The Cretan music is a vivid manifestation of the popular culture of the island. Is inseparable from the spiritual and material life of the Cretans and their companion in various group and solo work, to family-friendly gatherings, the dances, even in hours listened specific route where the mountain of baby walkers.

Cretan music of Crete diairitai into three categories: mantinades, rizitika and tissue - narrative songs.
From the Cretan songs stand the mountain, which is purely a creation of local residents of Madara in Western Crete. These songs are unique to the type and style. Primitive member of the somewhat melancholy, poetry masterpieces are truly meaningful to concentrate and severe Doric style. The most common but popular song of Crete are the serenades, which is a popular poetic genre in the entire island. The couplets are improvised couplet with diverse content, usually erotic / Unlike the mountain, the serenades reflect a more cheerful, but often philosophical view of life. The composition is really axiothamasti because within two 15syllavous verse couplets each containing a complete sense.