Roza Eskenazi was a great Rebetiko singer who maintained a rich and long standing career that
was accompanied by a rich discography that included, apart from many rebetiko songs, a large
number of songs deriving from Greek tradition.
This publication is a critical account, which includes forty (40) different scores: twenty (20) come
straight from her rebetiko repertoire of the pre-war period (1931-1937) with the rest deriving
from her traditional songs repertoire, divided in two sets of ten (10) scores each, covering her
pre-war (1933-1938) and post-war (1954-1955) periods. Each song is accompanied by a
second score that includes all the variations that Eskenazi introduced.
The results that emerge from these transcriptions offer information about the quality of her
voice, her technique and interpretation skills and her artistic evolution during those 25 years
that are covered in this research
