Music
This period also witnessed the flourishing of religious and secular music, in which the blending of Byzantine tradition and Western stylistic music is manifest. Musical instruments such as the trompetta and the kladotzymbano were brought to the island from Europe. The fact that most churches in Chandax had an organ is yet another indication of this cultural fusion . The dominant figure in 16th music was Frangiskos Leontaritis.
Illuminated manuscript of "Erotocritos", 1835 (copied by Ionistas, illuminated by Petrakis, Romanian Academy Library, Bucharest)
Church choir and orchestra, 16th century
Score of a work by Frangiskos Leontaritis (Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna)
Cover of the first collection of religious compositions by Frangiskos Leontaritis, 1564 (Museo Civico Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna)
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