Title: Cretan Music
Subtitle: Unraveling Ariadne’s Thread
Author: Maria Hnaraki
Publications: Kerkyra publications ltd.
Time Edition: 2007
Dimensions: 22.3 x 22.3cm. Pages:200
Soft cover
Engraved
Color
«Crete is an island where many people from different countries, cultures and religions have lived and have left their traces. So isn’t music in Crete today a product of all these mixtures and cultural elements?» Dr. Maria Hnaraki’s self-posed question is answered in the affirmative as the author, takes the reader on a journey of discovery through the five steps – or five chapters – of this book, constructed in the spirit of the traditional pendozalis five-step dance. Writing in an intensely personal style, bringing into her narrative gods and heroes from Greek mythology and literature as well as present-day musicians and performers, Hnaraki succeeds in evoking both the rich history and the vibrant present of Cretan music.
