Was the music somposed directly for the screen?
The music was composed directly for the screen by Mikis Theodorakis or it was taken from another place?
And does someone know a page where I can hear the music?
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As far as I know Mikis Theodorakis wrote the music directly for this movie. However - the main title "Zorba's Dance" was made up from 2 of his earlier compositions, the slow part being "Strose To Stroma Sou" (Make Your Bed For Two)and the fast part being "Kritikos Choros" (Cretian Dance). Soundtrack-album has been available on several LPs and CD-releases, however being very short in duration apprx. 25 minutes, on several albums dialogue from the movie has been used as fillers, - hope this was of some help.
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shareThe famous "Zorba" theme initiated the "syrtaki" dance which is currently considered one of the trademarks of Greece, though it is rather modern and it's closely related with the film. Syrtaki is a mix of various folkloric Greek dances and to its current internationally popular form did not exist in Greece before Mikis Theodorakis' composition. You can download "Zorba the Greek" theme in various P2P systems, while there are numerous remakes of it, even techno-remixes!
shareYes, syrtaki is not a Greek folk dance. Syrtaki was created just for the movie and it was based in the folk dance Hasapiko.
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