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Music of Crete

Index Music of Crete

The music of Crete (Κρητική μουσική), also called kritika (κρητικά.), refers to traditional forms of Greek folk music prevalent on the island of Crete in Greece. [1]

99 relations: A cappella, Alekos Karavitis, Anatolia, Angaliastos, Antonios Katinaris, Antonis Papadakis, Askomandoura, Assonance, Ballad stanza, Ballos, Bouzouki, Byzantine Empire, Byzantine music, Caesura, Calabrian lira, Captain Michalis, Chainides, Chania, Chord (music), Classical guitar, Cretan Greek, Cretan lyra, Crete, Crusades, Davul, Domna Samiou, Dromoi, Erotokritos, Fall of Constantinople, Fiddle, Folk music, Fourteener (poetry), Francisco Leontaritis, Franks, Gadulka, Genoa, Giorgis Koutsourelis, Giorgos Xylouris, Greece, Greek language, Greek musical instruments, Hemistich, Heterophony, Iamb (poetry), Istanbul, Iviron, Kalamatianos, Kemençe of the Black Sea, Kostas Mountakis, Kostas Papadakis, ..., Kuşadası, Laouto, Last Words (film), Lira da braccio, Loudovikos ton Anogeion, Lyre, Mandolin, Manos Hatzidakis, Mantinada, Metre (poetry), Michael Cacoyannis, Michalis Kounelis, Mikis Theodorakis, Mode (music), Monk, Mount Athos, Music of ancient Greece, Music of Greece, Nikos Kazantzakis, Nikos Xilouris, Ntames, Oud, Patras, Pentozali, Persian people, Pidikhtos, Pierre Belon, Piraeus, Political verse, Power chord, Psarantonis, Rebetiko, Rethymno, Ross Daly, Smyrna, Souravli, Sousta, Steel-string acoustic guitar, Syrtos, Taqsim, Thanassis Skordalos, Trade route, Trizalis, Venice, Violin, Werner Herzog, Yannis Markopoulos, Zorba the Greek, Zorba the Greek (film). Expand index (49 more) »

A cappella

A cappella (Italian for "in the manner of the chapel") music is specifically group or solo singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way.

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Alekos Karavitis

Alekos Karavitis (Αλέκος Καραβίτης, 1904–1975) was born in Aktounta, a small village in the region of Aghios Vasileios, prefecture of Rethymnon in Crete.

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Anatolia

Anatolia (Modern Greek: Ανατολία Anatolía, from Ἀνατολή Anatolḗ,; "east" or "rise"), also known as Asia Minor (Medieval and Modern Greek: Μικρά Ἀσία Mikrá Asía, "small Asia"), Asian Turkey, the Anatolian peninsula, or the Anatolian plateau, is the westernmost protrusion of Asia, which makes up the majority of modern-day Turkey.

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Angaliastos

Angaliastos (αγκαλιαστός), is a kind of Greek folk dance from Crete, Greece.

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Antonios Katinaris

Antonios Katinaris (Αντώνιος Κατινάρης) (1931 – 28 October 1999) was a Greek musician.

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Antonis Papadakis

Antonis Papadakis, or Kareklas (1893–1980) was a Cretan musician and famous for his superb lyra performance.

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Askomandoura

The askomandoura (ασκομαντούρα) is a type of bagpipe played as a traditional instrument on the Greek island of Crete, similar to the tsampouna.

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Assonance

Assonance is a resemblance in the sounds of words or syllables either between their vowels (e.g., meat, bean) or between their consonants (e.g., keep, cape).

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Ballad stanza

In poetry, a Ballad stanza is the four-line stanza, known as a quatrain, most often found in the folk ballad.

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Ballos

The Ballos Sirtos (Μπάλος) (from the Italian ballo via Latin "ballo" which derives from the Greek verb "βαλλίζω" ballizo, "to dance, to jump"), is one of the best known Greek folk island dances in Greece.

