How To Use Cittern In A Sentence
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The sitter was a musical lady who sang and played the cittern, which she holds, and the viola da gamba, the instrument hanging in the background.
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At Gubbio, the cittern is depicted alongside the architect's set square/level, the hourglass, and divider, and directly beneath the term ingenioq, implying that one's natural talent (s) should be guided by discipline and right pleasure. back
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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Urania is represented by the armillary sphere, Euterpe by flutes, Thalia by the rebec, Melpomene by the hunting horn, Terpsichore by the cittern, Erato by the jingle ring, and Polyhymnia by the organ.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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He also gave to "James Sands, my apprentice, the some of forty shillings and a citterne, a bandore, and a lute, to be paid and delivered unto him at the expiration of his terme of yeres in his indentur of apprenticehood.
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Associated with Venus as well as Terpsichore, the cittern was strung with metal wire to ensure reliable tuning for impromptu use. 247 With their wood paneling, one can imagine that the studioli offer resonant settings for listening to music, which should be counted among the duke's activities in the Urbino studiolo.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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Some of the tunes are lute duets and trios, but most of the music is for a mixed consorta collection of lutes, viols, recorders, and flutes, and wire-strung citterns and bandoras.
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But as soon as the six musicians began to play, pure beauty arose from the wondrously cacophonic and exotic noises of lute strumming, recorder tuning, cittern plucking, and crumhorn adjusting.
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Viols, rebecs, citterns, lutes, and wooden flutes help.
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An early music specialist came to my college and we formed a "broken consort" of unlike instruments (lute, bandora, cittern, viola da gamba, and flute,) to rehearse and perform a concert of Elizabethan music.
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The Cittern, a Renaissance instrument that may be a descendent of the citole, is equipped with metal strings.
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Of uncertain origins, he was one of the community of émigré musicians who made an itinerant orchestral career in Britain, playing a variety of wind and string instruments, the fortepiano, and the cittern.
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It will feature a true English consort of flute, violin, viols, cittern, lute, bandore and voices performing music by William Byrd, Thomas Morley, John Dowland and others.
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Urania is represented by the armillary sphere, Euterpe by flutes, Thalia by the rebec, Melpomene by the hunting horn, Terpsichore by the cittern, Erato by the jingle ring, and Polyhymnia by the organ.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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Depends on the instrument; my small-bodied Doyle cittern (25.5 "SL) is very" jangly "-- even the lower courses.
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The only plan we had was to base the album more around the tinkles - the wee guitars, cittern, banjo and mandolin - instead of having lots of flutes and fiddles playing tune bits in the middle of songs.
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The cittern appeared to Lycaelon's eyes like some sort of giant, misshapen lute-flat on both sides, its sound box pulled into a sort of peculiar sand-glass shape.
Tran Siberian
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I am certain that this 'cittern' is a lovely instrument, cherished in your homeland.
Tran Siberian
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She's accompanied here by some cracking musicians, including Cunningham himself on piano, cittern and whistles, with Ed Boyd's deft guitar and the bodhrán of Mark Maguire.
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Many top players use his hammered dulcimers, and though he's made cymbaloms, citterns, mandolins and the world's only Renaissance Banjo, hammered dulcimers are still mostly what he builds.
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Consistent with Ficino's recommendations, a drawing by Carpaccio suggests that many (if not all) of the instruments represented in the studioli were likely performed therein, including those instruments bearing connotations of the "music of the spheres," such as the clavichord, organ, and lute. 246 Other instruments, like the cittern found at Gubbio, were as readily available in a tavern as in a princely studiolo.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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Other variations on the cittern are the bandore, a bass instrument.
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There were violas and recorders of various shapes and sizes, plus a lute, a cittern and a curvy wind instrument called a crumhorn.
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He is also a luthier, having constructed countless lutes, bandoras and citterns for many of Europe's string-pluckers.
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One of the commonest consorts in the Elizabethan period was the combination of treble viol or violin, flute or recorder, bass viol, lute, cittern, and bandora, for which Morley wrote his Consort Lessons in 1599.
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The girls are playing appropriate instruments of the period, such as the viola da gamba, cittern, dulcimer, rebec, clarion, viola d'amore and virginal, but their brand of beauty is strictly 20th century.
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The Baltimore Consort uses a variety of instruments - lute, viol, flute, cittern, early guitar, rebec, recorder, crumhorn and bandore - and vocals of medieval and Renaissance music.
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Urania is represented by the armillary sphere, Euterpe by flutes, Thalia by the rebec, Melpomene by the hunting horn, Terpsichore by the cittern, Erato by the jingle ring, and Polyhymnia by the organ.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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One of the commonest consorts in the Elizabethan period was the combination of treble viol or violin, flute or recorder, bass viol, lute, cittern, and bandora, for which Morley wrote his Consort Lessons in 1599.
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His guitar may be a crutch but is an awfully artful one, akin to a medieval minstrel's cittern accompanying a sung ballad.
Poet, Prophet and Puzzle
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The Council regrets, we cannot permit you to sell this ... 'cittern' here.
The Outstretched Shadow
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Viols, rebecs, citterns, lutes, and wooden flutes help.
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The Council regrets, we cannot permit you to sell this" 'cittern' here.
Tran Siberian
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Wire strings not only were used on guitars, mandoras, and bass lutes, but gave rise to a whole new family of string instruments, which included zithers, citterns, the Irish harp, psaltery, clavichord and others during the 15th and 16th centuries.