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Cretan music and dance vibrate across the island of Kriti.

A music unique to these colourful, artistic, and yet rugged people.

Cretan music harnesses a sound that we can call ancient Greek in style, utilising what is known as atonal music.

A three hour show with legendary songs by the world renown artist George Dalaras, with the Cretan virtuoso and vocalist Michalis Tzouganakis, the beautiful.

This study is concerned with participatory musical performances of Cretan traditional music in the island of Crete, a practice that is commonly referred to.

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- I heard that Michalis Tzouganakis is playing tonight.

There are influences of Byzantine music, both in the lamenting singing or in the haunting use of drone notes in the instrumentation; giving an eerie, mysterious element. Homer has commented on the beauty and depth of Cretan music and acrobatic dance.

At the root of Cretan music lies the Rizitika, or Root songs, which are simple songs, often performed with basic accompaniment, normally a single instrument.

These are slow in tempo and introspective, covering themes of love, loss or liberation. They are believed to have come to life as far back as Byzantine times, though definitely existed during Venetian and Ottoman domination of the island.

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