ABSTRACT
The present chapter confers an approach to the vocal style of folk polyphony in Epirus 1 , an area located in north-Western Greece. This vocal manner is common to singers on both sides of the Greek-Albanian border in the form of folk polyphony, antiphony and monophony. 2 The chapter analyses the vocal performance of the polyphonic species and, also, discourses on the impact of institutionalizing the genre into performance-based programmes in higher education systems, such as Western-style conservatories as well as Universities of Greece. Based on case studies and ethnographic data 3 the objective here is not to collect folk songs but rather to examine the vocal execution and illustrate the nature and extent of their pedagogy in higher education.
