About Mantinades
Mantinades (plural of mantinada) are the most common form of folk song and are widespread across Crete. The Cretan mantinada is a 15-syllable rhyming couplet in Cretan dialect. Each mantinada is complete in itself in...
Mantinades (plural of mantinada) are the most common form of folk song and are widespread across Crete. The Cretan mantinada is a 15-syllable rhyming couplet in Cretan dialect. Each mantinada is complete in itself in spite of its short length, like a limerick. There are however some mantinades used to answer others, in which case their meaning is complementary.
The mantinada is the unique way in which young and old in Crete can express their many and varied emotions: sorrow, joy, hope, desire, love, anger, revenge, nostalgia. Thousands of mantinades have been composed and are still being improvised on every facet of human life. Most are to do with love and romance, but there are also satiric, didactic, teasing couplets or verses on exile, engagement, marriage, everyday life and of course death and losing loved ones.
Mantinades are told at festivals accompanied by the lyre, or on their own in company, at the cafe, in everyday conversation. Most are not written down even in a notebook, and even fewer are published. Many are told and forgotten, but the best are learnt off by heart and passed on by word of mouth.
This application lists hundreds Mantinades (in Greek language). There are totally 1.666 "mantinades" separated in 38 different categories.
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Application name: Mantinades
Last update date: March 2020
Developer: NKdevelopment
Website: nkdevelopment.net
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Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Mantinades since it was posted on our website on 2014-06-13 11:49:59.
The latest version is 2.15 and it was updated on 2024-04-22 12:48:51. See below the changes in each version.
Mantinades version 2.15
Updated At: 2014-03-02
Changes: Version 2.15,2 March 2014,Addition of 101 new "mantinades". Total number of "mantinades": 1.666
Mantinades version 1.8.6
Updated At: 2011-01-29
Changes: Several fixes and updates
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