The music of the island is influenced also by the Byzantine music.

Following the example of traditional Byzantine music, a continuous ison or drone underlies the work.

Today, few sources and studies exist about Byzantine music on the whole.

Byzantine music is modal and dependent on the sound system.

Along with the monastic duties, this is where he learned iconography and Byzantine music.

Later on he took up Byzantine music.

At the age of nine he started chanting the liturgy in the local church and three years later he began to study Byzantine music.

His first musical influences came from Dimotiká and traditional Byzantine music.

There he taught several musical instruments as well as Byzantine music.

Therefore, Byzantine music remained monophonic and without any form of instrumental accompaniment.