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  2. History of lute-family instruments - Wikipedia

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    The lute player either improvises ("realizes") a chordal accompaniment based on the figured bass part, or plays a written-out accompaniment (both music notation and tabulature ("tab") are used for lute). As a small instrument, the lute produces a relatively quiet sound. Medieval lutes were 4- or 5-course instruments, plucked using a quill as a ...

  3. Lute - Wikipedia

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    The lute is used in a great variety of instrumental music from the Medieval to the late Baroque eras and was the most important instrument for secular music in the Renaissance. [3] During the Baroque music era, the lute was used as one of the instruments that played the basso continuo accompaniment parts.

  4. Gittern - Wikipedia

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    Unlike the sharp corner joining the body to the neck seen in the lute, the gittern's body and neck either joined in a smooth curve or straight line. The sickle, or occasional gentle arc pegbox, made an angle with the neck of between 30 and 90 degrees. Unlike the lute, most pegboxes on gitterns ended in a carving of a human or animal head.

  5. Luthier - Wikipedia

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    Amati was originally a lute maker, but turned to the new instrument form of violin in the mid-16th century. He was the progenitor of the Amati family of luthiers active in Cremona, Italy until the 18th century. Andrea Amati had two sons. His eldest was Antonio Amati (circa 1537–1607), and the younger, Girolamo Amati (circa 1561–1630 ...

  6. Ian Harwood - Wikipedia

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    A brief history of the lute. Richmond: Lute Society. ISBN 978-0-905655-00-0. OCLC 2965786. Harwood, Ian, "A Lecture in Musick, with the Practice thereof by Instrument in the Common Schooles, Mathew Holmes and Music at Oxford University c.1588-1627", Lute Society Journal vol. 45 pp. 1–70 (2005)

  7. Rosette (music) - Wikipedia

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    A rosette (from French, meaning little rose), rose, or knot, [1] in the context of musical instruments, is a form of soundhole decoration. The name originated during the medieval period, as a comparison with church windows which were called rose windows.

  8. Guitarra morisca - Wikipedia

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    The Guitarra morisca or Mandora medieval is a plucked string instrument.It is a lute that has a bulging belly and a sickle-shaped headstock. Part of that characterization comes from a c. 1330 poem, Libro de buen amor by Juan Ruiz, arcipestre de Hita, which described the "Moorish gittern" as "corpulent". [1]

  9. List of European medieval musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    Medieval harp (Medieval form of the modern harp) Harp from Theodore Psalter, 11th century A.D., Byzantine Empire: Lute [17] Rebec or rebab (left), lute right. Lyra Byzantine lyra Cretan lyra: Fiddle, related to rebec Later versions of the Cretan lyra, from a museum in Athens. Circa 900 – 1100 A.D. Lyra on a Byzantine ivory casket, Museo ...

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