Mantinades free

16 January 2013
Version 1.6
We added new categories and 140 new mantinades from your e-mails..
Thank you again !
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17 Δεκεμβρίου 2012
Happy new year with a new version!
The new version (1.5) contains 230 new "Mantinades" from your e-mails..
Thank you !

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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.

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Works in all API 8 and above Android devices (Android 2.2 and above).

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We are trying to do our best. Please leave positive feedback.
If you encounter any problem please get in touch with us at email: nekdevelopment@gmail.com, because we can not answer at your (public) comments.
Keep in mind that this is a FREE application and some people spent many hours to make this application running at your mobile devices.
Thank you.

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Version: 1.6
Addition of your mantinades (140) and we also added new cateogries.

Version: 1.5
Addition of mantinades that you have send us.

Version: 1.4
Addition of your mantinades that you have send us.

Version: 1.3
Addition of your mantinades that you have send us.

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Application name: Mantinades free
Last update date: January 2013
Developer: NKdevelopment
Website: nkdevelopment.wordpress.com
E-mail: nekdevelopment@gmail.com

Tags: mantinades, mantinades gramma.