Irma Kolassi, Maurice Ravel, cinq mélodies populaires grecques

Two important collections of mélodies dOrient were available in France, in the beginning of the 20th century: the collection of BourgaultDucoudray (far east) and the wax cylinders of Hubert Pernot in the Institut du Grec Moderne in the Sorbonne. These 5 songs by Ravel belong to the Pernot collection except song no. 3 (and maybe which comes from the collection published by Pericles Matsas in Constantinople in 1883. Pernot (18701946) was a french hellenist linguist who visited in 189899 Chios i br, br,