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Folk Songs
Mantineian folk music mainly consists of the songs with meters 6/4, 4/4 and 7/8.These meters are often the building blocks of the Mantineian folk dances: Tsamiko, Syrto, and Kalamatiano respectively. The meter 7/8, is the most common meter found in the province.

Folk Musical Instruments
There were many musical instruments in ancient Greece, however, daouli and karamoutza are the most common instruments existed in the villages of the province Mantineia. Some regions similar to Chrisovitsi, didn't have these folk instruments. The folk music of Chrisovitsi mostly consisted of vocal songs and the instrument floghera. With the tradition of dance songs sang by the lead dancer in Chrisovitsi, there is no evidence of existance of any folk instruments.

Klephtic Songs
Klephtic songs are about a historical event and the hardships specific villages went through. Klephtic songs are free-meter songs and they can be in chromatic or/and diatonic modes.

Wedding Songs
Wedding songs can differ from village to village and the major steps of weddings are fallowed by music : patinadha is played with daouli and karamoutza announcing the time for the ceromony to the village, "My Venetian Padlock" sang by the bride when her dowry is displayed after the wedding, when going to her future home, a Kandhylian melody is being played, and at the reception "Sitting at this Wedding Table" is sang by the priest for blessing.

Road Songs
Road songs gets its name from the occasion they were sang, which was on the road by the workers who were going back to their home. Unlike Wedding songs, road songs are not different in each village, instead, the dances for the songs do differ with either a Syrto or Kalamatiano. Road songs usually are happy songs that talk about love and nature.

Laments or Mirologhia Songs
Laments are sang often by widows, only women, and include positive thoughts about the deceased in the province of Mantinea. There is not much of a recording of Laments since it is believed to bring death to a loved one of the person who sang it without a reason.