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Dromoi (
Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
: δρόμοι "ways"; singular: δρόμος) is the word for a melody type of the
Greek music The music of Greece is as diverse and celebrated as its history. Greek music separates into two parts: Greek traditional music and Byzantine music. These compositions have existed for millennia: they originated in the Byzantine period and Gree ...
system. In Greek music theory, dromoi is not only characterized by a sequence of phonemes,{{cn, date=March 2013 but also individual characteristics such as specific sounds that attract the neighboring sounds and concrete ways to jump from one dromos to another. These apply in general and on the way of
rebetiko Rebetiko ( el, ρεμπέτικο, ), plural rebetika ( ), occasionally transliterated as rembetiko or rebetico, is a term used today to designate originally disparate kinds of urban Greek music which have come to be grouped together since the s ...
music.


References

* Dimitris Mystakidis, "Εν χορδαίς", Thessaloniki, 2004. Greek music Rebetiko Modes (music)