Mantinades was an entertainment app developed by nkdevelopment. It was removed from Google Play Apr 12, 2024 and is no longer available for download.
Download Statistics
Mantinades had been downloaded 550 times before it became unavailable.
User Ratings
Mantinades was rated 4.94 out of 5 stars, based on 32 ratings.
App Information
Mantinades cost $0.99 to download. The APK download size was 946.14 kB. The last available version was 2.15. The last update was on March 8, 2014.
Technical Requirements
Mantinades required Android 2.2+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Everyone. The app had been available on Google Play November 2012.
Description
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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