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The traditional rhyming couplets – usually love songs – are typical of Crete’s rich oral tradition, which comes to the fore in local festivals.
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The pentozalis’s sprightly rhythms are reminiscent of the jigs and reels of Irish and Scottish folk music.
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The pidiktos , a dance from eastern Crete, involves great athletic leaps and bounds.
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The Greek version of the urban blues, brought to Greece by refugees from Asia Minor in the 1920s, is popular with young Cretans.
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The rizitiko is Crete’s warrior dance, in which male performers act out scenes of combat and heroism.
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The hammer dulcimer or santouri is another import from Asia Minor into Greece, where it was not widely played until the 1920s, though Alexis Zorbas, hero of Zorba the Greek , claimed playing the santouri among his many talents.
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The dignified siganos for groups of men and woman is a dance for any festival.
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A flirtatious dance for the young, and a favourite at weddings and festivals.
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Performed all over Greece, the syrtos is the best known of the Greek circle dances.
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The voulgari , a Cretan version of the long-necked lute known in Turkey as the saz , was a popular solo instrument in Cretan village music but is rarely heard now.
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