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Bouzouki

The bouzouki (also buzuki; μπουζούκι; plural bouzoukia μπουζούκια) is a musical instrument popular in Greece that was brought there in the 1900s by Greek immigrants from Asia Minor, and quickly became the central instrument to the rebetiko genre and its music branches.

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Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire and Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul, which had been founded as Byzantium).

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Byzantine music

Byzantine music is the music of the Byzantine Empire.

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Caesura

An example of a caesura in modern western music notation. A caesura (. caesuras or caesurae; Latin for "cutting"), also written cæsura and cesura, is a break in a verse where one phrase ends and the following phrase begins.

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Calabrian lira

The Calabrian lira (lira Calabrese) is a traditional musical instrument characteristic of some areas of Calabria, region in southern Italy.

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Captain Michalis

Captain Michalis (Ο Καπετάν Μιχάλης) is a 1953 novel by the Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis.

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Chainides

Chainides (Χαΐνηδες) is a Cretan folk music group who are inspired by the vast legacy of traditional Cretan music and whose lyrics borrow words from the Cretan Greek dialect.

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Chania

Chania (Χανιά,, Venetian: Canea, Ottoman Turkish: Hanya) is the second largest city of Crete and the capital of the Chania regional unit.

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Chord (music)

A chord, in music, is any harmonic set of pitches consisting of two or more (usually three or more) notes (also called "pitches") that are heard as if sounding simultaneously.

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Classical guitar

The classical guitar (also known as concert guitar, classical acoustic, nylon-string guitar, or Spanish guitar) is the member of the guitar family used in classical music.

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Cretan Greek

Cretan Greek, or the Cretan dialect (κρητική διάλεκτος), is a variety of Modern Greek spoken in Crete and by the Cretan diaspora.

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Cretan lyra

The Cretan lyra (Κρητική λύρα) is a Greek pear-shaped, three-stringed bowed musical instrument, central to the traditional music of Crete and other islands in the Dodecanese and the Aegean Archipelago, in Greece.

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Crete

Crete (Κρήτη,; Ancient Greek: Κρήτη, Krḗtē) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica.

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Crusades

The Crusades were a series of religious wars sanctioned by the Latin Church in the medieval period.

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Davul

The davul or atabal or tabl is a large double-headed drum that is played with mallets.

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Domna Samiou

Domna Samiou (Δόμνα Σαμίου; 12 October 1928 – 10 March 2012, ekathimerini.com, March 12, 2012.) was a prominent Greek researcher and performer of Greek folk music.

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Dromoi

Dromoi (Greek: δρόμοι "ways"; singular: δρόμος) is the word for a melody type of the Greek music system.

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Erotokritos

Erotokritos (Ἐρωτόκριτος) is a romance composed by Vikentios (''Vitsentzos, "Vincenzo", Vincent'') Kornaros in early 17th century Crete.

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Fall of Constantinople

The Fall of Constantinople (Ἅλωσις τῆς Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, Halōsis tēs Kōnstantinoupoleōs; İstanbul'un Fethi Conquest of Istanbul) was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by an invading Ottoman army on 29 May 1453.

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Fiddle

A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Fourteener (poetry)

In poetry, a fourteener is a line consisting of 14 syllables, which are usually made of seven iambic feet for which the style is also called iambic heptameter.

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Francisco Leontaritis

Francisco Leontaritis or Francesco Londarit or Francesco Londarit, Franciscus Londariti, Leondaryti, Londaretus, Londaratus or Londaritus (1518-1572) was a Greek composer, singer and hymnographer from today's Heraklion of the Venetian-dominated Crete (Candia) at the Renaissance age.

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Franks

The Franks (Franci or gens Francorum) were a collection of Germanic peoples, whose name was first mentioned in 3rd century Roman sources, associated with tribes on the Lower and Middle Rhine in the 3rd century AD, on the edge of the Roman Empire.

