Museum
Home of Polyphony
Shtëpia e Polifonisë
Gjirokastër, Albania
About Home of Polyphony
Iso-Polyphony is a traditional form of Albanian folk music in which multi-line singing is accompanied by choral drone parts, and which has many regional and formal variations. It is included in UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage list. Albanian Iso-Polyphony is considered to have its roots in the many-voiced vajtim, the southern Albanian traditional lamentation of the dead. The instrumental expression of the Albanian Iso-Polyphony evolved into the Albanian kaba.
