ABSTRACT
The author finds the music of Cypriot childhood and by demonstrating the games he had learnt at the urban school, he was able to make way through these communities of practice. The girls at the rural site held socially accepted authority as the acknowledged 'masters' and game leaders. They preferred to make appointments with him, in their own neighbourhoods in the afternoons, because, as Christiana explained. The pentatonic scale is also found in collected Greek Cypriot children's musical games. Most chants use quarter and eighth notes with dotted, syncopated and triplet text rhythms which develop increasingly complex rhythmic relations with the movements. Harwood and Marsh have proposed a dialectical relationship between the mass media and children's musical cultures, which they say gives rise to new forms of games and the appropriation of musical and textual material from popular music sources. Cypriot traditional songs and musical games for and by children have not been documented in Cypriot folklore scholarship.