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Gadulka

The gadulka (Гъдулка) is a traditional Bulgarian bowed string instrument.

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Genoa

Genoa (Genova,; Zêna; English, historically, and Genua) is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy.

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Giorgis Koutsourelis

Composer Giorgis Koutsourelis was born at Kissamos, Crete in 1914.

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Giorgos Xylouris

Giorgos Xylouris (Γιώργoς Ξυλούρης, born September 25, 1965), also known as Psarogiorgis, is a Cretan laouto player and singer.

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Greece

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Greek language

Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, elliniká, "Greek", ελληνική γλώσσα, ellinikí glóssa, "Greek language") is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

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Greek musical instruments

Greek musical instruments were grouped under the general term of Lyre, all developments from the original construction of a tortoise shell with two branching horns, having also a cross piece to which the strings were attached.The strings varied in number from an original three to ten or even more in the later period, like the Byzantine era.

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Hemistich

A hemistich (via Latin from Greek ἡμιστίχιον, from ἡμι- "half" and στίχος "verse") is a half-line of verse, followed and preceded by a caesura, that makes up a single overall prosodic or verse unit.

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Heterophony

In music, heterophony is a type of texture characterized by the simultaneous variation of a single melodic line.

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Iamb (poetry)

An iamb or iambus is a metrical foot used in various types of poetry.

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Istanbul

Istanbul (or or; İstanbul), historically known as Constantinople and Byzantium, is the most populous city in Turkey and the country's economic, cultural, and historic center.

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Iviron

Monastery of Iviron or Iveron (ივერთა მონასტერი, iverta monast'eri; Μονή Ιβήρων, Monḗ Ibḗrōn) is an Eastern Orthodox monastery in the monastic state of Mount Athos in northern Greece.

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Kalamatianos

The Kalamatianós (Καλαματιανός) is one of the best known dances of Greece.

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Kemençe of the Black Sea

The Kemençe of the Black Sea (Turkish: Karadeniz kemençesi, Greek Pontic kemenche or Pontiaki lyra (Ποντιακή λύρα), Laz Çilili (ჭილილი), or Armenian Qamani (Քամանի) is a bottle-shaped bowed lute found in the Black Sea region of Turkey (Pontus), adjacent Armenian and Georgian peopled lands, as well as in Greece. It is also known as the "kementche of Laz". The name kemençe comes from Iranian Music Instrument Kamancheh.

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Kostas Mountakis

Kostas Mountakis (a.k.a. Μουντόκωστας) (10 February 1926, Alfa in Mylopotamos, Crete – 31 January 1991) was a Greek musician who popularized the traditional music of the island of Crete, primarily with the lyra, the bowed string instrument of Crete and most popular surviving form of the medieval Byzantine lyra.

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Kostas Papadakis

Kostas Papadakis (Kissamos, 1920 – May 2003) was a popular Cretan violinist, famous for playing Cretan folk music.

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Kuşadası

Kuşadası is a resort town on Turkey's Aegean coast, and the center of the seaside district of the same name within Aydın Province.

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Laouto

The laouto (λαούτο) is a long-neck fretted instrument of the lute family, found in Greece and Cyprus, and similar in appearance to the oud.

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Last Words (film)

Last Words (Letzte Worte) is a 1968 short film by Werner Herzog shot in Crete and on the island of Spinalonga.

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Lira da braccio

The lira da braccio (or lyra de bracioMichael Praetorius. Syntagma Musicum Theatrum Instrumentorum seu Sciagraphia Wolfenbüttel 1620) was a European bowed string instrument of the Renaissance.

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Loudovikos ton Anogeion

Loudovikos ton Anogeion (Λουδοβίκος των Ανωγείων) is the performing name of George Dramountanis, a contemporary Greek musician and composer from Crete.

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Lyre

The lyre (λύρα, lýra) is a string instrument known for its use in Greek classical antiquity and later periods.

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Mandolin

A mandolin (mandolino; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick".

