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| | Rough Guide to: Greece *Enhanced* music CD |
 | | These gave rise to the Byzantine and post-Byzantine instruments such as the pipe organ, tambouras or tanbur — which was adopted by the Arabs and called the oud — and also saz, bouzouki, kanonaki, santur and dulcimer. |
 | | There was also the kodrax, a secular dance from ancient times, out of which tsiftetefi derived and which St John Chrisostomus lfourth century AOl described as danced with ‘knees bent, buttocks tucked in, hands risen and swirling, the face of a possessed and a glance full of lust’. |
 | | After the death of the ancient world 1529 ADI, ancient Greek music became the basis of Gregorian chant, Persian, Arabic and Byzantine music — the music of the medieval Greeks. |
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