the tsaboúna, the lira and the violin; musicians from Olymbos commented on the recording in 2009 in the Parataxis web database, and their perspective evaluates the three groups.
Presentation. The paper by Haris Sarris, Tassos Kolydas and Michalis Kostakis was presented at the Fifth Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM09) in Paris (26–29 October 2009) and published in its proceedings. A later version of the work was published in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies (2010).