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Manos Hatzidakis

Manos Hatzidakis (also spelled Hadjidakis; Μάνος Χατζιδάκις; 23 October 1925 – 15 June 1994) was a Greek composer and theorist of Greek music.

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Mantinada

Mantinades (singular mantinada, Greek: μαντινάδα, μαντινάδες) is the art of musical declamation (recitative) in form of a narrative or dialogue, sung in the rhythm of accompanying music.

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Metre (poetry)

In poetry, metre is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.

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Michael Cacoyannis

Michael Cacoyannis (Μιχάλης Κακογιάννης, Michalis Kakogiannis; 11 June 192225 July 2011) was a Greek Cypriot filmmaker, best known for his 1964 film Zorba the Greek.

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Michalis Kounelis

Michalis Kounelis (December 21, 1928 in Karfiana of Polyrrhnia in the province of Kissamos – September 8, 1999) was a popular Cretan violinist (see Cretan folk music).

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Mikis Theodorakis

Michael "Mikis" Theodorakis (Μιχαήλ (Μίκης) Θεοδωράκης; born 29 July 1925) is a Greek songwriter and composer who has written over 1000 songs.

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Mode (music)

In the theory of Western music, a mode is a type of musical scale coupled with a set of characteristic melodic behaviors.

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Monk

A monk (from μοναχός, monachos, "single, solitary" via Latin monachus) is a person who practices religious asceticism by monastic living, either alone or with any number of other monks.

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Mount Athos

Mount Athos (Άθως, Áthos) is a mountain and peninsula in northeastern Greece and an important centre of Eastern Orthodox monasticism.

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Music of ancient Greece

The music of ancient Greece was almost universally present in ancient Greek society, from marriages, funerals, and religious ceremonies to theatre, folk music, and the ballad-like reciting of epic poetry.

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Music of Greece

The music of Greece is as diverse and celebrated as its history.

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Nikos Kazantzakis

Nikos Kazantzakis (Νίκος Καζαντζάκης; 18 February 188326 October 1957) was a Greek writer.

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Nikos Xilouris

Nikos Xylouris (Νίκος Ξυλούρης; 7 July 1936 – 8 February 1980), nicknamed Psaronikos (Ψαρονίκος), was a Greek composer and singer.

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Ntames

Ntames (ντάμες), is a Cretan folk dance from Rethymno, Greece.

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Oud

The oud (عود) is a short-neck lute-type, pear-shaped stringed instrument (a chordophone in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification of instruments) with 11 or 13 strings grouped in 5 or 6 courses, commonly used in Egyptian, Syrian, Palestinian, Lebanese, Iraqi, Arabian, Jewish, Persian, Greek, Armenian, Turkish, Azerbaijani, North African (Chaabi, Classical, and Spanish Andalusian), Somali, and various other forms of Middle Eastern and North African music.

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Patras

Patras (Πάτρα, Classical Greek and Katharevousa: Πάτραι (pl.),, Patrae (pl.)) is Greece's third-largest city and the regional capital of Western Greece, in the northern Peloponnese, west of Athens.

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Pentozali

The Pentozali or Pentozalis (Πεντοζάλης) is the trademark folk dance of the island of Crete.

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Persian people

The Persians--> are an Iranian ethnic group that make up over half the population of Iran.

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Pidikhtos

Pidikhtos (πηδηχτός), is a Greek folk dance with Cretan origin, dancing in a circle formation.

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Pierre Belon

Pierre Belon (1517–1564) was a French traveler, naturalist, writer and diplomat.

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Piraeus

Piraeus (Πειραιάς Pireás, Πειραιεύς, Peiraieús) is a port city in the region of Attica, Greece.

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Political verse

Political verse (Greek: politikós stíkhos, πολιτικός στίχος), also known as Decapentasyllabic verse (from Greek: dekapentasyllabos, δεκαπεντασύλλαβος, lit. '15-syllable'), is a common metric form in Medieval and Modern Greek poetry.

