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Various models of the Cretan lyra at the museum of Greek traditional instruments, Athens.
The Cretan lyra (Greek: 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. The Cretan lyra is considered to be the most popular surviving form of the medieval Byzantine lyra, an ancestor of most European bowed instruments.
The Cretanlyra (Greek: Κρητική λύρα) is a Greek pear-shaped, three-stringed bowed musical instrument, central to the traditional music of Crete and other...
territories of the Byzantine Empire), including Greece, Crete (Cretanlyra), Karpathos (Karpathian lyra), Albania, Montenegro, Serbia, Bulgaria (the gadulka),...
luthiers (especially of Cretanlyras and Cretan lutes), and Cretan kentra (clubs for dancing to live Cretan music). Much Cretan music includes the use...
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creutzburgi), the Cretan otter (Lutrogale (Isolalutra) cretensis), and the Cretan shrew (Crocidura zimmermanni), as well as the large terrestrial Cretan owl (Athene...
Ξυλούρης, 7 July 1936 – 8 February 1980), Cretan nickname: Psaronikos (Ψαρονίκος), was a Greek singer, CretanLyra player and composer. Xylouris' music encompassed...
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played in a duo (the one laouto tuned more bass than the other) with the Cretanlyra or with the violin (in Cyprus). Giannis Haroulis Evagoras Karageorgis...
arc where the CretanLyra is the dominant instrument. Kostas Mountakis, is an example of a person of Greek origin who played the Lyra and helped popularise...
Cretan cuisine (Greek: Κρητική κουζίνα) is the traditional cuisine of the Mediterranean island of Crete. The core of the Cretan cuisine consists of food...
Yiorgos Kaloudis (born in 1973) is a Greek cellist and Cretanlyra player. Kaloudis, born in Athens, has roots in a musically inclined family originating...
of Crete where mantinades are performed in accompaniment of the Cretanlyra and Cretan laouto (a stringed instrument resembling lute). The word is derived...
Byzantine lyra, the Pontic lyra, the Constantinopolitan lyra, the Cretanlyra, the lira da braccio, the Calabrian lira, the lijerica, the lyra viol, the...
are the Pontic lyra (Kemenche), which has origins in Byzantine period and it is related closely with the Byzantine lyra and Cretanlyra. Other instruments...
handle lutes. For example: The Byzantine lyra, the Calabrian lira, the Cretanlyra, the lira da braccio, and the lyra viol. "Yoke lutes or lyres". Musical...
instruments were more often used by Christians: there are few cases of Muslim Cretanlyra-players compared to Christians: the very name for that instrument in...
was a Cretanlyra player. Karavitis was born in Aktounta, a small village in the region of Aghios Vasileios, prefecture of Rethymnon in the Cretan State...
popularity. The Cretanlyra is the dominant folk instrument on the island; it is a three-stringed bowed instrument similar to the Byzantine Lyra. It is often...
in King's Lynn, Norfolk) is a world musician who specializes in the Cretanlyra. Although of Irish descent, he has been living on the island of Crete...
(guitar), Terry Wilson (bass), Brannen Temple (drums) and Georgia Dagaki (cretanlyra). On 28 January 2013, Burdon performed on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon...
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main tune is played either on the violin or on the pear-shaped, bowed CretanLyra, to the accompaniment of a Laouto, played not in a melodic but in a more...
of the story. Byzantine lyra: the pear-shaped bowed stringed instrument of the Byzantine Empire. Calabrian lira Cretanlyra: The pear-shaped bowed instrument...
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