Although the tradition of art music was based on the systems of Ancient Greek and Byzantine music, the development of polyphony in the West had no effect over the Byzantine and post-Byzantine music that blindly followed their own tradition of monophony. Ecclesiastic music did not employ musical instruments, while in “social” music the instruments would frame the melody (see chapter on Byzantine Music).

Greece’s sole representative of renaissance music is Francisco Leontaritis (~1518 - ~1572) Archive from Chandakas (Heraklion), Crete who mostly composed masses, motets and madrigals.
More information on Leontaritis:

• Κοσμά Βίδου, Ο άγνωστος Λεονταρίτης, εφημ. Το Βήμα, Νέες Εποχές (Kosmas Vidos, The unknown Leontaritis, "To Vima" newspaper, Nees epoches)