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Power chord

In guitar music, especially electric guitar, a power chord (also fifth chord) is a colloquial name for a chord that consists of the root note and the fifth.

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Psarantonis

Antonis Xylouris (Αντώνης Ξυλούρης; born September 6, 1942), nicknamed Psarantonis (Ψαραντώνης), is a Greek composer, singer and performer of lyra, the bowed string instrument of Crete and most popular surviving form of the medieval Byzantine lyra.

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Rebetiko

Rebetiko, plural rebetika (Greek: ρεμπέτικο, and ρεμπέτικα respectively), occasionally transliterated as Rembetiko or Rebetico, is a term used today to designate originally disparate kinds of urban Greek music which have come to be grouped together since the so-called rebetika revival, which started in the 1960s and developed further from the early 1970s onwards.

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Rethymno

Rethymno (Ρέθυμνο,, also Rethimno, Rethymnon, Réthymnon, and Rhíthymnos) is a city of approximately 40,000 people in Greece, the capital of Rethymno regional unit on the island of Crete, a former Latin Catholic bishopric as Retimo(–Ario) and former Latin titular see.

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Ross Daly

Ross Daly (born 29 September 1952 in King's Lynn, Norfolk) is a world musician who specializes in music of the Cretan lyra.

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Smyrna

Smyrna (Ancient Greek: Σμύρνη, Smýrni or Σμύρνα, Smýrna) was a Greek city dating back to antiquity located at a central and strategic point on the Aegean coast of Anatolia.

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Souravli

The souravli (σουραύλι; Cretan Greek: θιαμπόλι thiampoli or φιαμπόλι fiampoli) is a Greek folk instrument, a type of a fipple flute made of reed or wood.

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Sousta

Sousta (σούστα) is the name of a folk dance in Cyprus and Crete which is danced in Greece and generally in the Balkans.

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Steel-string acoustic guitar

The steel-string acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar that descends from the nylon-strung classical guitar, but is strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound.

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Syrtos

Syrtos (Συρτός, also sirtos; plural syrtoi; sometimes called in English using the Greek accusative forms syrto and sirto; from the σύρω, syro, "drag "), is the collective name of a group of Greek folk dances.

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Taqsim

Taqsim (تَقْسِيم / ALA-LC: taqsīm; translit, taksim) is a melodic musical improvisation that usually precedes the performance of a traditional Arabic, Greek, Middle Eastern, or Turkish musical composition.

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Thanassis Skordalos

Thanassis Skordalos (Θανάσης Σκορδαλός; born 10 December 1920 – 23 April 1998) was a musician from Crete, noted for playing the lyra, the bowed string instrument of Crete and most popular surviving form of the medieval Byzantine lyra.

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Trade route

A trade route is a logistical network identified as a series of pathways and stoppages used for the commercial transport of cargo.

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Trizalis

Trizalis (τριζάλης), is a Greek folk dance from Crete, Greece, similar to Pidikhtos and is very widespread in the Greek islands.

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Venice

Venice (Venezia,; Venesia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.

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Violin

The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.

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Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog (born 5 September 1942) is a German screenwriter, film director, author, actor, and opera director.

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Yannis Markopoulos

Yannis Markopoulos (Γιάννης Μαρκόπουλος; born 18 March 1939) is a Greek composer.

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Zorba the Greek

Zorba the Greek (Βίος και Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά, Víos kai Politeía tou Aléxē Zorbá, Life and Times of Alexis Zorbas) is a novel written by the Cretan author Nikos Kazantzakis, first published in 1946.

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Zorba the Greek (film)

Zorba the Greek (Αλέξης Ζορμπάς, Alexis Zorba(s)) is a 1964 British-Greek comedy-drama film written, produced, edited, and directed by Cypriot Michael Cacoyannis and starring Anthony Quinn as the title character.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Crete

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