page_title: Music of Crete
section_title: Musicians
hierarchical_section_title: Music of Crete / Cretan musicians / Musicians
caption_attribution_description: Ross Daly in Archanes Crete
context_page_description: The music of Crete, also called kritika, refers to traditional forms of Greek folk music prevalent on the island of Crete in Greece. Cretan traditional music includes instrumental music, a capella songs known as the rizitika, "Erotokritos," Cretan urban songs, as well as other miscellaneous songs and folk genres.
  Historically, there have been significant variations in the music across the island. Some of this variation continues today and in the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries has received greater attention by scholars and the mass media. Nonetheless, over the course of the twentieth-century, the sense of a single, island-wide Cretan musical tradition emerged.
  Although much Cretan music remains consciously close to its folk roots and an integral part of the fabric of many Cretans' everyday lives, it is also a vibrant and evolving modern, popular tradition that involves many professional and semi-professional musicians, numerous regional record companies and professional distributors, professional luthiers, and Cretan kentra.
context_section_description: Ross Daly, lyra
  Alekos Karavitis, lyra
  Psarantonis, lyra, mandola
  Antonis Papadakis (Kareklas), lyra
  Giorgis Koutsourelis
  Michalis Kounelis
  Antonis Martsakis, violin
  Kostas Mountakis, lyra
  Stelios Petrakis, lyra, laouto
  Giorgos Xylouris, laouto
  Nikos Xilouris
  Thanasis Skordalos, lyra
  Kostis Moudatsos
  Loudovikos ton Anogeion, mandolin
caption: Ross Daly
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