An authentic music registration of an invaluable cultural heritage, the Smyrna¢s Songs, this collection includes songs from Smyrna, the Asia Minor Coast, Constantinople, as well as from the refugees¢ districts of Athens and Piraeus.

250 songs are comprised in the five volumes composing this collection, the heritage of anonymous and famous composers of the past two centuries, songs that might possibly be characterized as traditional, popular, rebetiko, estudantinas, serenade, mane, light songs, etc. Besides scores in European written notation, chords and music modes (makam) are also registered. As much information as it was possible to collect is given for each song, concerning its origin, lyrical and musical variations, also to be found in discography, from the beginning of the previous century and of more recent date. Giorgos Konstantzos, of the Greek Music Archives , is responsible for the collection.

Contents:
1. Ainte Mantalio kai Mantalena (I Mantalio)
2. Athina kai Peraia mou
3. Amanedes na mou poun
4. Apo ligo-ligo
5. Apo ta matia sou Smyrnia
6. Apo ta psila bentenia
7. Apofasisa pouli mou
8. Ach! melachroino
9. Apse kori to fanari
10. Varka gialo
11. Gkiostepelia (agapo mia pantremeni)
12. Englezitsa
13. Den se thelo pia
14. Elenaki Elenaki
15. Elenitsa mou (aman, aman oples)
16. Elliniki apolafsis (san pethano sto karavi)
17. Ta kyparissia
18. Kakourga Elli (i Elli thelei skotoma)
19. Kamomatou (Ta dertia olou tou dounia)
20. Karavi tou Bournova (Braila)
21. Koukla mou esy
22. Kafes (me kafe sou tazo ego)
23. Kordeliotissa
24. Mankiko mou (skertso petachto)
25. Manaki mou, manaki mou
26. M' echoun trelo ta chadia sou (smyrnia)
27. Ma giati de mas to les (bournovalios manes)
28. Me trelanes
29. Mia mavri petra tou gialou (Loula)
30. Bampina
31. Matia mou, matia mou (san pas sta xena)
32. Barmpouni mou thalassino
33. Bournova me krya nera
34. Bournovalia
35. Boufetzis tha pao na gino (i paramana)
36. Bochoris
37. O ouranos ki an skoteiniasei
38. Pali methysmenos eisai (to koutsavaki)
39. Ithela na' mai enas pasas (o pasas)
40. Paraponiara
41. Paraponiariko mou
42. San theleis lires kai flouria
43. San tis Smyrnis to giankini
44. Smyrni me ta perichora
45. Smyrniotopoula kai politissa
46. Sti Smyrni mes' tin Armenia
47. Ta matakia sou pouli mou (kai ti se melei esena)
48. Ta palaia mou vasana
49. Tik - tak
50. Chira n' allaxeis onoma